r/menards

What does Menards offers there employees after, let's say, 30 or 40 years of service? Handshake, t-shirt, $100 gift card?

Went to Menards to get some Zinsser 123 to prime some old dark paints, and saw some recommendations online saying you can tint the primer a bit darker to cover better for light paint after. I asked the manager if he could tint it and the conversation went like this:

Me: hi is it possible to tint and shake this for me?

Mgr: I know this says tintable but generally we can’t tint these because I can’t guarantee a color and we don’t have the code for it

Me: but you can tint paint? I’m looking to add tint from a Menards swatch (white Saige) and I just want some* color in it that’s darker than the white.

Mgr: repeats same thing then “also I can’t tint this because it’s 2 gallons and I only have settings for a quart, half gallon, gallon, and 5 gallons. It would require more calculations etc if I was going to tint this”

Me: okay. Would it be possible to just double the gallon tint amount for two gallons then?

Mgr, seemingly saying fuck it: sure we can try it!

Background: I used to work at a hardware store and tinting paint or whatever you want is pretty straightforward. Idk if this guy just didn’t want to do it or if Menards generally doesn’t do this. Any others have a similar experience?

Will the survey be taken seriously if the answers are all either strongly agree or all strongly disagree? Does there have to be some variability or it will get excluded from the final results?

There are a few people i strongly disagree with but I want there to be a chance they actually get demoted... and vice versa

Have you all noticed a change in the demographic that shops at Menards?? I mean, seriously, the people who shop in my store can't even match the color on the cap of spray paint. I learned to match colors when I was 3 years old. And if I have to read another label to a guest I'm going to lose my mind!

Thinking about getting Stoten white klearvue cabinets with the Cascade Nori quartz. Has anyone done this or at least had the Cascade Nori installed. Would love to get real world pictures of the countertop. The in-store/designer tool sample just isnt giving me the "full picture".

Has anyone been terminated for giving a costumer the wrong order and if so what happened.

Why is there not a dedicated credit card for filling gas for the rental trucks? Instead whichever team member is lucky enough to get chosen has to hope their HR is competent enough to enter the expense forms correctly. I could invest the hundred plus dollars I have to spend to fill them, but nah, I'll get the money back in a couple weeks

Ah yes, time to rate people we barely work with and have the GMs take it way to seriously. Don't mind the guest compliments or complaints on a daily basis but on a once a year popularity contest and secret shops that contradict themselves constantly.

I've seen recent post taking about 9 blocks, and I joined Menards about 8 months ago, so I'm not sure what they mean.

I put in a request for flex pto for a shift in which I was scheduled from 6 am - 3 pm. I put in the request for 12 pm - 3 pm as at 12 my manager would come in and I wouldn’t be the only person working. I talked to my AM and he told me that should be fine. However after requesting it my GM ends up denying it and the reason stated was : “ Would negatively effect our business.”

I’m thinking about accepting an offer for a manager trainee position and I’m weighing options for where I want to start my next lease. My current lease is ending shortly after the program starts and the GM told me during the interview that the program may run long due to it being paused during their remodel.

The store it seems most likely I will end up in after training is about an hour from the store where I’m training. With my background experience, the general manager thinks I may be able to go directly to being a department manager rather than an assistant but I’m not counting chickens before they hatch.

Has anyone here received relocation assistance from menards? What was it like? What sort of things do they cover/ how much was the amount of assistance? If the relocation assistance isn’t great I’m going to try to find an apartment in the middle of the local menards store I may end up in (i’d still have a half hour commute in any direction) but of the assistance is decent, I can try to find a place nearby thats cheap so if I have to break the lease its not as much and I could use the assistance to ease that burden

Is the rule about not being able to come back to a store you left for 6 months a real rule? Like quitting and then wanting to go back?

Non corporate workers how long have you been at Menards or know how long someone has been working at Menards?

Update: I asked the manager and he gave me a complete refund Plus $50 store credit and let me keep all the parts! (Ha ha, just kidding). Thanks for all the comments even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear. At least I figured out how to just change out the end frame without completely disassembling it. Took a bit of finagling to figure out how to support the beams in place and because the beam tie bars being installed made it hard to pull the beams from the end frame slots, but I did it so the time involved wasn't too bad. I just bought the new part today and I'll take the bad one back tomorrow so I haven't made the return yet nor asked for anything.

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I just got finished, or should I say almost finished, building a garage shelf set with the Performax Heavy Duty Steel Rack Shelving - I spent $300 on the parts to build a 96" x 72" x 24" set of shelves.

I completely built the base and middle two shelves and when putting on the last 96" side beam for the third shelf I found that the holes it fits into on the end frame were misaligned on one of the sides it should attach to and it wouldn't fit on. You can see in the photo below they are not centered and the spacing from the edge on the right hole is so much wider than the left and they should be the same.

So after over 2 hours assembling this thing I now have to disassemble it to remove the end frame and take it in for an exchange. Then spending close to another 2 hours (second time always is faster) getting to the same point I'm at now. So what should have taken about 2 hours to do will instead take me 5 to 6 hours. (2 to assemble, close to 2 more to disassemble and then another close to 2 to reassemble with the new part plus time going to and from the store for the exchange.

Since this was a Menards private brand part, is there any chance they'd give me some compensation for all the wasted time? Maybe some store credit or a retro discount on the purchase. I'm just a homeowner but I do spend a lot of money every year at Menards.

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Fun fact: The Christmas jingle we still hear today was originally written for a rebranding package during the time, consisting of other seasonal jingles. This jingle was their official jingle from 1986 to 1989.

My store is currently making Payroll to Sales (PTS) by $45,000. Sounds great, right? Here’s the problem.
My department is missing PTS by $7,000, while the front end (support department btw) is making it by $66,000. Meanwhile, my GM is happy because the store is making PTS, but I’m getting screwed out of every PTS bonus this year.
How does it make sense that the store can be $45K under payroll overall, but individual department managers get penalized because their departments aren’t meeting their own numbers?
I’m not saying managers shouldn’t be held accountable for their departments, but the current system seems completely backwards. One department can carry the entire store’s PTS numbers while the rest of us get absolutely nothing.
If the store is making PTS, shouldn’t all department managers benefit from that success? Why should one department’s numbers determine whether another manager gets a bonus when the store as a whole is meeting its goal?
PTS should be universal across all departments. If the store is making its PTS goal, all department managers should qualify for their bonus. Otherwise, what’s the incentive to work together as a team when the reward system only benefits certain departments?
Am I the only one who thinks this system is completely broken?

Side note: the Front End is not struggling, they do not put away the returns and they have 2-3 closing cashiers every night. I’m in Building Materials with 3-4 team members on the clock everyday. I cannot operate on anything less, I honestly feel like I need 4-5 people a day. My department does $45-$65k a day. The GM says he cannot move the payroll numbers even though he admits he messed up the numbers this year… Don’t worry I’ll take the infraction on my bonus for your mess up while you get rewarded for my hard work.

Do people go to Menards to literally just F up the bathrooms and find a way to get crap everywhere? I have never seen another retail establishment where it's common for people to crap on the floor, the seat, and the walls.

When you retired did you get any kind of thanks for your years of service from the company (not coworkers)? Do you feel the years of service you gave Menards was valued by the company?

So my store is going to be salarying “Must Pulls” for the outside yard apparently. We are currently a skeleton crew outside. And definitely do not have enough people or forklifts to be able to work just pulls, while unloading flat beds, and helping guests. I just don’t see it working even remotely.
Not to mention I guess other stores have tried it, and it’s failed. Any thoughts or opinions.