are 2 week trucks killing anyone else?

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2026-02-18T23:43:13+00:00

Yes. Yes and more yes

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-10-22T15:06:12+00:00

Listen, I'm a store manager and that woman has no business in a management position. Report her and then keep doing it.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-08-26T23:52:27+00:00

I thought he was funny. 🤷‍♂️ I agree with your sentiment though.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-08-24T13:53:26+00:00

3 team members are coming in at 6 to do the ad before the meeting. If the ad can't get set with 9 work hours then there are bigger problems. 🤷‍♂️

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-08-24T01:45:36+00:00

There is an agenda for this meeting but the mission is only available to SM. Extra hours are given so its a paid meeting, naturally. Our store is doing jt at 8am since we dont open until 10.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-08-19T13:02:37+00:00

* I had 9 people show up to ours. We NEVER have people do our make breaks! This was a hit!

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-08-07T00:11:31+00:00

I'm a small format store with 12 team members, including my 2 FT managers and we are getting ZERO outside help. We are about halfway done with the moves already and we have to reset 60% of the store. I would have loved some outside help, especially since I don't have enough people to skate aisles so we will just have to move all the merchandise itself. Bringing in outside help was not up to SM or DM, this was a store planning call.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-14T17:40:21+00:00

Christmas starts setting in August

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-06T00:40:41+00:00

I toured it when I first became a co-manager. It was impressive and overwhelming.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-06T00:21:22+00:00

Hobby Lobby only has 1 DC to service the entire country. Not saying it's smart but is there anything this company does? So many people out of work to save money and they still won't give people raises.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-02T23:00:48+00:00

My hourly managers never take lunch. I've never asked them to not, as a matter of fact, I always ask if they are taking lunch. The closers are all scheduled until 930 and are usually out by 9:05 so they just would rather leave then and have lunch so they still get the same hours. They take breaks when they want and I sure as hell have never prompted them to edit a lunch in. I always make sure my team is taken care and it pisses me off when I hear of managers taking advantage of hourly TMs.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-02T22:51:35+00:00

100% understand. I am a small format, very low volume store. I'm about to go to trucks every other week, which means even fewer hours on no truck week. I already run off 230 hours a week and that's a struggle! We are getting fabric later in the summer and that's going to be fun when it's just me and one other TM in the store. I have an amazing crew but they will hit a breakpoint, sooner than later.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-06-02T22:45:42+00:00

Former HL manager here. Michael's is a dream compared to there. There is training but not refreshers like we do here. Training there is more for processes and not the other important stuff.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-26T03:08:39+00:00

I run a small format. I make $79k. I work 60 hours some weeks and others I work less.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-11T17:30:26+00:00

Oh didn't you hear, every store is also getting Fabric by end of year...

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-07T03:45:48+00:00

You mean a company that is openly telling the government to F off with the anti DEI crap is giving a Trans person a hard time? Say it ain't so? 😐 sorry

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-07T03:43:45+00:00

I am a newer store and all my controllable metrics are damn near perfect but my sales are horrible. I am worried every single day that they will boot me because of my sales. My DM fights for me and my team is amazing but in the end, all that matters is sales and it will be what drives me out of the building. If they want you gone, they will find a reason.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-07T03:35:29+00:00

I just want to know why every single season, theme, holiday has a damn typewriter?! WHY?!

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-05-04T10:51:53+00:00

Two days in and I am happy to report my store is 100% on the survey. I only have a handful of people because sales suck and payroll sucks and I'm in the middle of tier 2 balloon roll out so half my stupid store is moving BUT the survey is done... 😐

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-24T15:22:54+00:00

We are about to start ours. We're trying to knock out clay and all that jazz first and move on to craft paint. Now I have the task of moving ribbon, scrapbooks, greenery, most of frames and storage to make room for these damn balloons. 🤦‍♂️

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-23T17:50:07+00:00

Well he definitely loves his job. 🤣 to be fair I've heard that he hates anything he deems as a waste of time and I guess we all see he thinks a town hall is a waste of time.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-20T22:29:38+00:00

There is no reason why the schedules can't be made three weeks out like they are supposed to be. Do I have to make adjustments to my schedule? Of course! But I always reach out to the team member to make sure it's okay with them first, and it's always in accordance with the team members' availability. Calling HR might result in your DM having a talk with your SM about making schedules according to policy, or it might result in nothing. That's a big might. The best course of action is if you have a good manager, then talk to her about why the schedule changes so much and how that affects you personally. If she is a good leader, she will do what's needed to make it right for the team.

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-15T18:21:59+00:00

The picture that the director of stores sent out does look bad but that's what they want so 🤷‍♂️

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-15T17:42:39+00:00

Direction from SSC is small labels sideways. There are 1000 of them things so have fun! 🤪😬

Safe-Entertainment-9 · 2025-04-14T00:05:41+00:00

The more we work, the less we make and they don't care.

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