Anyone Work For Hobby Lobby?

[momof1princess]

Jobs in my city are scarce (as they are in a lot of places right now) and when we went to hobby lobby today, i saw a couple of signs that said they were hiring, so i grabbed an application on the way out. does anyone work for hobby lobby? or know someone who does? do you/they like working there?

 

[testifyoncruises]

They work very hard but they have fun doing it. You will have Sundays off. They and Chik-Fil-A both posted a profit last year and continued to expand and hire. They both have very unique cultures and are a pleasure to work for.

Good luck with your search!

 

[jahexom]

My sister has been with Hobby Lobby for quite a while. She seems to like it, but I don't think the pay is much more than minimum.

 

[OK!]

I don't anymore, but I did work for them for more than a year when I was going to school. I absolutely loved my boss; his being railroaded out of the store (long story) was the main impetus for my quitting.

Things I loved about working there ...

- they actually do care about their employees and understand that employees-gasp-have lives outside of the store! Not all craft-store retailers are like that (*cough* Michael's *cough*). On holidays like Memorial Day, the 4th of July, etc., the store will be open but will close early so that employees have a chance to enjoy some of the day as well. And on Christmas Eve, they don't stay open until 7 pm and then make you stay until nearly 10 pm so that you can set the ad for the day after Christmas (again, Michael's).

- you can plan on having Sundays off. The vast majority of retailers are open 7 days a week; it's nice to know you'll be guaranteed at least 1 day off per week to spend with your family or do anything other than go to work!

- they're quick to promote if you deserve it. I became a department head in something like 3 months of working part-time because I worked hard and familiarized myself with as much of their merch as I could as fast as possible.


Things I wasn't crazy about...

- their insanely antiquated pricing system. There are no bar code readers; everything has to be keyed in by hand. That means you have to be ON THE BALL re. which items are on sale that week if you're a cashier.

- if you wind up being something like a front-end manager, their return system is even more ludicrous than the pricing system (assuming nothing has changed since I left the company in April 2007...and the last time I was in the store--which was just before Christmas--it hadn't). You have to calculate the amount to be returned to the customer by hand on a calculator and make copies of the receipts and hand-fill out forms, etc. It's beyond stupid, and I know it'll be quite costly to update the entire system in terms of repackaging everything to include bar codes, not to mention constructing a new database of all of the products, etc., but folks, come on. This is 2010, for Pete's sake.

Those were really my only 2 gripes with the company, and they affected me more than a lot of the other employees because I was also an FES in addition to being a department head. Other than that, I really enjoyed working there and still shop there quite often (and ALWAYS refer everyone to their framing department--the one in my store does excellent work and will let you know about cheaper alternatives that may end up looking better than what your original idea may have been. I love those ladies! )

If you have any questions, fire away!

 

[momof1princess]

thanks ladies minimum wage? rats, the sign said $10.00 per hour. minimum wage is $7.25 here (alabama) and i live 20-25 minutes away, so if that's the case, i'd be working for gas money to get there, provided gas prices don't keep going up, lol.

 

[OK!]

thanks ladies minimum wage? rats, the sign said $10.00 per hour. minimum wage is $7.25 here (alabama) and i live 20-25 minutes away, so if that's the case, i'd be working for gas money to get there, provided gas prices don't keep going up, lol.

That sounds about right. I don't remember how much I made when I was there, but it was more than I made at Michael's (where I was also a department head) and was significantly more than minimum wage.

 

[OK!]

Oh, and I just remembered one other thing I hated, though I think this was particular to my store--the floor was AWFUL to work on. Our store was a converted Grandpa Pigeon's (I don't know if those existed anywhere else but St. Louis) that had had a bare concrete floor. HL put their floor on top of the concrete, but there couldn't have been any kind of padding in place. My feet were SHOT after working there for a year (of course, I was also walking ca. 7-8 miles a day on that floor, too, not just standing on it). I'd have to psych myself up in the morning to take that first step after getting out of bed because the pain would be so awful.

All of the pain vanished within 3 days of my quitting working there. I probably would have stayed longer had it not hurt so darn much.

 

[HsvTeacher]

thanks ladies minimum wage? rats, the sign said $10.00 per hour. minimum wage is $7.25 here (alabama) and i live 20-25 minutes away, so if that's the case, i'd be working for gas money to get there, provided gas prices don't keep going up, lol.

I worked at one of the Huntsville stores for a couple of years. They paid way more than minimum wage at the time, so I'm sure they are paying close to the $10/hour rate now.

Hobby Lobby was a great company to work for, and I loved it. The people were really nice, and they treated their employees very well.

 

[momof1princess]

thank you all my 17 year old cousin is graduating HS soon, and looking for a new job also, so i told my aunt about this last night.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

My mother is an asst manager at the one near me. Full time people get at least $9 an hour. Maybe it is up to $10 now. She loves working there and she started as an associate in the craft dept! Worked her way up to asst manager in about 2 years time. Sundays off defintely except for once a year during inventory.

 

[daughtersrus]

- their insanely antiquated pricing system. There are no bar code readers; everything has to be keyed in by hand. That means you have to be ON THE BALL re. which items are on sale that week if you're a cashier.

I think that our store converted over to UCP scanning at least several months ago. I remember being surprised to see a scanner when I was there over the summer.

At least Hobby Lobby had prices on their items. I remember shopping at Aldi before they had scanners. The clerks had to know the price of every item and key it in manually. I commented one time to the girl and she said that it was a pain but they pay very well. I think that Aldi is still one of the highest paid retail jobs around.