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Jo-Ann Stores operates fabric and craft specialty retail stores. read more
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Executives get rich while store employees make $8 per hour, and are rarely allowed to work full-time hours. It's not a living wage, these workers are unable to make ends meet. Exec's have said "its not about pay, but creating a work environment where people will be okay working for less. Shameful
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Employees are friends and work together to make the store a good place to work, since we cant rely on corporate to give us what we need.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Despite low pay, being understaffed, poor work conditions (corporate controls the store temperature and refuses to fix our AC), and being completely ignored by upper management, my store manager and coworkers work hard, try to stay upbeat, and care for each other
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Store conditions are poor, pay is abysmal, stock is often low, prices are inflated, quality of fabric fluctuates but is generally coewed by the public as poor. Store layout is terrible--obviously the people who make the decisions for Joann dont actually SHOP at Joann. Pay more. Listen. Change.
What do you like best about the leadership team?
My store manager puts in 60 or 70 hours a week in stressful conditions. We have an amazing group of employees and she is fair and leads by example, but HIGHLY underpaid. Our worth as employees is greatly undervalued, managers/store needs are constantly dismissed by the higher-ups in charge.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
There is no compensation. Benefits for fulltime employees dont help the vast majority of is kept working part time and are not affordable for those few that work fulltime. The "keyholders" (managers) at my store make around $9 an hour. PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES A WAGE THEY CAN ACTUALLY LIVE ON.
What did you like most about the interview process?
I didnt actually interview for the job. The manager hired me because I was a regular customer with sewing/craft experience who wouldnt be relying soley on the income from Joann to survive. I filled out an online application, the manager called me about a month later, I started the next day
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