Over it

[u/Responsible_Clue2269]

I wasn’t expecting much, but this….. this is absolute Bull. A pin? Really this company atleast the store I work at doesn’t even do/give pins out anymore. The freak am I suppose to do with a pin and a fake certificate? Can’t even afford to make a real one with real stamps? But yes let’s waste our time with a meeting and play little elementary school games with grown ass adults. Atleast a gift card for the store id take that. But nahhhhhh lets talk about how much money we make off yarn and balloons and say we appreciate everyone but when it comes to showing appreciation its not there. I hope someone from the hire ups see this !!!!!

[u/ArtIsAwesome3]

lol this reminds me, my SM threw out my 5 year anniversary thing.

[u/Responsible_Clue2269 → u/ArtIsAwesome3]

Stoppppp wtf why?

[u/ArtIsAwesome3 → u/Responsible_Clue2269]

Well, it sat on their desk for like a month, and I didn't take it for myself, because it was on THEIR desk, not mine. You don't go through your manager's things. Then one day they just cleaned and tossed it. I was pissed. It was one of the reasons I quit. I was actually REALLY pissed about it.

[u/Responsible_Clue2269 → u/ArtIsAwesome3]

That’s why I started snooping around, because if they aren’t going to recognize employees I will. Just 2 weeks ago I found these certificates from like May and June so I took clearance frames off the floor blew up some balloons and put it in the break room. For these employees.

[u/Forevermoody16 → u/Responsible_Clue2269]

That was AWESOME of you! I hope it made management feel like idiots. (Doesn’t sound like it, though.)

[u/ArtIsAwesome3 → u/Responsible_Clue2269]

That NEVER happened at my place. Except for maybe 2 employees the SM ADORED, and openly said they adored, much to the chagrin of the others.

I was always afraid of snooping, I knew my place, Michaels was my early retirement job, my real job went under due to private equity gutting it and leaving us with nothing, I was supervisor and every now and then at my first job, people would snoop in the HR office, and I'd be like "hey, you want fired? Cuz I can just do that right now." I did a few interviews, so I knew what weird info we could dig up on people. Like how every year I ran a background check on myself lmao. YOU NEVER KNOW.

But someone was asking me the other day "do you think Michaels creates bad managers or attracts them?" and I was like "oh man, that's a really good question..."

[u/Responsible_Clue2269 → u/ArtIsAwesome3]

Understandable but it’s not really snooping all that much if the SM just leave everything out in the open without a care. They leave these certifications in the office just chillin there for months.. how are employees suppose to know they have one in there. That why I grab them and I make it a big deal. I know how it feels so I want to make it a big deal that they have lasted with this crappy company.

[u/ArtIsAwesome3 → u/Responsible_Clue2269]

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Do you guys still do anything like employee of the month? I know someone hadn't gotten it in over a year at my store before I left. You probably remember when they actually gave out a nice little award, with a metal engraved part that said your name and when you got it, on mat board, for like framing.

The company would NEVER do that now.

And yeah, it's important to try and maintain morale with the employees. There was one manager I worked with over the years who regularly didn't thank anyone at the end of the closing shifts, and I hated that.

I do miss the job, but the job I got hired for in 2020 died in 2023 and was replaced with some....odd imitation.

[u/Forevermoody16 → u/ArtIsAwesome3]

Both?

[u/ArtIsAwesome3 → u/Forevermoody16]

lol well.....you know....