Canadian Tire Reviews

Pros

respect for employees, wide range of opportunities, reasonable compensation, collegial

Cons

terrible location for head office and terrible physical work environment in head office, still quite male dominated.

Pros

Canadian Tire is family oriented with flex hours and benefits. Amazing people to work with and located in the heart of midtown Toronto.

Cons

Management expects you to work for low salary for a long period of time before any promotions. Canadian Tire is Cheap!!!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Promote your talent based on skill set instead of years worked..... you'd stop losing your good talent if you did. There's a reason why home depot is as good as they are.

Pros

The store Management team are approachable people. They are real people who treat you like a real person in stead of just a number. They care about their employees, and help employees whenever it is needed.....except for the Sports Supervisor of my location, he seems to be unapproachable, lazy and pushes all the work on to people under him and he even has a slight bit of racism(You have to make racist jokes just to get along with him) ...BUT besides him, the Other managers and Supervisors are great, they even treat their employees as if they encourage a happy and interactive work environment. It comes to a point where you become close friends very quickly with the other associates....feels nice to work here in my opinion.

Cons

Low pay......minimum wage, very hard to get a raise, and takes at least a year to get anything that involves the advancement of your salary or even position. And even after a year, from what I hear from people who have worked for the full year, it is still hard unless a bunch of supervisors get fired or quit, which is quite rare. You really really have to show management you are incredibly serious that you want to advance. Also, when signing the papers upon getting hired, they tell you that you can be entitled to benefits if your full time....but I'm full time, and i have not been getting anything except for two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch(UNPAID)........which unfortunately is actually common as from what I heard from employees of competing stores....basic min. wage life.

Advice to Senior Management

If you're having a bad day, don't let your employees see that. For the most part, your attitude will be contagious to others. Also, if you are a supervisor....you need to lead by example. Whatever you want to see out of your employees, you must show them how it's done every day, this is what makes a great supervisor. Also, when things dont work out, and maybe your employees done something wrong, dont stand there and talk down to them, .....remember we are min. wage workers....the more you talk to us with no connection and just authority, the more of a chance we will just quit....in stead of us working harder. Employees will work hard for those who they "Respect".....NOT "Hate".

Pros

They will pretty much hire anyone and you can leave and come back as many times as you want.

Cons

I didn't receive one raise the four summers I was there or offered a management position when I deserved one.

Pros

It was close to home, and flexible hours

Cons

after two years never recieved any benefit packages??

Pros

Canadian Tire was a good place to work because it offers flexibility in work schedules, and the store is a good environment to work in. It is also a good place because it allows you to interact with a diverse number of customers and helps you develop better customer service skills.

Cons

The pay of working as a customer sevice representative is not substantial. You also have to deal with angry customers on a daily basis. Some of the work is repetitive and boring.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership at the Canadian Tire I worked at changed a few times. It was satisfactory. The manager was nice. The manager was also very funny.

Pros

Canadian Tire offers many promotional opportunities. There are many different positions and rotational opportunities so that employees can find their best fit with the company.

Cons

At Canadian Tire I believe that there are far too many people working on one task at a time. I found that they were not very efficient with their time and had too many opinions of others which backtracked the task at hand and did not help the situation.

Advice to Senior Management

I would of liked to see more concern from management during my time at Canadian Tire. I really felt that the management was consumed with their own responsibilities and had no concern or care for my accomplishments and contribution to the company.

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.

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!

Pros

Depending on your supervisor, you can have a lot of independence while working. Our supervisor had a health problem which meant that we had a lot of independence in doing our jobs

Cons

The management at our Canadian Tire was not very good. They would overhire, overbuy merchandise and then tell us that we were underperforming in selling (even though we had stacks and stacks of merchandise)

Advice to Senior Management

Ask the grunts what they think is wrong. Sometimes their opinions might not mean much, but they have an eye on why some things are the way they are