The Container Store reviews

New store, enormous training but not on the right things. Too much corporate Kool-Aid then the store opens and everyone gets their hours cut. Apparently, they needed a lot of employees for the grand opening but that was it. Everyone had to "work" the opening party but we were not paid and we were supposed to feel happy that we were invited because we got free food. Weird shifts, no consistency in putting schedules out, some management was too new to know what was going on, and lots of pettiness and gossip from a few of the full-timers. Just hype to get folks to sign on to be "prime-time" which just means part-time. Corporate folks claim they have never had lay-offs but all they really do is cut the hours until people quit. Enormous push to have everyone sign up their email accounts.

I'm not sure why we had managers and full-timers at all. They spent the entire day in the break room chatting and drinking coffee. If you asked them to help out, even in the holiday season when the store was packed, they'd give you stick, tell you to get back to work and go back to their conversation. Management and full-time choose new full-timers, and no matter what they tell you they don't promote from within. If you ask about promotion more than once, they cut your hours so they don't have to fire you and pay unemployment. It's a cult. It really is. They put you in situations (overnights are the big one) where you form an unusually close bond with your co-workers and then punish you for stepping out of line by upbraiding you in front of your friends. If you don't toe the line, they cut your hours so that you can't see those new friends anymore.