Would you like to work for an employer that violates labor laws and doesn't care about employees? Work for Michaels! - Sales Associate Michaels Employee Review

2.0
Nov 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The only positive thing that came from my experience with this company was that I quit in order to go back to college and finish my degree. My awful experience here strongly motivated this important life change.

Cons

We were made to work off the clock, with the understanding that if we made a complaint to the relevant authorities, we would be out of a job. There were rarely enough people scheduled in a shift and it was often impossible to get everything finished that we were supposed to do. (This is when we would be told to go clock out and keep working.) Management would consistently schedule me on the only day I had to have off. I made it clear before I was hired that I needed Tuesdays off for frequent doctor appointments due to ongoing medical issues. Lo and behold, I would frequently get scheduled and then yelled at when I kept explaining to them it wasn't possible for me to ever work on Tuesdays. Zero sick days. I had the stomach flu and had started throwing up about halfway through an 8 hour shift. I was told I couldn't go home. Having to continue working that day as sick as I was, was inhumane. I ended up handing in my two weeks notice shortly after.

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5.0
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Pros

Benefits and the people there.

Cons

It was far away from me.

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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