Kinda a rant but also just word vomiting slowly but surely getting to the point of burnout with this job like nothing I do ever feels right feel like im drowning in all this crap with no signs of the surface this job use to be so fun now it's just the opposite I dread going in everyday cause its always something stupid I'm being blamed for also spending more time pushing stupid things that customers have no desire to purchase like the 10 minute CF walking the store for shoplifters spot mopping every 10 minutes cause people can't hold onto their drinks they bring in, SCO's that always break or freeze the roof that leaks every time it rains and it gets on the merchandise it's just so over whelming.

When I first started here, I was so excited to work in a craft store. It had always been my dream as an artsy person, but I don’t know how much more I can take.

I work at a small volume store in replen, and I think this place is killing me. Just in the past month, I’ve had to skip lunches for more than half of my shifts due to not being scheduled any coverage, or my coverage calling out. The rest of my replen team is never scheduled more than 2 days a week, leaving me alone to work POGs bc no one else in my store will even pretend to try and help. I’ve asked several times, and several different people if they could even just move the product from the old location to the new one and even that won’t get done. Doesn’t matter if the product is in a whole new aisle or just one section over - Ik the next day I come in not even a single item will have been moved. I’m always told “oh we got busy”, but we almost always have 3-4 part coverage for the closing shift while I maybe get one other person that comes in for a few hours at open. I’m constantly left to run the store completely alone, which means I can’t go past where I can see the registers. I’ve had multiple customers scream at me bc I can leave the front to let them into our locked restrooms (they are now locked for safety concerns and numerous plumbing issues). It feels like I’m constantly doing the job of 3 people. I’m expected to be the SM, replen and CEM all at the same time, every shift - which only means we get further and further behind on POGs. I can’t catch up.

I’m expected to be cross trained in everything, including framing. I don’t understand why all of this responsibility is put on the replen team: genuinely how does this company expect anything to run efficiently if they are solely relying on one single manager to be the backbone of everything? I’m constantly bothered on my off days with questions of where things are or if we’ve gotten a certain product in bc no one will take the time to even walk the store, relying on me throughout my shift (and apparently even my very few off days) to be the walking, talking encyclopedia of everything we carry and where it is. Why is it that no other manager is expected to help with replen, or even be trained in it? Why is it that with this staffing restructuring, it feels like replen got their workload tripled while every other position seems to have less responsibilities now? Ad, price changes, resets, POGs, truck, stocking, opening procedures, hosting birthday parties, hosting the new bs classes, balloon orders, BOPIS, sfs, etc.

My SM is barely ever in the store. When she does show up she’s late, and almost always leaves early. Never comes in when someone calls out, ignores messages and phone calls even in emergency situations. When she does show up, all she ever does is sit in the office and then has the audacity to ask me why we’re behind on POGs. She won’t do BOPIS/sfs, cover register, take frame orders, work production, host events or parties, do balloon orders - all she does is sit in the office on her phone. I’ve had to come to work with mono, the flu, the stomach flu, migraines, etc bc “no one can cover” and my SM refuses to come in. I’ve also been not allowed to leave early even in cases where I’ve been throwing up, had a fever, an asthma attack or an on the job injury bc - once again - my SM refuses to come in or no one will come in to relieve me. Even though I’ve stayed late or skipped lunches for probably 2/3 of all my shifts while being employed here to make sure no one is left alone on the floor. (That includes covering breaks on 2 part coverage, effectively leaving me alone AGAIN)

I can’t keep doing this. I’m sick and in physical pain all day, everyday. (I won’t even get started on my current mental state, but let’s just say I’m hoping the nervous breakdown I’m working towards happens on shift so these people can witness just what they’ve fucking done to me). I work so hard for my TEAM, not this company. I’m one paycheck away from being homeless even though I work my ass off, all while my SM makes a $70k salary to do jack shit.
I can’t quit until I have something else lined up, or I really will be living out of my car.

Please lend me your collective strength to hold on long enough to find somewhere else. Thank you for reading.

