Hard work for little pay - Merchandise Coordinator HomeGoods Employee Review

3.0
May 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Non management Coworkers are nice, you don't need a gym membership due to all of the walking and lifting you do daily, and sometimes they put free snacks in the break room.

Cons

The pay is awful for the amount of work you have to do. You go home feeling exhausted everyday. As a full-time associate (coordinator), you manage pretty much half of the store while being micromanaged and harassed by a store manager all day. I don't even make $15 an hour and have the responsibilities of someone who would make $5-$10 more per hour elsewhere. We'll have 3 people scheduled to process a 1500 piece truck, and they're expected to unload and have everything ready for the shelves in 5 hours. There's no communication between members of management, so you constantly get conflicting info. And forget about having a life outside of work, your schedule can change with no warning except an alert from the schedule app

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Decent coworkers, easy tasks, fine hours

Cons

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