I worked for Menards from sept. 26, 2006 to Dec. 13, 2007. I worked in 3 different stores, Spencer,Ia. Des Moines,Ia. and St Joseph,Mo. I can tell you this much the only thing and I mean the only thing they cared about was there bottom line. If that ment sending their workers home early and leaving no one in the department to help the customers then so be it. Every Monday morning we had a managers meeting which was all the dept. managers and the store asst. and manager. The first thing that we talked about was payroll. The manager would say that the store isn't making payroll so if it slow in your dept. then send your part timers home. It didn't matter that business would pick up later we sent them home. Many times I would have done this and then had customers standing there waiting for me to finish with my customer so I could help them. Problem was that most times I would see the customer leave because I was taking to long whit the customer I had. The manager didn't care that that happened because all he was concerned with was making payroll for the week and/or the year. By him making payroll each week he would get a nice bonus and at the end of the year it would be a very nice bonus. well over $5000.00
The reason I am writing this is because when I put in my 2 weeks notice on Dec 7, 2007 I was to work till Dec. 21, 2007. I knew that I needed to work past Dec. 15 to get my IPS (instand profit sharing) bonus. Well Dec. 13 came along and the store manager called me into his office and let me go. I then called the general office in Eau Claire,Wi and told them what had just happened and wanted to know if I would get my IPS bonus. They told me to call back at the end of Feb. 2008 so I did. I was told that I didn't work past Dec. 15 so I would not get my IPS bonus. To get the IPS bonus you have to work atleast 1000 hours during the year. I worked over 2700 hours. This is the way they treat their workers and customers. It is ALL about the bottom line with menards. I can tell you now that I would never tell a friend that menards is a good company to work for or to shop at.
1. Written by Marshfield, WI...Past or Prese, on 02-06-2008 10:36
Will have to say this might be the worst place to work all time. Their scheduling is crappy. The managers do do jack-***. I worked part-time and may I say their managers they have in most if not all departments are dumber than boxes of rocks (must have luckily obtained their high school GED).
The one manager that ticked me off the most of John from cabinets and appliances. This guy was a tool and didn't do a freaking thing besides stand around and go talk to other freaking managers.
The managers at this Menards mostly stood around and told the part-timers what to do while they talked to each other or when on break. I would rather work at a lowering paying job than take it up the *** from this company. They send you home if the department isn't making payroll, they change schedules and don't tell you, oh and from what I witnessed the managers talk about customers behind their backs and also treat a lot of customers like crap too. Just something a lot of shopper would probably want to know before they visit their local Menards.
MENARDS ***...
Oh and my departments manager said that when they went to a Menards "gathering" some stupid meeting in Eau Claire. Larry called people who worked at Lowe's "low-lifes" and people who worked at Home Depot "homilies".
I guess that makes Menards managers... dumbasses?
Oh yeah... Menards is a terrible place to work at... HR should wake-up and look at how their managers treat and act people, but when a co-owner (Larry) acts like a 12 year old, who can blame the place.
I have so many more stories of working here it is unbelieveable.
PS- Why don't the Menards Bros. make this company a publicly traded company... oh yeah they are greedy plus it would probably make them liable to post tax and profit returns to everyone. Suck for the managers who make it a life long dream to get a great retirement fund from this sh*thole of a company.
3. Written by possible employee, on 13-05-2008 15:25
Feel free to call me an idiot and judge me for my personal actions on this. I applied for a kart pushing job at my local menards, the they called me two days later (Thursday) and told me to come in for an orientation on Wednesday. The problem is I just got my drug test results back and tested positive for marijuana and amphetamines. I have a prescription for the amphetamines (Adderall), but do you think when I go to my orientation they'll let me go?
First off. I worked for Menards for 6 1/2 years. I trained the GM in the front office. when he was an intern at the registers. When he became a GM in the front of office. Menards Managers treat their employees like crap. I had my manager tell me to my face that I was Fat. Telling me that I need to stop eating. He would also make remarks "Oh there she is eating again." when I am diabetic so of course I am gonna have to eat something to make my blood sugar to be normal and not pass out at Menards. I asked the same Manager 3 years every other day to be trained up at Customer Service..did not happen. He put a new employee who was 2 months pregnant up at CS.
I also had spoken with the Store Manager. the way he had been treating me. We had a meeting. Nothing stopped. It continued to esculate. I litterally pulled my self out of the front office and went back to Wallcoverings cuase the GM of Wallcoverings knew what was happening and said if i wanted to come back I could. So I did with out telling the Store Manager and Human Resources. 2 weeks later I came forward told them what was going on. they let me stay in Wallcoverings...I was than told that I could have the full time position...when 1 assistent manager left and 2 full time employees left. Than Menards highered 2 full time employees with Out exsperience. Than I put in a request to be an assistent manager. No meeting what so ever and decided to give it to one of the New Hires. Now You tell me if that is wrong or not.
At Menards I received 10 Guest Service Awards. My first week in the Wall coverings department I received 3 out of the 10. When I put in my actual 3 week notice to tell Menards I was leaving. Then did not fire me, becuase they knew I could back at them for the way they treated and the way I was harassed.
