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The Container Store

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The Container Store Visual Sales - Part Time reviews

3.6

74% would recommend to a friend

(95 total reviews)

Joel Bines

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72% positive business outlook

Part Time Sales/Visual employees have rated The Container Store with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 95 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Part Time Sales/Visual professionals have a good working experience there. The Container Store is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Part Time Sales/Visual professionals compared to other employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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95 reviews
1.0
Aug 12, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Pros are hourly wage, and wonderful customers...lots of great people work here...but that is changing too. Today I was speechless to find out that one of the really great employees left our company. She was there 9 or 10 years and was one of those really great sales people. She welcomed me to the company when I joined. Our customers loved her and she had a way about training and selling in a welcoming way. She was one of my biggest Pros. I feel sad as the Pros keep walking out the door. The once contagious air of excitement is turning into the air of no one cares anymore.

Cons

We keep losing all the great ones. One by one they seem to walk out the door after they can't take anymore of phonyville, USA. The cons are all together outweighing the pros. Every week I get my paycheck I wonder if it is still worth it. Lack of energy, excitement and fun that used to exist here is gone. Managers at our store are incredibly gifted with spin. They put a spin on anything unpleasant and try to leave you thinking whatever they want you to think. Interesting that they hire smart people and then try to get you to let them think for you..

2.0
Jun 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great co-workers, both full and part-timers. Decent starting hourly wage compared to other retail sales jobs which pay minimum or just above. At the time, a great employee discount.

Cons

Management that was breathtakingly condescending at times. Hypocrisy in the stated values of The Container Store ("we love and trust out employees, you guys are great") versus actuality. For example, I was used to years of working places where I have the keys to the businesses and am entrusted with lots of classified materials and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of equipment. As an employee of The Container Store It was degrading to not be able to have the doors unlocked for us to leave at night without being fully searched. Also we were encouraged to skip legally mandated breaks, out the fear that taking our breaks would be used against us when deciding who would be able to get better hours or make it to full time.

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