Very Good- except for the pay, the pay scale at Michaels stinks!!! - Floral Designer Michaels Employee Review

4.0
Jul 20, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the time the customers are wonderful to work with. I enjoy my position and the freedom I have to do my job without too much supervision. I love getting to merchandise the store to make it appealing to both the customers and the employees. Most of the employees I work with are wonderful and supportive of each other. In spite of all that is going on with the "STORE OF THE FUTURE" changes, the management has been very helpful, and seems to be doing a great job in helping us to adjust to the changes. Or product selection is incredible, classes are pretty good, and for the most part working at Michaels is fun. I have recommended emploment at Michaels to quite a few people inlcuding family members since I have been employed.

Cons

Number one complaint is the pay!!! It's lousy. I have many years experience in my field, and am not being compensated any where near what I bring to the company. I also would like to be able to worship on Sundays at church with my family, but Michaels FORCES any full time employee to work at least every other weekend or else they are not guaranteed full time. I have tried to get them to let me work every Saturday and have Sundays off, but they won't do it. My other specific complaint is that full time is supposedly 35 hours and above, but they schedule you for these times and then take out all your 1/2 hour lunch breaks which actually takes 2.5 hours off your supposed full time hours, while the paper schedule says one thing, the reality is different.

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Pros

Environment is beautiful and safe, Team is very helpful,

Cons

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2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Some great co-workers, employee discount, on site office benefits including a gym and cafe for breakfast/lunch, full suite of employee benefits at reasonable prices

Cons

Ridiculous amount of stress. Retail in general is often stressful but the amount of stress at Michaels is unnecessary and over the top. Constant last-minute changes by leadership to creative, promotions, products, and any other kind of changes. Things will be finalized and signed off on and delivered, and somebody will make a change at the last minute and things are constantly having to be redone. People are worn down and worn out. It’s the highest turnover rate of any place I’ve worked in retail at the corporate office. I’ve seen people take jobs and be gone within weeks. Leadership in some departments are extremely micromanaging and controlling even with employees that are tenured and have multiple years of experience. The stress level for both tenured and new employees is very high. Projects get discussed over and over and over again, decisions are made and then revisited again after decisions were made making delivery late and causing people to work unnecessarily in order to fix things that could’ve been done correctly the first time. The company tries really hard to make the workplace fun and offer activities, motivation, and incentives. Unfortunately they don’t offset what the environment is like working inside with some of the teams and expectations to actually deliver the work. Would not recommend.

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