STAY AWAY - Classroom Instructor Michaels Employee Review

1.0
2 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The actual teaching was fun, the work itself was enjoyable. I liked my coworkers.

Cons

-Not getting paid unless, on your own time, you hunted down the payroll person and waited for them to get a physical check. -Terrible lack of communication -Never getting an employee ID/discount card, reason given being that they "ran out." (You don't know how many employees you have and didn't order the right amount?) -NOT GETTING A W-2! This basically absorbed three stressful weeks of my life when I was trying to file taxes and couldn't get a thing from them. No response at all to various communication attempts. -Not being paid the right amount. There was a week where I had twice as many students (so should have had twice as much pay) as usual but still was only paid $50. However, it was such a pain to get my paycheck at all that I wasn't up to whatever I'd have to go through to get paid the correct amount. -they just put projects on the calendar. Sometimes they are really weird things like a "baby kimono." I'd no idea how to make a baby kimono, thankfully none of the students wanted to make one, but they don't check with you before just advertising and scheduling weird projects you're supposed to teach. they offer no materials to explain anything to you (like to show you how to make the weird things they advertise you'll be teaching).

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Some great co-workers, employee discount, on site office benefits including a gym and cafe for breakfast/lunch, full suite of employee benefits at reasonable prices

Cons

Ridiculous amount of stress. Retail in general is often stressful but the amount of stress at Michaels is unnecessary and over the top. Constant last-minute changes by leadership to creative, promotions, products, and any other kind of changes. Things will be finalized and signed off on and delivered, and somebody will make a change at the last minute and things are constantly having to be redone. People are worn down and worn out. It’s the highest turnover rate of any place I’ve worked in retail at the corporate office. I’ve seen people take jobs and be gone within weeks. Leadership in some departments are extremely micromanaging and controlling even with employees that are tenured and have multiple years of experience. The stress level for both tenured and new employees is very high. Projects get discussed over and over and over again, decisions are made and then revisited again after decisions were made making delivery late and causing people to work unnecessarily in order to fix things that could’ve been done correctly the first time. The company tries really hard to make the workplace fun and offer activities, motivation, and incentives. Unfortunately they don’t offset what the environment is like working inside with some of the teams and expectations to actually deliver the work. Would not recommend.

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