The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Special Orders Menards Employee Review

1.0
Jun 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible on hours. You need a day off, weekend, a week, just ask the manager and he/she will work with you. The pay is decent, depending on your job market and what region of the country you are in. It could always be worse but always be better. When you live away from a major city or a high tax bracket the money you make is enough to live on. I support myself and another on the, what seems messily pay compared to most standards, but I live comfortably.

Cons

Full time employment means you MUST have open availability. That means you could pull a noon to eleven shift one day and the very next open at five in the morning. Again, the pay... could be better. The folks at the competitor make more than we do in the retail environment. Each year you are able to receive two raises... for ten cents a piece. You max out after nine years at a dollar and eighty cents. Sound worth it? Nope, Menards is a decent place to work when your options are slim or nonexistent but don't expect to make money, just break even.

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Pros

40+ Hours per week of work guaranteed.

Cons

A toxic work environment can lead to termination without warning. Senior management prioritizes their interests and the company’s well-being, often disregarding employees’ rights and legal obligations. HR’s role is to protect senior management and the company, potentially at the expense of employees’ rights. Senior management continually chooses to a blind eye to wrong doing of favored employees, while knowingly prioritizing punishment of lower employees using fabricated policies that aren’t actually within store policy and procedures. Lack of accountability, lack of transparency, and lack of integrity run rampant with in the store and company. Unethical hiring practices, and weaponized incompetence to justify the out right gaslighting of your financial income and incentives. Pay deductions common place.

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