Great Job if you don’t need money - Store Manager Journeys Employee Review

Managers were required to work 45 hour workweeks. Because we work on commission, we were required to work 40 “selling hours” so pre opening and post closing hours in their eyes weren’t work. If your store has a bad audit, the entire team gets fired, as in.. let’s say you have a team member that’s stealing and no one else is aware until after the audit… the company doesn’t care because apparently we should have all known that person was stealing so we are now fired. Even the new kid that has been here for two days is now fired and non rehireable. For some reason they find this method reasonable instead of just getting cameras for their stores and be fair to their employees. The commission. Is. Awful. Unless you work at a high volume store, you are barely getting by for a little over half of the year. I was personally getting 4% commission with a 2% store override and a base pay of $385. Given that can vary from store manager to store manager but at least in my district, it was pretty standard. They could care less about work life balance. They expect you to work every single weekend. If you ask for even just one weekend off you get push back. Holiday season is actually a nightmare. You get two lovely 6 day workweeks during thanksgiving and Christmas that are mandatory for all managers. Oh and this isn’t the only time of the year with 6 day workweeks, whenever there’s like a random holiday that falls on a Monday, management will be forced to work for 6 days straight. They don’t care about their employees. Point blank. You can be over performing and killing it in every aspect of your job but the second you stand up for yourself or ask to be compensated fairly, they will let you go without a second thought. I had my district manager look at me and say “you know journeys isn’t the place to go for pay”. Just keep that in mind.