Store Manager - Store Manager Five Below Employee Review

1.0
2 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some pretty cool merchandise at a decent price.

Cons

District and regional managers have no idea how hard it is for store managers to get the work done that corporate is expecting them to do. It is absolutely ludicrous the amount of things they throw on your plate at one time. The weekly Market plans that you are given 10 hours for when in reality it takes you about 40.. I'm not sure who does the planning in corporate but they need to spend time in a store actually doing the work that the store managers do to get an idea of how hard we really work and how ridiculous their expectations truly are . This along with the company deciding to change every damn system at the same time .. payroll...Freight processing and HR management... without perfecting any of them before they move on to the next. You're stuck spending too much time in your office trying to fix problems that corporate has created by taking on too much at once. Beyond frustrating. Looking forward to a new job soon

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Pros

-20% discount -med, dental, vision benefits -20-ish minimum hours per week -genuinely can be a fun store to work in when run well

Cons

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