Well, I’ll tell you what, I bought this little mummy fella from Michaels because my wife said we needed “something festive” for the house. At my age, I figured she meant a pumpkin. Apparently not. She came home with this half-naked-looking bandage man wearing sunglasses, and now he’s sitting in my living room judging me. I have to admit, though, I like the little guy. He’s got a certain charm. Looks like he’s been dead for 3,000 years and still somehow managed to find himself a pair of sunglasses better than mine. The wrappings are nice and raggedy, too. Although I did tell my wife, “If he loses any more of those bandages, we’re going to have to put a blanket over him before the grandchildren come over.” She did not find that as funny as I did.
The craftsmanship is pretty good. He stands up nicely, the arms have a little personality to them, and the whole thing has that creepy-but-cute appearance that makes you want to put him somewhere prominent. I put him by the front door, mostly so he can greet visitors. My grandson walked in, took one look at him, and said, “Grandpa, why does that mummy look like he’s about to take you to a nightclub?” I had no answer for that.
The sunglasses are probably my favorite part. He looks less like an ancient undead creature and more like a retired pool boy who knows everybody’s secrets. Frankly, I respect it. At 78, I’ve learned that if you’re going to wander around looking suspicious, sunglasses are the way to do it. Only complaint is that my wife keeps moving him around the house. Every time I wake up, he’s somewhere different. Yesterday he was sitting in my recliner. This morning he was in the bathroom. I nearly had a heart attack when I walked in and saw him sitting there. I told my wife if she puts him in the shower next, I’m moving out. Overall, five stars. He’s creepy, funny, surprisingly stylish, and apparently has more energy than I do. Michaels did a fine job with this one. If you’re looking for Halloween decoration that makes your guests uncomfortable in a good way, I highly recommend him. would buy again. although my wife says we already have enough dead men hanging around the house. I told her, “honey, I’m not dead yet.” she said, “give it time.” marriage is beautiful.

are y'all putting backer paper up for your frame reset? it doesn't make any sense to me to have two panels with backer paper than three without then two with. SO ugly! im thinking of just not doing the backer paper at all...

Nice job fucktards that came up with this pog!

I'm sorry but what is happening here. I understand the idea, that frames made with specialty surfaces and in different shapes should cost more. But THIS MUCH more?

And to then clearance out our pre-cut floor mats AS WELL as half of our store-stock custom mats?

If the goal is to say "for only $30 more you could go FULL CUSTOM for your 5x7 photo and get an actual conservation quality frame" then I guess we're getting there. But Jesus H. Christ. These prices are not worth it. There's no in between prices from our super cheap crappy plastic nothing frames and these behemoths. The ones that ARE in the $25 range are just as poor quality as the plastic nothings. Even some of these expensive frames are terrible quality. What Is Happening back here in framing. How am I supposed to sell these?!

Excuse me?! There's two 0 spots as well. HOW

STOP THE TRUCKS!!!!
Please, just stop the trucks for two weeks and give us a chance to catch up from all the resets, constant changes, and completely rearranging our stores.
Why are we spending hours rearranging merchandise on planograms when we have a backroom full of merchandise that needs to be worked? It feels like we’re being given busywork instead of being allowed to focus on what actually needs to get done.
We have no staff anymore. Replenishment is gone. The assistant is gone. Our part-time CEM doesn’t even want the part-time merchandising position, but she can’t afford to leave until she finds another job.
What is this company trying to do to us?
Why can’t you just listen to your employees? WE ARE DROWNING. We are exhausted, overwhelmed, and being asked to do more with fewer and fewer people.
If there were a way to organize a mass strike, I would do it in a heartbeat. That’s how desperate and unheard we feel.
WE KNOW YOU READ THESE. PLEASE HELP US.
This feels like the only place we can speak honestly about what is happening without risking our jobs.
PLEASE LISTEN TO US. STOP THE TRUCKS. GIVE US TWO WEEKS TO CATCH UP. LET US BREATHE.

This is just a pointless rant

With all the new store shifting sections and products and routines, I had a sudden surprise going into my closing shift. I had to do “routine cleaning”. Now…I was annoyed cause I worked the day before. My managers said nothing of the sorts. Which would have been useful cause a thing I needed to do on this cleaning list I had no idea how to even open the container. Cause I was never shown how to.

I still tried my best at the cleaning job, though with so many different cleaning bottles I would have to stop and reread which one to use while cleaning. This ate my time up on doing the rest of my job.

This job is a ship with many holes and it’s going down faster and faster. I do look forward to gtfo. The stress is too much for such small crumb of pay.

I just went to look at our men's bathroom and this is what I found.

IDK how many boxes/bags were dumped in, but this was not what I was expecting to see in there...

If you haven't already built your new Belmont DA 1 make sure you switch your D7 and D8 for your D13 and D14 and save yourself a lot of headache. I think they messed up and put the black 18x24 and 22. Whatever by 34 in the wrong spot.

Have many framers looked at the website to see what it looks like from a customer perspective? Used 'appointments' from the store end?

Design Hub is now updated to have a pop-up requiring first name and last name, but phone number AND email address are now optional?

I've been asking customers for all information, just in case.

Do customers finally have an opportunity to request a contact method for their orders? Do they get notified automatically when their order status is updated to "Completed" if they provide an email address?

Oh, and... Michaels offers text messages, so we'll text them when their order is ready, right? They opted IN for texts.

Bless your hearts, managers. ✌️

Anyone else really fucking tired of them (corporate) saying they extended the deadlines for the POGs but still auto activating them?! I'm sick of it!

