Miserable - Part Time Assistant Manager Five Below Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun store, great discount, cool stuff.

Cons

I have been with the company since grand opening. I got a promotion after working there for 3 months. I have been working full time for 5 months with no benefits. We are supposed to have 4 managers and we only have 2. One is leaving. No one higher up seems to care about the store and our needs. Complaints fall on deaf ears. The hotline is a crock. You get sent to an answering service. The company only seems to care about opening new stores not helping out existing ones.

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Cons

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Pros

-20% discount -med, dental, vision benefits -20-ish minimum hours per week -genuinely can be a fun store to work in when run well

Cons

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