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Wonderful and awful - Bookseller I Half Price Books Employee Review

3.0
16 Sept 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Okay benefits, possible quarterly bonuses depending on sales, birthday money, anniversary money to be used in stores. Fifty percent off most merch. Job is straightforward with barely a learning curve. If you're lucky, you change positions every few hours so you're not stuck doing one thing all day. Starting pay rate is 11 an hour, 35 hours for full time.

Cons

No movement, upper management always looks for ways to write people up to the point that just having a phone outline in your pocket can result in a write up. Pay raises are VERY difficult, and if you had any write up you will not get a raise, but the raises are only ten cents or less anyway. Insurance is expensive, HR is hard to get a hold of, underappreciated for the stressful work you do by customers and upper staff. Do be careful talking with others, if management catches a whiff you'll be pulled into the office and chided and redirected depending. Also, unions are looked at as negative, as is talking about pay disparity.

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5.0
23 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great staff, awesome benefits and discount

Cons

Not much of anything really

4.0
4 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great coworkers. Get quarterly bonus checks. Not a super hard job.

Cons

Mangement is kinda iffy and they really require you to do a lot more work than you're paid for.

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