Party City Reviews

I have been working at Party City full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Pay is very resonable and great potential to advance within.

Cons – Alot of the store staffs and management are unprofessional.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to get back to the basics and get in touch with what is going on in the stores again.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Party City full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits, Salary, Working in a party store, Great Employees. Not hectic between Christmas and Thanksgiving. Halloween Season is great. Fun Place to work.

Cons – Mystery Shops, Not enough payroll hours, Managers focus more on Merchandising instead of Managing the Store. Having to push for emails because need to make percentage or have to do corrective action on employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to employees when addressing concerns.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Party City part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible schedule (at times)
30% employee discount
Major holidays off (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter)

Cons – Lack of communication between employee's and management
The Euless store is a training store (conflicting orders from trainees and managers)
Low pay

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate with your employees
Adjust starting wages for new hires compared to current employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Party City part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – It's a job in a horrible economy.

Cons – You make min. Wage even after being here for five years I only get a five cent raise a year. No health care. Management is a joke. Corporate is an even bigger joke with their consistent policy changes that make no sense. In fact corporate does nothing but make the place run harder. No vacation time for associates. Hours are only sort of flexible meaning if your whole store consists of students then it becomes your problem not the managers. They hire managers who can't manage their way out of a wet paper bag let alone communicate. Constantly understaffed. You are expected to work for minimum pay and do three cashiers worth of work and a mangers job on top of it. And best part is, they don't care because there is another high school kid lined up ready to take the job that you need to barely scrape by with. And let's not forget we can only work up to 25 hours max now because they don't want to give us health insurance.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to communicate. By communicate I don't mean gossiping in the back room. Learn to run a store. Learn how to tell corporate you are going to put more people on the schedule whether they like it or not. And corporate hire some one who graduated with a business degree will you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Party City full-time

Pros – Strong leadership team. Good people.

Cons – Gets very busy at Halloween.

Advice to Senior Management – need to keep the Canadian HO team.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Party City

Pros – 30% discount
Party store
Interactive environment

Cons – I was currently in Highschool and they were keeping me til 2 in the morning on week nights.
Only minimum pay
Extremely overwhelming season work

Advice to Senior Management – Get better management
Be considerate
Work on organization

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Party City part-time

Pros – Flexible Hours
Full-time employees have access to health insurance

Cons – Bad management. The company seem to hire managers with no people's skills. They don't treat employees in a fair manner. Managers demand respect but are not willing to give it.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to appreciate hard working employees so the company can move forward. It seems that when management wants to fire someone they will give the person too many responsibilities in order to make the employee quit or to find excuses to fire him/her. This has led to a very unprofessional environment which deteriorates the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Party City part-time for more than a year

Pros – I've worked at 2 Party City's. The first one was great and I loved the environment, the people.

Cons – But the second one is terrible. Management doesn't know what they're doing and all the workers are lazy.

Advice to Senior Management – Honestly, they need to fire some people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Party City full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some holidays off if you work for a franchise location, slow at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Cons – No comp time, management made to work and additional 10-20 hours a week...often. Lack of corporate structure. If the area office of your franchise is run by tyrants, they can make your life miserable. Very redundant work routine...hard to achieve a sense of accomplishment. Unnecessary workload.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Party City

Pros – Great employee discount, fun atmosphere, fair pay, reasonable operating hours, fairly laid back about appearance (they allow some piercings and tattoos, uniform is simple)

Cons – (In my experience) I only worked a few hours per week, and although I was hired as seasonal, I was told I would be kept for full time and then very suddenly they changed their minds. It was also very monotonous, as there is generally not heavy customer traffic so most of your day is spent restocking or "straightening".

Advice to Senior Management – Try to add more full-time positions, and communicate better with employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend