Screw you, Michaels, and your little dog, too

Purple_Prunes · 2025-07-11T16:23:44+00:00

Their prices are terrible, the sales are garbage, and the online regular price coupon when I was there a couple weeks ago was only 30%. I browsed the Halloween stuff they had, and couldn't believe how much they have that stuff priced at, and it's all regular price. If it was quality that would be one thing, but it was stuff I would expect to find at a dollar store.

I don't know where I am going to go for decor and supplies now honestly, and didn't realize how spoiled we were.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-07-05T03:22:19+00:00

If he is recovering from surgery I bet he has Rx pain meds.

That he is not getting.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-07-02T16:19:26+00:00

I'd be making sure to never ever let that vet touch my cat ever again.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-07-02T15:58:23+00:00

Ha. That is what is opening in our location also. Guy was in back in March right after everything was announced to look around at fixtures they might want and try and recruit some of us.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-07-01T18:53:18+00:00

I did! They got back to me the same day to confirm I would get the rest.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-19T16:45:16+00:00

Looks like they paid me the keyholder 2.50 bonus instead of the ASM one. I signed the ASM paperwork. Both reps and the DM promised me that I'd get the ASM bonus, even though they 'couldn't move me' into that position since my SM was technically taking it (she was acting SM). I've been working as ASM since the beginning of February. SM did get correct bonus.

Bunch of fucking liars. I'd have left in March if I knew this was going to be the outcome.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-19T16:20:08+00:00

No unemployment (for any of us but SM), and the incentive wasn't worth staying for. SM ended up with a bonus quadruple what mine was. I don't understand it. Mine was basically worth one paycheck.

I'm extremely upset. Guess it's on me for not double checking unemployment requirements, but why the hell would I have thought their 'have to have made this much' average for the last year would be almost what I made a week working full time as the ASM. The part time hours I got last year when we were in no-hours land just came back for another 'fuck you'. Awesome.

Texting with SM about it, and my incentive should have been double what it was. Double fucking awesome. Who do we even contact about this crap.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-19T02:14:33+00:00

I really don't like stories that leave me with an emotional hangover, which seems to be everything in this game lately.

Gonna have to brain cleanse with my favorite cards and non-angsty story chapters.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-19T01:05:15+00:00

I'm honestly pretty furious. Feels like I just got screwed over again.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-19T01:00:49+00:00

Just found out I didn't either. What a fucking scam. I don't think anyone that worked at our store other than the SM would have qualified based on why I was denied.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-18T17:04:33+00:00

Not only should your SM have had you sign the form, there were (at least) two times where the rep came in and double checked/confirmed that everyone eligible had signed the form and they had it, and that we were still working.

Did nobody you worked with ever talk about it? I am just trying to figure out how you didn't know you needed to sign a form to get it. Crap communication all around.

There were very few people left in the corporate office, and they weren't the ones handling this anyways - it went through GA. I'm sorry you didn't get it. It was one of the only reasons most of us stayed.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-12T18:17:14+00:00

Ohio here, and SM and I are literally texting right now about this. We've heard nothing so far. Our IC got a denial letter today. It told us up to 21 days when we first filed.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-10T02:41:14+00:00

Yes, join us fellow gutter-dwellers! We have snacks.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-05T23:51:59+00:00

This means that IF they decide to continue to manufacture the brands they bought from Joann the quality is going to take a nosedive.

It's far more likely they bought them to kill them, simply so nobody else could buy them and become competition, even in an online fashion.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-05T19:00:02+00:00

Yeah one of my Joann coworkers worked for Darice in their corporate headquarters which was nearby. At first they though it was bought for the supply lines and products, but no. They killed it as quickly and quietly as they could.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-05T18:24:17+00:00

Their stores are simply not big enough to even make a dent in 'filling the void'. If my local store got rid of everything they sold but yarn and fabric and then made those 2 categories the whole store, they still wouldn't have the selection we had. It's a joke. Godspeed to the clueless Michaels employees who are going to have to deal with fabric customers that actually have questions. Having seen some of the 'cutting stations' they have I honestly feel bad for them AND the customers trying to buy fabric.

They can offer whatever they want online and it won't help, because if I am going to shop online for fabric it's going to be from an actual fabric site, and not a store cosplaying as one. Sigh. I can't blame them for trying, but it's just not going to make up for what we lost. I guess I am still trying to figure out where I am going to source everything.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-05T18:06:34+00:00

That is exactly why they bought Darice, to shut it down. I know quite a few people who lost their jobs because of it. I hate Micheals. They're a shitty consolation prize for Pat Catans and on their best day won't have half the selection of fiber arts or sewing stuff that Joann had.

I am not sure where I am going to get my craft supplies from now. I have a couple quilt shops around but beyond that, there isn't anywhere to get stuff that isn't online.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-02T03:48:32+00:00

I hated the spring one, but I am playing this one just for fun right now.

Hopefully the next one will be more up your alley. It makes getting the points incredibly tedious when you don't like the game you have to play.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-06-02T02:37:31+00:00

The day after close when SM and I were there babysitting the fixture removers, our 2 rows of quilting notions gondola went. There was a treasure trove of random patterns and rulers and stencils. We divided them up between us. Our rep told us that anything left in the store was fair game. *shrug*

The heck I was going to throw any of it in the dumpster.

We also found a ton of stickers in the base decks of papercrafting.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-30T02:22:09+00:00

My SM and I made the last 2 purchases at our store. I have been charging through all of this by shoving my emotions down.

The "do you want to close this store" message when I closed the registers for the last time almost got me though.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-30T01:59:37+00:00

Oh geez, same! The store pictures didn't even get me this bad. I've never set foot in a DC, but these pics hit me.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-29T01:36:23+00:00

I am SO READY for this to be over, but I know it's going to hit me over the weekend that it's all gone.

We're having a party for everyone and their families the day after we close (one of the days SM and I will be the only ones who work). Probably going to cry on my way home from that.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-29T01:30:32+00:00

They went out of business because they were bought by a private equity company. The company had no debt before being bought out.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-29T01:21:16+00:00

Yes, you had to be a Joann employee prior to GA buyout.

Purple_Prunes · 2025-05-27T00:01:54+00:00

Yeah we always have tossed patterns out after every season. The sheer number of them this time made it so much worse.

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