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Owner & Upper Management are killing this company - Inventory Lead Powell's Books Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers & in-store teams were great, union job with guaranteed benefits & contractually bargained raises.

Cons

They laid off over 400 people within 2 weeks of the start of the pandemic and used it as an opportunity to squeeze out loyal, long-term employees.

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5.0
Feb 17, 2025
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Pros

It was fun working there

Cons

Too many books to read

3.0
May 20, 2026
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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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