Hobby Lobby reviews

Being an Exempt Salaried Manager for Hobby Lobby. They do not tell you when they make you a job offer that you will be required to help at new store openings and help other stores prepare for a CEO visit from David Green. 1. New Store Opening: Leave my family for 21 days and go to another part of the country. Worked from 7am to 11pm every day for 21 days straight. No time off to do laundry, buy groceries (you are forced to eat out every day), work out to be healthy or anything for that matter. 2. CEO Visit: Leave my family for 10 more days and go to another part of the country. Worked again from 7am to 11pm every day for 10 days straight. Again....no time off to do anything. From what other employees have told me, the CEO is only in the store for about 20 minutes. **I have worked in retail for 20+ years and have never worked so hard in my life in a management role. I don't mind working hard and rolling up my sleeves to dig in but this was absolutely redicilous and ludicrous. Hobby Lobby does not give you a bonus or any monetary reward for doing this. They give you $25 per day for food and believe me, you use it everyday to eat and drink. You work on average of 105 hours per week so I think about what this does to my salary on an hourly bases (If I wanted to earn $10 an hour I would work somewhere with no responsibility or stress).

- The hours required to work, 50+, even sometimes hitting 60 - Hard to get any days off if needed for doctor visits, etc... - There is absolutely no regard to anyone having a life outside the store even though they claim they are Christian based - The DM over the market I was in, was a micro manager - The constant fear that there will be a corporate visitor is a weekly occurrence, and so you have to stay later to be ready "just in case" they stop by - Having to close two nights a week even though you have to be there at 7 am, so 7 am to 9 pm ish twice a week