Be prepared to take the good with the bad. - Associate Buyer Menards Employee Review

2.0
Feb 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- At stores: Pay is comparable to other retailers, bonuses and premium pay on the weekends is nice. Opportunities for advancement are frequent. - At the General Office: Opportunities for advancement are frequent.

Cons

- Opportunities for advancement grow out of an environment wherein everyone is expendable. Whether you're pushing carts at a store or the Chief Merchant with 33 years invested in the company: One word from John Menard or one guest complaint and it's your last day. This fear of constant, unexplained firings also creates a toxic, fear-based management team. - Pay at corporate is subpar to the industry, even before considering that most of your pay is wrapped up in their 'bonus' structure. With 'bonuses', they still pay 38% less than the industry average. - Zero benefits at corporate. Zero.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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