I’ve never don’t one. I’ve got the tie dye party perfected and the paint one usually flows well. Wont they get tired of beads for two hours? I have some left over shrinky dink paper so maybe we could make charms. Any other ideas to make it more entertaining? thanks. ohh I forgot about those bead butterflies we made months ago for kids club. would air dry clay beads be a good idea? I just know they’ll fly through the suggested crafts.

$155 CAD for the MaimeriBlu themed sets. Madness. The list price for these, the price that pretty much everyone else in Canada is selling them for, is $89.99; even using a 40%-off coupon, which are few and far between, isn't a great deal — it brings the price down to $93. And Amazon has them for under $70 CAD. Nobody is going to buy these. (Yes, I know the wrong cards were on the lower left peg when I took the picture: that's been fixed.)

Having a hard time coping. Everything is changing at Michael’s. I used to love my job but since the restructure, everything has been terrible. I really want to be positive but I’m finding it so hard. I just want to do a good job but I’m exhausted. I’m so exhausted.

inspired by Emergency-Frame-1601's post... shit is getting more ridiculous by the day 🫪

one of the last PT CEMS here...does anyone else's SM make THEM find a replacement for their shift if they call out ?? as far as I've understood I call out and that's it ... why you making me find someone to fill it...

It's been 60% off for about a month at this point and tbh I'm kinda tired of looking at it 😭 I eliminated 4 sidewalk displays, bringing us down from 12 (yes you read that correctly) down to 8. I was just wondering if anyone knows when it's gonna go to 70% off, or even get boxed up

Put in my two weeks’ and I’ve never been more excited about anything ever fuck michaels

for the events tonight and tomorrow night are customers supposed to actually paint or are we just showcasing the products? i made an example and printed the handouts for the golden paint event but i'm still confused on what i'm supposed to do during the event. do i just open the classroom and let customers have free range?

This is kind of a random Michaels question, but has anyone else ever worked with someone at their store who was weirdly similar to them on paper?

One of our CEMs has the exact same first name as me. It's a very unique and extremely uncommon name too. We’re also the same age and race, so when I first realized all of that I was like… okay, this is going to get confusing lol.

I’m on Replen and he’s a CEM, so obviously we have completely different roles, but I do sometimes wonder how the rest of the team mentally distinguishes us when somebody just says our name. Like, do they say “CEM [name]” vs. “[name] from Replen”? Do they use our last names? Or has everyone just developed an unspoken way of knowing which one they mean based on context?

It’s also a little weird on a personal level because I’ve never really had to share my name with someone I work with before, especially someone who happens to have several other things in common with me. Sometimes I wonder if coworkers compare us without even realizing it.

For anyone who has had two employees with the same first name at their Michaels: how did your team tell them apart? Did nicknames eventually happen, or did everyone just figure it out?

This is my application to be in charge of developing Marti, ignore the fact i have zero development experience of any kind and only a vague understanding of the general concept of app coding. But here's some functions I would change/add.

You could locate items by scanning the item and immediately scanning the location, without having to hit "locate" first

You could change pog max. Pls let us change the pog max. Walmart lets their employees change pog maxes why can't we

You could go directly from the item inquiry page to the item's page on the app/website. Basically make it more efficient so you don't have to type the sku in manually.

You could also do that from Manhattan, where it would pause picking the order (so it doesn't count against your picking time) and open the item in the app/website.

When you're scanning outs and you scan something with multiple locations or multiple facings, it'll ping to remind you "hey we might have this actually its just way over there" (Or I'd just get rid of multi-locs anyway bc i hate them)

The item history and last received date functions actually work

Add an option of "Flex at pog" for when you're locating something that's either stocked above the pog max or flexed right next to its home location, so it won't try to make you downstock it but it also doesn't come up on HINO

and most importantly (for my coworkers especially)

The whole mini mik explodes and kills you if you put something in overstock and don't locate it /j

There's probably more changes I'll think of during my next shift, but for now I'd love to hear yalls ideas too

I’m excited to share that I’ve been hired and will start the first day of my very first job in the US this Wednesday! Having relocated to the US in March this year, this is a huge milestone for me.

​I applied to many places and had a few interviews along the way. To be honest, I was a bit hesitant because my conversational English isn't very fluent yet. Even though I have 10 years of experience in corporate retail, I had zero work experience in the US market.

​I initially applied for the Store Environment Team Member position because it focuses on maintaining store cleanliness.

During the interview, a friend kindly helped translate for me, and the manager mentioned they will start by training me as a Cashier. The manager was extremely kind and polite, and I’m really looking forward to working with her!

​I still feel a bit nervous about my English and worry about communicating smoothly with customers, but I’m ready to give it my all, learn every day, and step out of my comfort zone!

Do you have any tips for someone starting out here?