The Container Store reviews

However, with the advent of changing to a publicly held company, that ethos continues to be trotted out in marketing campaigns; however, the internal world has changed. If you are part-time, unless the geographic area is expanding, you are going to be in that role 20 hrs per week indefinitely. Full timers are former managers in their own right. The model is doomed to failure because eventually the overvalued (and it is overvalued) company as a publicly held firm will eventually have the rubber hit the road in terms of the culture having to change. It is already happening. The glory days of old have passed and now the associate experience is driven by whether or not management is walking the floor. Otherwise, good luck. It is maybe a year or so away from becoming mediocre.

They tend to watch the sales very carefully and if the numbers are low they will send employees home or call them to not come in. They make you buy your shirts. With a low salary it can become expensive. Management will play favorites. The employees that work the truck unloading shift have no incentive for staying on this shift. They work the hardest and don't make enough money to make it worth the hard labor. You have to drink the Kool aid that they call training. Having a store meeting early Sunday morning to tell everyone how wonderful the company is, is not trainng. Also, they push the selling of Elfa (custom closet) but there's no incentive to sell it when a designer makes no commission. You do skilled design work and can spend hours doing it but make the same salary as the person standing at the front door welcoming customers.