Avantages
It’s a good place to work PT while going to school or as a 2nd job PT as they pay above minimum wage and give you schedule flexibility. Overall, it’s an easy job if you have common sense and a good work ethic. Instant Profit Sharing (IPS) is really the only good benefit they have. They offered an employee discount, weekend pay increase, and gave out holiday gifts. FT got every other weekend off which is better than working every weekend. Pet & Grocery Specialist had a set schedule unlike other non-management FT positions. A lot of career opportunities and easy to move up if you're willing to work. A lot of my co-workers and department managers were cool and easy to get along with, but some co-workers acted like they were in high school by creating drama and back stabbing other co-workers.
Inconvénients
Overall, Menards is a dead end job unless you advance into corporate. The working environment was hostile, negative, & stressful which led to low morale & workers just doing the bare minimum. There were blatant examples of favoritism, fraternization, verbal abuse of employees by customers & co-workers, state/local laws being broken, and OSHA laws being ignored. Management was ran by people with no degrees or any knowledge of business what so ever. Managers rarely held anyone accountable for their actions or mistakes. They were either one to all of the following: on a power trip, rude & unprofessional, young & inexperienced, lazy, lacking leadership, no business sense, played favorites, provided no direction, and didn’t appreciate their employees’ hard work. The negatives outweigh the positives for moving into management. Management has to work 55+ hrs every week, must relocate stores to move up, and follow ridiculous policies & rules from corporate, no thanks. Corporate micromanages everything by stores visits and spying on employees using the cameras in the store. They used the fear of losing your job to motivate employees & demotion to punish them. Corporate was out of touch with reality on the daily operations of a store by the suggestions they made during visits & the tasks they assigned. The policies & procedures changed constantly & were vague and open to interpretation by managers. As a result, there was never a consensus on how anything was to be done which led to much confusion. Corporate also had set up some of the craziest, write up happy rules I have ever seen for a workplace. The point system for enforcing these rules was ridiculous. Training was a learn on the fly style with little to no direction and an in-home training program with info for a 1st grade level instead of a 12th grade level. They played musical chairs with the staff, so no one knew anything about the department they worked in. All this led to terrible customer service & poorly runned stores. The stores are understaffed due to high turnover & low store payroll. This led to the overworking of employees and them trying to keep you after you’re done with your shift & tasks. It seemed the more hours you put in is more important than the quality of work done in their eyes. The scheduling program is flawed and would have you work 8-10 days in a row & 10+ hour shifts. FT must have an open schedule meaning a no work/life balance. Their technology & equipment is severely outdated and constantly breaking down. Benefits stink such as expensive health insurance that covers little, no 401K match, and too few vacation days.