Canadian Tire Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire full-time for more than a year

Pros – Can't think of any right now.

Cons – Hours, Pay, Safety issues, Management problems, dangerous equipment failures.. you name it.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't own a franchise if your not willing to put money into it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -flexible scheduling (although I suppose this would depend on the individual store manager)
-If you stay with the company for 10 years you may just get promoted to manager and get $1.50/hour over minimum wage! oh wait, this is probably a con....

Cons – -After many years, I was still getting minimum wage because instead of giving raises at certain intervals as stated in the employment contract, raises were given just before minimum wage increases.
-Unstable scheduling which sometimes changes multiple times per day
-Management's "my way or the highway" attitude
-Many violations of health and safety laws
-Management unclear on local labor laws
-Unstable hours (never 40 hours per week)
-Unsafe conditions (example, filling car batteries with a siphon hose)
-My 1st day of training was the manager saying "those are customers, go nuts" then walking away
-Worst example of poisoned work environment that I have ever come across
-Scheduling is often changed during your day off without being told so you now have to be in at 8:00 AM instead of noon, but you aren't told, or better yet giving employees shifts when they weren't scheduled to work.
-You will never get 2 days in a row off (if you do, refer to above point)
-In more than 5 years I MAY have had 2 weekends off
-Employees regularly being told to stay later/leave earlier due to poorly made schedules

Advice to Senior Management – Step down and let people manage the business who know how and have proper training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire part-time for less than a year

Pros – Dealing with the public is always fun
Work goes by quickly
Nice to have a job at all
Job relatively simply

Cons – Felt exploited as was put on 5 hour shifts without a break and never more hours than that so my breaks never had to be paid
Standing for 5 hours straight
Had a very negative and short-tempered manager
Was given very few hours in a week despite being entirely free, partly so I never had to be paid benefits because I could never be full-time with those hours (similar situation all around the company)
Employees that had worked there for years were looking for other jobs because their hours were being cut down

Advice to Senior Management – Fire people and give others more hours and more benefits to encourage employee loyalty
Bring back motivational bonuses
Ensure group ideas sessions happen more often and changes are actually implemented

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire

Pros – great staff and great friends made

Cons – no room to advance and owner never got involved with staff

Advice to Senior Management – talk to your people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Canadian Tire

Pros – The only good thing about this place was the people (excluding some of the managers) that I worked with, they were all really nice.

Cons – Offers minimum wage to experienced workers
Managers treat people like dogs
Greediest company I have ever worked for
No raises, rewards or benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Start treating employees with a bit of respect, you can get much more out of them that way. Consider offering people maybe less than minimum wage.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire

Pros – Great colleagues
Canadian Company
Great location in Toronto (right on Subway line)

Cons – Horrible senior management - to focused on how to make themselves more powerful/important and no ability to inspire the organization

More of a collection of fifedoms than a modern business... turf wars abound and hierarchy ultimately rules

Organizational changes were literally every 6-9 months as senior team seemed to believe that it was the organizational structure that was failing to deliver not their lack of communication and leadership

Talent was not recognized, literally every team member on my team that was rated a high performer or high potential left to significantly more senior roles in other major organizations (many of which are much more highly thought of than CT)

Advice to Senior Management – Cut out at least 2 layers of senior management - I had worked at a world renowned multinational that was 10 times the size and spread around the globe before joining and there were fewer levels between the CEO and individual contributors than at CT. Get focused... stop trying to be all things to all people and last but not least come out of your offices and talk to the people you are supposedly leading!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Canadian Tire

Pros – If you are someones pet you will move up really fast. Otherwise its a turtle race.

Cons – Unless you are not someones pet, you will not be moving up. It was getting ridiculous to be working with support teams whose manger changed twice within a six month timeframe! They would scramble to catch up. Once she was up to speed, its off to their next 'assignment'.

MANY people have left because they were not their managers/directors/VPs pet.
They churn through employees pretty fast as pay scales and employee development are minimal. Just look at the revolving senior management goes through!

The politics here are ridiculous. Depending on your department you may been dumped on, or dumped on by another team that was previously dumped on.

If your nose isn't brown, be prepared for your a whole lot of BS to deal with.

My director did not go to bat for my team either when another team started chirping. This still bothers me to this day.

Advice to Senior Management – Its called Canadian Tire... not China Tire.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Canadian Tire

Pros – Convenient work location along the TTC subway line. Most colleagues were recent grads, there was a good social life as a result.

Cons – Middle management teams were not cohesive. Performance objectives were different, teams were treated as support rather than an essential component. There were numerous times where job related information was withheld from analysts from management as well. Being paid poorly is one thing but treated poorly as well with limited development opportunities was too much to accept as part of this package.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the flow of information, remove the silo culture in the company. Ensure middle management has the 'people' skills to make analysts feel like an essential part of the team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend