Managements makes it or breaks it - Department Head Hobby Lobby Employee Review

-Borderline abusive work environment -Short sighted management -High turnover rate -Short staffing -Only hire part-time and make people "earn" part time despite being severely understaffed and having open full-time positions -Large pay gap between part-time and full-time positions doing the exact same tasks ($5.00/hour difference) -Individual raises get reabsorbed if there is an overall wage increase. -Raises for certain positions (full time framer/bookkeeper) are delayed, sometimes not being invoked at all or until one "proves themselves." -Pay is less competitive than they believe, so expectations are unreasonable -Technically illegal expectation of having to be 10 minutes early or you get locked out of the building in the morning, despite only being allowed to clock in 5 minutes early, resulting in 5 minutes of wage theft or forcing you to be late since they won't open the doors until the moment that you're supposed to have clocked in, and the time clock is about a 2-minute walk away not including locking up your belongings. -Rampant favoritism -Management constantly moves the goalposts or gaslights employees -Inconsistent disciplinary action depending on the employee (see favoritism) -Expected to stay 3-4 hours past scheduled shift if the store is behind (which it frequently is due to short staffing and increased send out freight) -Workers are expected to pick up the slack of "favorites" who do little to no work and get no disciplinary action for it -Coworkers ridicule workers who take federally protected breaks or don't stay past their scheduled shifts as being "entitled" and "not team players." -Management yells at people for not meeting expectations and employees are expected to handle said explosive outbursts calmly, without any reaction, and not to "take it personally" -No vision insurance -No birth control coverage -HR approved nepotism -PPTO (Paid Personal Time Off) use is up to Store Manager discretion. They pretend it isn't, despite it saying so right in the employee handbook. At my store, the Store manager has decided that it can only be used as sick time. Family or pet deaths, or sudden childcare issues, have been denied -Vacation accrued must be used in 40-hour intervals; there are no "vacation days" allowed -Workers with COVID are encouraged to come back to work as soon as legally allowed, despite either their well-being or any concern their coworkers might have with getting sick. Those with any other illness are encouraged to work if they can regardless of their contagiousness -Closing shifts last as long as the manager on duty decides, which can be until 11 pm in my experience. If they expect a store visit from a regional manager, it can be even later -Scheduling "doubles" is routine -There is zero work life balance -Expected to do many different jobs throughout the store that regularly get added without anything removed for no compensation whatsoever. -Nearly impossible to work 2 jobs as maximum flexibility is required to get the job and only one week of the schedule is out at a time, posted only 3 days before the schedule is actively being worked -Sundays off due to religious reasons except for when it benefits the company to work without customers in the store (inventory counts, store sets, etc) -Miscommunication between managers leads to a lot of confrontations and double work -No scanning barcodes, every price must be manually typed which backs up lines -No aisle numbers so you have to walk customers everywhere -Website is almost unusable -No unnatural hair colors allowed -Human error is unnecessarily invited, yet also disciplined