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Don't waste your time with The Container Store. I wasted to many years of my life. I feel so much better since I no longer have to go there.
Looking back I can only think of cons. I am so disappointed in upper management...shame on all of them!
Do not work for this place. I have supported the store and management, worked terrible hours, put up with miserable managers and just put up with their crap. The hours are so undependable and the schedule changes weekly, many part-time employees need 1 or 2 part-time jobs along with their TCS job. I picked up a part-time job which was spending time with my grandchildren and guess what? No schedule for me. I have been with this hell hole for 11 years and that is the thanks I get. So save yourself a lot of greef and skip the TCS job.
The last posting (and, frankly, the other less than glowing postings) are correct. However, I need to clarify one thing regarding statements about full-time employees. We suffer along with the P/T folks. Yes, your hours have been cut. But don't just think that we only lost the salary review. Like all P/T folk, we lost the match to the 401-K. We lost standard schedules, and we lost wellness incentives...just like P/T staff. And we also deal with the same "be happy or else" management style too. On a final note, P/T or F/T, we were all hired because we are great people (well, at least most of us ;-). Not having the P/T staff that we came to rely on for floor coverage, OP, maintenance work, etc. really hurts too. So, please, if you're a P/T employee reading this, realize that F/T employees feel your pain too!
Love the people I work with. New scheduling system, which is automated now. The computer picks who works when and what they do. Talk about losing the personal touch! Part-timers work 3 hour shifts! Really not worth it, especially if the shift is in the middle of the day! They hire great people, so why not give them more hours and stop hiring? Treat those great people with respect, we are "people" after all, not a number. Upper management doesn't get it, they have lost the people connection. Whatever you do, don't complain. If you don't "embrace" it, you are on the black list and will be treated so badly you leave....you will want to leave. They don't value you as a person with an opinion. They don't want to hear it. Even employees that have been there 10 yrs or more. Give them 10 yrs of good dependable work and say something wrong, then receive 6 hrs a week. Sad. I think TCS will fall even further down the Fortune list next year, if they are even on it!
Salary is all over the place, depends on how much they like you. Pay for one person is $3 lower than another, same experience, same position, same good work ethic, etc. A new hire, no experience, was brought in at a higher pay than this person who had worked there for years. Salary freeze with no date of lifting it. Stopped matching 401K. PT insurance isn't worth it. They are making all these cuts to PT people but their FT employees have only had to endure the salary freeze. They are still taking their 4-6 six weeks vacations and enjoying nice benefits.
Cult-like, disrespect from managers and especially customers, no acknowledgment for hard work, hard work does not equal good pay, not allowed to yawn, not allowed to sit down, not allowed to defend yourself or express any negative emotions, you HAVE to take the abuse, sexual harassment, age and sex discrimination, no benefits, they don't care if you get sick or injured unless they have to call an ambulance for you, your responsibilities and actions will not reflect your job title (ex. you will have managerial responsibilities while not being properly compensated because you have the lowest job title.) Lack of people of color (can count them on 1 hand), any sarcastic remarks are taken as aggressive non-tcs behavior, deny training for those who request it, force unwanted training on others, do not help with coverage (ex. if you are sick or need vacation time, it is your personal responsibility to find someone to cover for you and you better hope that person is reliable or else you look really bad). Degrading, disrespectful and inhumane. Your family means nothing, work is #1 and if you have other priorities such as other jobs, school, family, hobbies--you can forget that because you are expected to eat sleep and breathe tcs even if you are not on the clock.
$10 starting- current pay $11
Working at The Container Store was the worst experience. The supervisors are ineffective, disrespectful and unbelievably rude. The company culture as it was conceived many years ago has morphed into a cult-like environment. Smile and pretend to be happy or ELSE! It doesn't matter how hard you work either, because it wont be acknowledged. As if that weren't enough, the actual environment in the dungeon-like stockroom is moldy, crumbling and a breeding ground for all kinds of rashes and respiratory illnesses. But don't call in sick as a result because your job will then be on the line. The pay rate is also vastly different for everyone with most people of color beginning at a much lower rate. Finally, the company has fallen victim to the recent economic downturn as have many retailers, but The Container Store continues to hire seasonal employees during "high" volume sale campaigns and then forces their loyal, EXPERIENCED employees to BATTLE for hours with the SEASONAL employees. Not only do you have to train the new employees, pick up their slack and essentially do double the work, but they then take your hours. This company has so many underhanded,backward, and destrucitve policies. Its a mess.
