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Half Price Books reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(718 total reviews)
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Sharon Anderson Wright

64% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Half Price Books has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 718 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Half Price Books employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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718 reviews
2.0
Sep 27, 2019

Not what it once was

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Pros

Great benefits (though they have been drastically cut back), Somewhat flexible hours unless you're on the management team, Yearly raises

Cons

Little/no support for store-level management from district on up, Staff, particularly managers, are VERY overworked and incredibly underpaid, Benefits have been decreasing rapidly, If you are the management team you have little/no flexibility in scheduling, INCREDIBLY DISGUSTING incoming product (cat urine, mold, rat feces, blood), Cutting back on staffing size and increasing workload for high-grossing stores to carry other stores along, Very outdated hardware and software, Little/no training on most changes and updates but no problem citing someone for mistakes, Doesn't understand mitigating circumstances and will fire exemplary employees for being less than 10 minutes late 3 times within 6 months but will keep on employees that have clearly stated they are working the system or that are blatantly rude to customers

1.0
Dec 17, 2018

Don’t do it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Works if you’re smug and equally as ignorant

Cons

There’s no time clock, so let the wage theft commence. Tells employees they can’t pay them better, yet tracks their hours with a paper schedule and dated software that might as well be an abacus. Only one HR department for over 3500 employees so good luck if you have a legitimate grievance (and you will). Company “encourages thinkers,” which is a small nugget of truth, except the company encourages them to leave, so chalk that one up in the BS file (overflowing). Environmental hypocrites, installed a POS system that generates a paper receipt for each time the drawer opens, even if there’s no transaction, happens hundreds of times a day, doesn’t offer to email receipt. Tosses way more books than recycles and lies about it.

1.0
Dec 13, 2018

Never work here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Insurance. Vacation. Sick time. Personal time.

Cons

Everything about this company.

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