The Container Store reviews

When sales slow down, there are major cuts to part-time employee hours. The company knows this happens every year and should plan for it throughout the year so that part-time employees are not affected so much. It's impossible to pay bills on 1-2 shifts per week.

Once you're in, it's downhill from there. They train you for what they want you to do and do not train you for the many things that are available to do. Women are limited to either packing or pulling, no cutting of elfa products, no rider training, and only select few are allowed to be trained in manifesting. Once you are trained in what they want you to do, you do that same thing for 10 hours a day, day after day after day, sweatshop style. When orders are up, management still stands around with their hands in their pockets or hides out in the air conditioned offices while the ones that are actually out working are sweating their butts off in the non-climate controlled environment. The only time management speaks to you is when you make a mistake. A former co-worker told me they ranked #14 in the Fortune ratings and then less than a week after that announcement, they froze wages and quit matching 401k's indefinitely! They hand pick the employees to do the survey so no wonder they rank high, no doubt it's the corporate office people that do the survey.