If you can put up with the BS, the hourly wage to start full time is great. Management does not know what they are doing or what to do. Rules and regulations change on a daily basis. It's a tier effect, so when a store does really good at saving money by having the employees currently on payroll work like slaves instead of hiring enough people to do the job or bringing in the ones on their days (more than one day) off, then the Managers, District Managers, Regional Managers and so on up the line get tremendous bonuses at the end of the year. If the employees are lucky, David Green and sons will give us a $100 bonus for each year we work there, however, employees don't stay longer than 10 years so not sure if there is a cap on the employee bonus. Employees know for a fact that there is not a cap for the upper management. Often managers have no rhyme or reason to the way they do the weekly schedules. If you work more than 5 hours you get a 30 minute lunch break, if you work 6 or more hours, you get a 15 minute break in morning and a 30 minute break in afternoon, however employees are not sure what the legality is if you work from 8:00 am to 9:00 p.m., there is two 15 minute breaks, one in the morning, one in the afternoon with only a 30 minute break for lunch, no dinner break. ANY ONE OUT THERE KNOW THE FEDERAL LAW ABOUT THIS?? Thursdays are truck days so all department heads except Fabrics and Custom Framing have to off-load the trucks, then after putting all of the shipment up, these same department heads have to handle their own garbage, taking to the back -- trash bags, empty boxes, repack boxes, and plastic totes. There is however 4 or 5 stockmen working on these days, but they either help out in the larger departments or in seasonal or are supposed to be unloading the send out boxes and assembling the furniture. By the way the stockmen leave anywhere between 3 and 5 o'clock; the manager and co-manager leaves at 5 o'clock as well. Friday mornings will find 3 to 5 department heads in the store at the time of opening, however, they will be in the back unpacking the send out boxes that came in on the truck on Thursday, no one by the way is out on th floor during the first 4 to 5 hours of the day. CAN WE SAY "HELLO SHOPLIFTERS"!! Then these 3-5 department heads will leave around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and only one department head with maybe if they are lucky two part-time people will be working in taking care of the customers on Friday evenings. The reversal is on Saturdays, there will be only one department head (often part-timers don't work on Saturday mornings) on the floor having to take care of 8 departments, zoning 8 departments, answering all calls for these 8 departments, helping customers in each of these 8 departments and answering questions from the cashiers. Then about 1 o'clock, you will have 3-5 department heads come in to work the evening shift. Let's not even talk about when you are sick, or have hurt yourself on the job. Suffice it to say, there is no workers compensation in the great State of Texas, there is no sympathy from the managers, in fact if you don't do your job when you are sicker than a dog, they get mad.
