started out great... - Sales Associate Michaels Employee Review

2.0
May 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- absolutely love the staff (except for one woman and a manager who likes to tell lies) -was given the birthday coordinator job after 4 months of working, which was cool -good first job, for a while

Cons

My biggest complaint is hours. It is so frustrating when I go to check my schedule and I see that I have another week with only 4-5 hours. It makes me feel underappreciated as an employee who's worked there for 8 months to see that employees who were hired last month get 4x as many hours as me. During inventory a few weeks ago, I got at least 15-25 hours per week, but now that they don't need me for inventory, I get a 4.5 hour shift on a saturday every week. If you work at Michaels, get ready to have as few hours as possible. Oh and say goodbye to planning on having days off because you don't get hours, more than once I've made plans thinking I won't be scheduled on those days and had to cancel because I had to go in for a 4 hour shift. Also, the infraction point system is the most ridiculous system ever. 6 points and you're fired, and you get an entire point if you call out sick or for any reason at all. You can have a note from the doctor and you'd still get the point. The code for the point is SICK-PTUNPAID. It's crazy.

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5.0
Feb 16, 2026
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Pros

Had a really lovely recruiter w/ clear email communication back and forth. Process was a phone screen followed by an interview.

Cons

Interviewers were slightly late to the interview. Lots of technical questions, no leetcode style ones though.

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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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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