r/MichaelsEmployees

Holy hell parents are literally the WORST. Gross and Unsanitary beyond belief especially WHEN THERES MULTIPLE PEOPLE BEHIND YOU I HAVE TO CHECK OUT.

Finding myself immensely irritated by the fact that we don’t have the hours to give people, are constantly scolded about payroll for our mediocre checks, can’t pay our employees better, yet the company can hire an actress for a commercial? Cool, cool, coooooool. Anytime I wanna be optimistic about my future here, stuff like this happens and I’m reminded how little we actually matter to the company we help keep running. 🙂‍↔️

I legitimately have never been so stressed in my life. Former replen manager, current whatever the fuck manager. This workload they’re putting on us is disgusting. The folks making these decisions should be ashamed of themselves. I have worked here for 8 years, had stressful moments here and there and wanted to quit, but my love of my job and coworkers kept me pushing through. Now I come in every day to WILDLY unrealistic expectations, no end in sight. I’m one of two people who know how to do resets. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d be sticking my other team member with all the project thread 3 resets, I would’ve walked out weeks ago. I am a great employee and have stayed loyal to this company because I loved my job and the creativity. I’m so stressed that I just go home and sleep. I have zero personal life outside of work. (TMI warning) I started my period a week early because of all the stress. I can’t even wear a tampon to work because I rarely get a bathroom break. There’s a good chance it’ll just be me as MOD and a cashier for much of the day, I can’t leave them on the floor alone to use the restroom.

Either help us or just put us out of our misery and go out of business.

Literally made an account to post this. At the end of my rope. Worked over my last 5 shifts.

Our store is straight up boned when this truck gets here.

Some stuff from july aint built. Multiple people quitting. August barely started. massive massive truck incoming. nowhere to put anything. stockroom drowning in frames that cant go up. full truck from last week hasnt gone up. We get a 3000 item truck in 24 hours.

We're just fucked. I don't know what to do. Just come into work, move boxes until my shift is over?

Anyone know when we’re supposed to get these new aprons they told us about?

At this point, working at Michaels is doing things to my body that medical science probably did not intend. Between the $11-an-hour paycheck, the Halloween freight, the Christmas freight, the mice living rent-free in the bunker drawers, and my arthritis fighting me every step of the way, I swear the stress is making my ball hair grow faster—and believe me, at 83, I already have enough going on down there. My balls are hanging so low they practically need their own employee badge, and somehow Michaels has apparently decided they need additional landscaping. I come home from work looking like I just survived a battle with a forklift, a pallet of Christmas decorations, and a family of mice, only to discover that even my body hair has decided to work overtime. At $11 an hour, the least Michaels could do is provide a weed-whacker. Between my cane, my hand cramps, my back cramps, and now this unexpected increase in downstairs maintenance, I'm beginning to suspect the real employee benefit at Michaels is developing problems nobody asked for. Corporate keeps adding responsibilities, and apparently my body has decided to do the same.

Does anyone know when we can start doing grab bags?

by the grace of god and a lot of overnight shifts (i guess for that one thing i can thank our dm for) we are every so slightly ahead in pogs (by a week) so instead of allowing us to fix everything we ignored while focusing on the resets, we now have to send staff to other stores that are behind on their pogs. was told it was an ask right now but it'll become a demand if they can't get anyone to volunteer. im ALL about helping our neighbors, but we NEVER get help. even during our inventory we had TWO people show up from other stores. yet we are supposed to send people out?? what??

My SM laid off our customer experience manager of more than 12 years when we did the management reorganization. up until the day SM actually laid her off, SM was promising to update her title to sales manager but never getting around to it, even making her fill out some manager expectation survey beforehand to hide that she was on the way out (and we found emails with our DM that confirm this was all planned months in advance).

Today, I’m the other Sales Manager and she is doing the exact same thing in resolving an issue with my newly-eligible benefits, has been accusing me of messing up things that weren’t my responsibility on days I wasn’t even working, and for the first time has actually been interviewing sales managers. So the clock is ticking now before I’m out of here. I’d give almost anything to be out from under SM’s wretched kingdom, but despite having been applying for ages now, I don’t have anything else lined up and my family definitely will need income fast. Just wanted to vent.

Im starting a union.

And yes, I am completely fucking serious.

Who would like to join me?

That includes everyone who has quit or is planning on it.

We don't deserve to be treated like shit for minimum wage.

This mass reset is killing me i cannot wait to be done. Feels like as soon as we can see the finish line it stretches a little more

I don't see Happy Planner on my map anywhere... Anyone know if it's going to move to a DA while active?? I would hate for us to get rid of this program.

Hi! I just got hired at my local Micheals in Michigan, if there's any advice anyone has, this is my first job so it would be greatly appreciated!

My frame shop received the materials for the same day canvas printing .. but no directions. Any tips or directions? I asked my store manager and she refuses to be helpful or give suggestions.