Pros
Menards was a great part time college job for the 5 years that I worked there. My managers were able to work around my school schedule and gave me the time off that I needed for school. Also my immediate managers were great to work with. I was able to talk them freely about anything and they did not pressure me to force sales on customers that were unwilling to spend more money.
Cons
As I said before this is a great COLLEGE JOB and I never considered working there full time or being a department managers for the following reasons. The company takes complete advantage of all of there department managers in every way possible. First, the company makes there managers work very long and stressful weekend hours every other weekend if there are only two managers in the department. Second, the company deducts money from each of the department managers yearly bonus amounts, but never provides a complete breakdown or reasons why money was taken away from there bonus. Third, the health benefits that they provide is pitiful and expensive! The company is really cheap when it comes to health benefits because they expect their full time and management employees to pay a large portion of there health benefits while the company contributes a tiny percentage for medical coverage. Fourth, the hours are horrible! You are working days, nights and weekends. This maybe fine for a college student but once you finish school and are looking to have a life outside of work it makes it hard.