When I left 15 people and out of those 15. 3 of them were Assistant Managers in 2 of them in one department and 1 in another All 15 of them said they are leaving because of the way they treated me.
The store I worked at No One now lasts longer than 3 months. There is a manager that I know who tells me. that He would NOT recommend anyone to work for Menards longer than 3 months. What some also have to understand They also treat there Department Managers like Crap too not just the employees. that is why 3 assistant managers left.
The people and managers that I still know that are still working there and so do some of my friends. They continue to ask me to come back to work for Menards but I will never work for the company again. Now you really want to know how bad it is at Menards When the Human Resource Guy sees that after 2 weeks that I have been gone. He got up and left with out giving a 2 week notice.
Menards dont listen to the employees. they never will
WHAT HAS EVER HAPPEN TO PEOPLE HAVING MORALS IN THIS WORLD?
I was always taught all my life that when you’re being paid to do a job you should be working while you’re on your employers’ time. But anymore I guess that just doesn’t matter! I was fired today by Menards GM (Troy Berry) for speaking out against a manager in the floor coverings Dept. that stands around talking while he is being paid to do a job. They keep some managers around that hate women and are jerks to many of their guests and run away their business. And other managers that does absolutely nothing but walks around the store and calls each other on the phone when they see a young woman walk in and then they fallow her around the store making crude comments about her to each other.
But they fire an assistant manager for speaking up about what’s going on that’s unfair in that store! What is wrong with this picture? We are called “team members” Which in my dictionary it says; “a cooperatively functioning group: a number of people organized to function cooperatively as a group”. We are supposed to work together as a team, but I guess that doesn’t apply to everyone. I have gone to work and worked my but off for this company for the past 3 years from the time I clock in until they tell me that I have to leave at night. I would stay over for hours after I got off from work to get things done that I wasn’t asked to. Because I knew if I didn’t do it, it would be left all day until Mark came in to work for his 4 hour shift, after he got off from his full time day job for him to do.
I did my job plus this so called manager’s job. He has never made out a schedule for the department; he never makes out the to do lists for the department, he has no idea what needs to be done around the department, because he would tell my other team members that he was saving it for me to do. He would complete out tasks from the general office that wasn’t done and I would have go back and check the tasks and do them myself to make sure it got done. He takes tools off the shelves or anything else he wants, but never in store used any of them or paid for them. I would fallow policy and procedure on everything but in the end I got the shaft!
Anymore it’s as though a person has to lie, cheat and steal to get anywhere in this world! It doesn’t seem to pay to be an honest hard working person! I guess I did take my job to seriously like I was told by this manager. Menards GM tells you to come to him if you have a problem, he would say “write a letter to him about what’s going on so it’s in your file to help you later on down the road you have proof to fall back on, then turns it around on you to make you look bad! But if you do they fire you! At least in the end I know I stuck to my morals and I still have them! I can sleep at night knowing that I’m living up to Gods expectations of me. I never lied, cheated or stole anything from Menards!
So, if you anyone needs a job that lies, cheats or stills. You can pass your first drug test then you can work stoned when you want, that wants a job that doesn’t require you to work and will pay you for standing around. You don’t have to have any morals. Then go on out to Menards their hiring!
First off Larry is the number 2 guy with the company. He is John's brother. John is the one who fired Larry's son Charlie. (The "former" COO). Charlie was fired durining his own wedding reception. John got pissed when pictures of Charlie standing next to the company airplane were shown to the guests.
As far as IPS goes. Each store is responsible for it's "team members" IPS payment. If the store makes a profit then the Team members share in that profit. It's up the GM of the store to make sure that each member gets the biggest check possiable. So the GM will fire a couple high paid DM's or ADM's so the rest of the members can get an extra $50 in their IPS check.
retard snuffer how long have you worked for this *** eating company, probably not too long. and have you ever met mr Larry P Retard. let me tell you he is a *** *** who fired his own nephew the coo of the company for nothing. so yeah i give you some cheese for your wine, fromunder cheese that is
i understand what this guy is talking about. there have been MANY times when i was sent home after only being there for a couple of hours. its all because were not making payroll, i know what im doing, i know my department, im not some lazy employee, its we dont have enough people buying enough stuff in our department to make payroll. there have been several times that the store or assist. manager has sent my manager home and made me stay still we close. they've also sent whole departments home and made other departments watch that one to try and make payroll. another thing, the ips is the only good bonus the store gives to its employees. i know several people (including managers who were *** good at their job) who were let go before their two weeks were up so that menards wouldnt have to pay them their bonus. they say they value and appreciate their employees, but when they treat them like this, it doesnt really show it . . .
If you sell more, that means you have more payroll to spend! Obviously you weren't selling, displaying poor management skills. Maybe you should have gave more attention to the guests and sold a little more, and they wouldn't have let you go so easily. Its always easier to blame the other person isn't it!
One thing that everyone is not considering. Payroll is the number one controllable expense. You must understand this is the norm in retail. The manager was not explaining this, thus exibiting poor leadership and moral building.
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Will have to say this might be the worst place to work all time. Their scheduling is crappy. The managers do do jack-***. I worked part-time and may I say their managers they have in most if not all departments are dumber than boxes of rocks (must have luckily obtained their high school GED). 