The Mine reviews

If you are looking for a good company that rewards people fairly, based on effort, hard work, and skill, keep looking elsewhere. Nothing matters at this company except fake value. Favoritism wins out over merit, every time, hands down. The other main issue this company has is that they treat all employees the same, like robots. Everything is super rigid and strict. For example, all employees, regardless of education, skill, or experience start at the same pay rate of $12/hr. All the raises are uniform as well, usually about $1-2/hr more a year. I lost my motivation to try hard pretty quickly, since my raise was the same no matter what I did or didn't do. You must clock in and out for lunch. If you go a little over (or under) working 40 hours a week your manager will be asked to speak with you. You get 10 vacation/sick days total, but not all at once. Days are earned, paycheck to paycheck. You earn about 3.5 hours every two weeks. It makes planning time off difficult for obvious reasons. And the paperwork involved...Oy Vey! Also, everyone comes in sick because they don't want to waste PTO. ATG Stores also makes it clear that they owe you nothing. You don't even get a parking spot when you start. Even though they are located in the suburbs, with parking to spare, new employees are asked to park on the street. There are empty lots all around but I guess the owner doesn't want to pay for more spots? Eventually, when your name is up on "the list" (that no one can see), you get a parking pass. It took me a year to get mine. Even after I got my pass I was resentful about the situation. Little gestures go a long way. After 3 years of employment I feel abused. I've been"asked" to do it all. I was even asked to participate in closing the company's showroom. A process that involved me helping clean and move heavy items and knock down drywall. I am a small woman, not very strong. I was hired to work at a computer. This was not in the job description and I was not compensated extra. Not professional. Not O.K.

Management lacks leadership skills. Very little direction is given to employees by their managers and the CEO will often request that projects be re-done a different way after they have nearly been completed. On multiple occasions, management has overlooked key details in projects then asked their employees to complete additional projects along with their regular workload in an unreasonable amount of time. Everything seems to be about shifting blame and covering your own behind. The salary and benefits are very poor - far below average salaries for similar positions in the region. Overall the company feels very cheap. There are no sick days; if you're vomiting, volcanoing diarrhea out your butt and can't come in, it comes straight out of your PTO (only 10 days a year.) They lure new hires in with promises of multiple $5,000 raises. After accepting your offer, they reveal that you aren't guaranteed to receive the full $5,000 and expect the raises to be more like 2-3k.