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The Container Store

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Not The Container Store It Used to Be - Anonymous employee The Container Store Employee Review

2.0
Oct 13, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great brand to build your resume.

Cons

If you are considering a role at The Container Store's home office, do your due diligence in researching the company. Though often promoted to candidates as "voted best places to work", be sure to check the date when the company was last awarded this title. Unfortunately, the Company's adaption to COVID era working from home has made any work life balance to be nonexistent. Lack of trust from upper management to employees is palpable. There is a shocking lack of strategy from C-level management, seeping its way to lack of ownership. Every project is deemed URGENT but the company lacks the resources to fully strategize and execute to take the business to the next level. Resources are lean, and, as mentioned, often pulled to tackle HOT requests, leaving no room to optimize business as usual. Compensation is abysmal.

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Pros

Great Customer. Customers come in and find the time and energy to be positive making for a great working environment.

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

The Container Store has the most thorough training process of any company I've worked for. The environment was nice, and my coworkers and managers were all great. The employee discount is significant.

Cons

I applied because I was not getting the hours I was promised by my other part-time retail job. During the hiring process, they said I could work as many hours as I wanted, up to 29 hours per week. They did not mention until I was hired and asking for my hours that hours are dependent on how many customers you get to sign up for the rewards program. As a cashier, everyone I checked out who was not a part of the rewards program and did not want to be counted against me. Customers who are already a part of it don't factor in. I could check out 40 people in a shift, only have 5 who weren't part of the program, and only get 2 of them to sign up, and I would be penalized for that with my hours. If you work floor shifts and sign people up on the floor, it's able to boost your score since you don't interact with non-rewards members who don't want to join the system at all, but I was never offered floor shifts. They expected a 60-70% conversion rate, which is not realistic. Most people who want to be part of the program already are, and those who aren't typically aren't willing to even hear your 20-second pitch about it.

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