Not for the career minded - Department Manager Menards Employee Review

3.0
1 Dec 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you're part time, you have the ability to have a very flexible schedule. Great place to work for younger job seekers.

Cons

Once you become full time, schedule fluctuates, unless you're buddy with the department manager. If you're unfortunate enough to become a department manager, there are weekly (Fridays) management meetings where they go over sales and how your department is doing. If you can make the projections great, if not, expect to take a ton of heat. Also the pay horrible and the only way to be eligible for a raise (usually 15 cents for the year!) one must pass a competency test twice a year. After about 8 years or so you'll top out the pay scale and won't be eligible for any more raises. Lastly, when they DID have a cost of living increase, you had to pass the test to receive it and it was only worth an additional 25 cents an hour.

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Cons

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Pros

A few of the people are nice to work with.

Cons

A store manager who talks down to employees like they're children (and apparently gets promoted for it). A store manager who acts like employees are idiots for calling him to ask questions. Raises are pathetic. Understaffed because the store manager won't allow enough labor hours to do the job, particularly on Sundays when there's a lot of freight.

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