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Took them forever to get rid of horrible manager at Airport location. - Generalist II Powell's Books Employee Review

3.0
Aug 30, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The Union and access to borrow from their system up to 30 books at a time.

Cons

It took everyone from our store to complain to the Union before HQ would listen. We also had an assistant manager that hired people who were ill-fitted to the job. One new hire didn't know how to use a computer and the other was caught smoking in the bathroom.

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Pros

Employee loan program, employee discount, co workers and customers.

Cons

There is a definite feeling of bitterness from upper management that they have to deal with a union workplace. I’ve worked with doctors and high level administrators in my other positions and my Powell’s co workers were some of the most intelligent people I’ve ever worked with. It’s really too bad that upper management did not seem interested in taking the advice of their frontline workers more into consideration.

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