Job Title: Store Team Leader
Location: Muncie, IN
Submitted on: 17-Feb-05
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When I was hired at Jo-Ann's it was a small and a family place to work.
As the company got larger and aquired other companies it started to
change quite a bit. It was a non stressfull place to work , have fun
with what we were doing and let us manage the store without a lot of
corp. intervention. As each month and year went by the company was
downsizing the management staff along with the hours used to run and
mantain the store to their standards. With the chanaging of CEO'S it
continued to get much tougher to keep the board, stock holders and all
the middle and upper management happy. The fun was taken out the
workplace and replaced with many corp. guidlines, policies and payroll
hours cut. When I started in this store I was running an average of 330
hours in a week, when the was expanded, the sales increased almost 50%,
the store size increased also by about 50%.With all of this you think
that I would have more houres to work with, I did not. When I left the
company I was running with 307 hours a week. The company does not
believe in promoting from within the company at all. I was turned down
for a D.M. position, they hired a man from a Quick Lube Company. He
lastred 3 momths. We went without a D.M. for almost one year. The D.M.
was also hired from the outside, he is still there. I ahd wanted to get
in the SUPER Store but could not they also hired from the outside for
management.When I left the company I was working 6 days a week and
about
60 hours. The company also was not honest about a lot of changes and
things they had done for the employees. The company always made changes
that would benifit them and make it sound like it was a good thing for
the team menbers. I really enjoyed my job, the people I worked with and
managed, but I I did not like the way the company was heading. I have
kept in contact with some employees, and they say it is not any better
now, but worse.In the begeing the dress code was pretty laid back, as
time went on it changed alot, it was all by the book. We had to buy all
of the polo shirts we could were. I left becaus I felt that there was
no
room for any growth for me.
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