Half Price Books reviews

The company does not operate by its own rules. It promotes environmental awareness, but I worked at a location that literally threw thousands of brand new books away over the course of 3 days while moving store locations. There wasn't enough room to put the books in the new store, so instead of donating or recycling them, we threw them all in the garbage. The kicker? When students from the local university began pulling the books out of the dumpster (which only had books in it - we had gotten an extra dumpster just for all the books), our managers called the police on them. Then it started raining later that night. Thousands of brand new books were destroyed. Since the manager of that location now has a better position at a bigger location, I can only assume that this type of behavior is encouraged or rewarded by the company as a whole.

No movement, upper management always looks for ways to write people up to the point that just having a phone outline in your pocket can result in a write up. Pay raises are VERY difficult, and if you had any write up you will not get a raise, but the raises are only ten cents or less anyway. Insurance is expensive, HR is hard to get a hold of, underappreciated for the stressful work you do by customers and upper staff. Do be careful talking with others, if management catches a whiff you'll be pulled into the office and chided and redirected depending. Also, unions are looked at as negative, as is talking about pay disparity.