Q&A With Hallmark Employees

Not at all

I challenge myself and love competing at what was previously done to improve sales. Hallmark give you much flexibility to display and present product that does not have a specific plan. I enjoy pulling out items from “no home” or “back-stock” to bring out more items to sell in high volume seasons. The way the products are kept retail ready really makes a difference in encouraging people to buy.

Not in the right way, I want tech challenges not political challenges.

There's nothing exciting about working at Hallmark, it's a part time, always will be part time job with a company who doesn't even have full time district managers, so if you get hired on as a retail merchandiser and your immediate supervisor has a chip on her shoulder and loves to power trip, please never forget to answer her with a positive response like, " Yes mam'n, I mean yes Part Time I'll get right on that!"

Flexible hours

Working with Elixir & Phoenix

There is a lot more to do than "stocking". Reading planograms, designing layouts when improvising is needed, ordering and auditing, tracking and finding missing shipments, constantly changing guidelines as to execution of duties, inventory of cards when season s end, you are not doing your job correctly if you think it is easy.

They call you, ask very general questions , it's not rocket science anyone can stock the Card Department whatever stores your assigned to

Your interview is by telephone.

My interview was done over the phone.

I had a ten minute phone interview with HR person and was offered a position by email immediately, I met my supervisor in person approximately a week later.

Less than a week.

Easy

One of the best, non-stressful interviews I’ve ever had. Interview was done over the phone, I was at home so I felt very comfortable in my own personal environment.

I quit after a year of verbal abuse by my part time supervisor.

Very. As long as you follow requirements from emails and meet time request you will be secure.

Don't even try, horrible experience, low pay.

Start at the most basic level and move up.

We had one yearly meeting consisting of my supervisors whole district, maybe 8 ladies, we had to drive for a hour, meeting was in a small town voluntary fire department building and food was not catered, "Part Time" cooked a casserole.

Never had one.

How mean the supervisor was and how badly your hours are cut unless it's Valentine's day, mother's day or Christmas.

That field employees are not given enough time to do the job expected at a quality level of service. Cutting hours or limiting them is one of the most important focuses and even the highest point for evaluation. So if a person doesn’t even do a great job but stays under their time allowed they are valued highly.

Lousy

Could be better if communication was better. Most, if not all, is top down instead of mutual in a team format.

None unless you count your yearly Christmas ornament as a perk

Basically I get none.

Ten minutes

About 5 minutes or less

Fast and easy but misleading

It was very easy.

It can be very fast in high seasons. Literally there is more to do than humanly possible in the time given. (I truly wish the company would invest back into the company by giving more hours to RMs during high seasons.) When seasons are over the time given reduces tremendously, almost 2/3 less time is allotted to service the store. I wish high level corporate employees that allocate time would work a month at a few stores to see what employees actually do in the retail or even warehouse level. I think this would give these people much more understanding of the actual time needed to service stores efficiently. Since you rush through everyday items during seasons, you really need to be given a few weeks time with enough hours to bring the entire store up to a high functioning serviced level. In most cases you have more to do than hours allowed to work.

Slow, break neck, slow, repeat.

Service animals only

It's really quick

We are only offered part time sick pay

The 40% off discount for employees

Customer service

The company and executives making profit is growing the fastest, paying its nearly 100 percent female retail merchandiser workforce appropriately for the management responsibilities and workload they have to shoulder for a quarter of what they should be paid is stagnant.

Promote people to full time, hire supervisors who work well and respect others who have been properly trained to supervise others.

Once a year, you may get a 25¢ raise

General interview style, very easy to be hired by telephone interview.

They will tell you as you onboard that you can work any hours between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. as long as you are there while the store manager is and then after you begin working, your immediate supervisor will demand you be there by 8:00 a.m. , which is a waste of your four hour daily scheduled time if your delivery doesn't arrive til 10:00a.m. and then expects you to be finished by noon.