Untrained Corporate management - Manager Russell Stover Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2014
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Pros

Was a great company when I started to manage a retail store for them.

Cons

Unknowlegeable retail and mismanaged direction from the new corporate staff. You need to have a PhD to work there. Push Here Dummy and take a picture was requested on all their decisions they wanted to implement in their stores. You were not allowed to manage your store at all. The title of manager was a joke! They micromanage you! That is because they did not know what they were doing at the corporate! They never managed a retail store!

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Cons

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