After they rigorously recruited me, and after a group interview, & numerous unnecessary indivudual interviews, I reluctantly took this job P/T so I could finish my masters in education. Mngmt begged me to be F/T & after seeing all the pathetic begging, I put my foot down and said P/T only 3 days a week b/c of school. I had no retail exp. and been in corp. america for the past 6 yrs, which is why they said they hired me. All employees were rude and threatened by me, asking how I got this job and berated me w/ ?'s my first few days. I was embarassed for them, again this was a major set back for me after being in corp america, but I thought it would get better. After 3 days of training, then on my own, I was forced to come in on Sunday, (even tho I cannot work Sundays), at 7:30am for a store meeting. Before, and after the meeting nobody would speak to me& pushed me out of the way when I stood next to them, etc. I then was pulled away after the meeting by mngmt and they 'let me go' b/c 1 other employee stated that I "bite my nails" and he heard all about it yesterday. WHAT? I laughed in front of him and almost fell out of my chair. The irony is, I get my nails professionally french manicured every 2 wks & it's obvious, everybody commented on how pretty my nails were. He said 'it didn't matter, and they can't have that'. He continued to say 'I don't fit in', and the other employees 'didn't like me' and "he can't handle hearing it anymore, so they are letting me go". I told him it was discriminatory, and everything he was accusing me of was a lie. The powers that be (him and his caddy women staff) decided I didn't fit in. (A wonderful blessing in disguise!) I truly was relieved and walked out of that sunday morning meeting laughing harder than I ever had. How pathetic is that? I have never been let go before for anything, but being perceived as a "nail biter", is not only totally not true, and discriminatory, it has nothing to do with performing a job. I called upper management at corporate right away to report this and was given an apology and told they would send me "coupons for my next purchase". I receievd a pathetic apology that stated "I didn't fit in to thier culture, and here is $100.00 towards your next purchase". You've got to be kidding me! I laugh about it now, but it definetely was a cult like atmosphere that I didn't want any part of. It was like I was being "punked". Now I get to laugh at thier pathetic faces when I NEVER shop there again. Thier corny and out of touch customer service procedure is just that- corny and out of touch. Good riddens Container Store- Mazel Tov!!
15.00 an hour, no vacation, no bonuses, no reimbursements. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. Management complained to me during interview process about them being embarrased to work there and they wouldnt blame me if I went thru that feeling too. Stay far away from this place!!!!!!
The Container Store has changed and they are no longer the company they once where. They have cut back on benefits/pay for employees significantly. There unique culture has faded away and they are just a run of the mill retailer now.
Great customers, employees and products. Horrible hours and difficult to get time off. They try to create a company culture, but it is very lame and pointless. Overall nice management, but not experienced or effective. They used to value creativity and intuition, but now they just value profit and loss. Too bad.
Seasonal: $10/hour. Full time: $14.50-16/hour. 2 weeks vacation for full time. Offer Health Benefits and 401k, but you have to pay for all of them. Bonuses for finding new employees that are generous, $50-500.
Don't buy the hype about The Container Store being one of the best places to work. They parade that fortune list around because that's all they have. You get no hours working here and they are extremely inflexible regarding hours. You get a fixed schedule that cannot change. You can't switch shifts with another worker under any circumstance. The container store has their some ridiculous rules. Dress is casual which is nice.
$14.00 an hour.
A cool store with cool products, a cool culture, and cool employees. The container store consistently ranks as one of the fortune 100 best companies to work for. The pay is good for part time retail $10hr and you get a discount on merchandise. The store has a cool and funky vibe to it. They pride themselves on customer service so you are expected to deliver the best service to the customer. They are very selective on who they hire. The culture is friendly but the downside is you don’t get many hours if you are part time. They do have a set schedule so you work the same hour every week which is convenient.