Decent Paying job, but hours are not beneficial - Department Manager Menards Employee Review

2.0
Jan 21, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Menards is a decent paying job depending on the location and position within the company. If you are an Assistant Manager or Department Manager in the metro land area, the pay and bonuses are pretty good. For full-timers or part-timers, you can have a flexible schedule depending on your manager.

Cons

Assistant Managers and Managers are on a set schedule. On a regular basis, you would have to work to around 10 - 11:00pm, then the next day come into work at around 6 - 6:30am. There isn't any room for a life outside of work. There will be many days you will be understaffed, where it would only be the Department Manager and a part-timer. The Store Manager I worked for would snap at team members in front of "guests". Your management reviews are based on supervisors, other managers, and the employees working in your department. So, it usually boils down to a popularity contest, instead on job performance.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

A few of the people are nice to work with.

Cons

A store manager who talks down to employees like they're children (and apparently gets promoted for it). A store manager who acts like employees are idiots for calling him to ask questions. Raises are pathetic. Understaffed because the store manager won't allow enough labor hours to do the job, particularly on Sundays when there's a lot of freight.

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