Bayshore hobby lobby- Never ever apply
So I was hired literally a week and a half ago, Ive worked 5 shifts (not counting those bs videos you have to watch for your whole forst “shift”)
Now, I have to add im not a young kid, im over 30 years old, have lived on my own but moved back in with my family when my mother had cancer (Shes ok now!!). So anyway-first 2 shifts were 4:30 to close. I Figured wtf? a 3 and a half maybe 4 hour shift? Turns out it takes at least 45 mins to an hour to get out of there. Thats absolutely fine.
my next shift was 1230 to close and it was a truck day. I’ve been trying to figure out how many retail stores I’ve worked for and it’s at least five or six. I have to tell you, I’ve never seen a more chaotic, dangerous, unorganized, and just dumbest way to unload a truck unless your main goal is to lose as much profit as possible. Employees and manager literally dumping boxes onto the table, breaking literally 20 Christmas mugs out of maybe the 180 we got today, and that’s not to mention the more expensive stained glass stuff that seemed to be chipped every time. Let me get to the real BS though.
when I was hired, I was told the first week I’d be shadowing someone and basically just learning the store. Also, I was told that the second week they would start training me on register. Well, that wasn’t true at all, also I said I’m not interested in the job if I’m going to have to be front end most of the time. It seems as if every day besides a truck day I will be mostly front end. The store is so frustrating, and I think two of the biggest reasons are because it’s so unorganized, they’ll have the exact same products or the exact same type of products in two completely different spots of the store. I don’t know if every hobby lobby is like this, but there are no aisle numbers, so it makes it extremely difficult to try to describe to a customer where something is. Also, of course, you probably heard that Hobby lobby doesn’t scan any products, you literally have to enter every price and quantity manually. Either the CEO or his douche son said this was to encourage more interaction between customer and employee. Is that not a joke? It’s like-let’s make our employees have to pay five times more attention while ringing someone up instead of letting them just scan each item, be able to interact with the customer a little bit besides just asking them do you want this wrapped or do you want a bag? Not to mention, they wonder why it always seems swamped in the store. Well when it takes at least three times as long to ring someone up, of course that’s gonna happen.
Today was the final straw though. I pulled into the parking lot at 8:56, saw two coworkers outside so I rang the bell and eventually we got let in. I punched in at 8:58, and did what I was instructed to do by the manager always: Go to front of store and look at what dept youll be in that day and when your breaks are. nothing was written, so I went and asked the CSM. apparently we got a seasonal truck with all Christmas stuff, so I walked to the back room. I looked at my phone and it said 902, when I entered the back, it may have been 903. As I walk in, my little pots of a manager starts going off saying I missed the “Morning Meeting”…….. excuse me motherfucker? did you forget that the shifts I’ve worked have been multiple 430 to close and a 1230 to close? I had never opened in my life and had never been told jack shit about a morning meeting. How much of a fucking meeting could it have been if I walked back there at 9:03 maybe 9:04 (although I punched in at 8:58….Im not psychic, I was told by almost every worker that trucks come on Friday, very rare that they come on a different day).
This floored me. I immediately got a little loud and said what? What are you talking about, what the hell is a morning meeting? This is my first time getting here before noon, was I expected to just know there would be a five minute morning meeting? So I brought up to him how I was so excited to work and get back to retail, but this isnt retail (unless we went back in time to 1996 when I was 3 or 4.) I told him I cant agree with the CEOs policy on LGBTQ+ considering my youngest sister is a lesbian. I also know about the 3m dollar fine when they smuggled religious artifacts, and that they limit contraceptives to women because they still consider 4 types of them a type of abortion. he says he knows nothing about it, and I said I’m sure you don’t. It goes way above your level. It’s your bosses bosses bosses boss basically. Long story short I said I’d keep doing the five hour closing shifts, or honestly any six hour shift, but I’m not interested in these 11 to close or 12 to close, especially these next few weekends close will probably be close to 930. You might think oh well you could get overtime… When you get hired at minimum wage and at your last job you were making $20.50 an hour, time and a half doesn’t really mean shit if it’s two or three hours.
The douche bag then tried to tell me if I don’t stay another two weeks I couldn’t use him as a reference because it would go down as abandonment of job. My response to him was-why would I ever use you as a reference anyway? I literally made it through just over five miserable shifts, why the hell would I ever use you as a reference? Just so the next job I get will be able to see that I only worked at my last job for three weeks?
I’m sorry I know it’s a long rant. I don’t think they are many if any parents on this sub Reddit looking to get their kids a job, but please please keep them away from this extreme extreme conservative right wing store. Everywhere you go they try to shove their beliefs down your throat, they act like they had these unbelievable cells when really it’s just crap and that’s what they’d be normally priced that anyway. If the Christmas stuff for 50% off right now was normal price, we would maybe sell 15 to 20% of it. Also, learning a cash register that I don’t believe is used anywhere in retail nowadays is just gonna make it harder if they get a better retail job offer that actually has a proper point of sales system.
Also, I remember my first retail job. It was at Petco, and I worked there for about six months, my ex-girlfriend, who was still my girlfriend at the time had her little sister die overnight by choking on her own vomit, they believe it was a mixture of alcohol and Xanax, and possibly a very small amount of oxycodone too. within about three months after that, unfortunately we broke up and this led to a six-month depression. Don’t worry I’m fine now this was back in 2015 2016ish. It took me about 2 1/2 to 3 months to have a very good grasp on where everything was supposed to go, and if somebody was looking for something you could simply say yes we have those aisle seven on the right hand side. At Hobby lobby Bayshore, you have to describe to the best of your ability where the item they’re looking for might be, and knowing that they don’t know where any section is means you can’t just say oh if you go back to the crap section, it’s two aisles to the left, or oh it’s the last aisle before the party section… You literally feel like you’re giving someone directions back in the mid to late 90s when GPS systems were hardly owned by anybody and sometimes at a random light or parking lot, someone will ask you for directions. Trying to find the right way to describe it to someone who knows next to nothing about the store can be extremely difficult.
Put fucking aisle numbers up with signs, and obviously add what’s in the goddamn aisle next to the number on the signs, and stop being cheap jay oh double-yous (joos) and pay for a proper point of sale system. They dont even use RF guns, theres like 3 Ipads that are only used by co-managers, CSMs, and Framing Department head.
How the fuck is this store still around?