Pride Reviews

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

Pros – *The pay is okay for a last resort job, especially for over night
*They give raises: just keep bugging your manager
*My regular customers were great people
*Offers benefits to full timers
*My STORE manager was great
*Corporate is a little more lenient with overnight

Cons – *Excellent work ethics are meaningless to corporate
*No advancement opportunities unless you are willing to work in Springfield and start off as a 'Lead Cashier".
*They hire anyone and everyone
*Managers are over worked and abused often
*There is a massive lack of communication between corporate and stores

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate better.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – I've heard good pay for overnighters I didn't get to see it myself.
Willing to work around your schedule; probably because they are desperate for staff?

Cons – Training program is a joke.
Most of the staff seemed to not enjoy it.
Tell you card basically everyone; you do; now you get fired for over carding.
Managers seemed over worked with unusually high expectations on their head.
No breaks; seem to think that a paid 10 minute break every 2 hours compensates you for that,
Overnighters don't get breaks; as they are the only ones in the store for 8 hrs.
If a person doesn't come in for their shift to relieve you; you are automatically expected to cover it.
Archaic point of sale system; can assign you a finger print in their punch in system but not have computers that can do sales themselves.
If you are training what your trainers(no matter who they are) say can and will get you terminated
Won't provide you with a paper W2 during tax season but will give you a ton of papers in training.
If you are deathly ill or in the hospital better find coverage for yourself.

They tell you to card anyone you think isn't a mature adult automatically making it subjective yet you will get fired if you don't card people they think aren't a mature adult. Also you can undercard and then somehow overcard?

I should have listened to the reviews here when I first read them; oh well made a couple days of work off of it I suppose?

Advice to Senior Management – Be like most companies set a standard age to judge by when it comes to carding. Also why not put some of that money for the community into an updated register system?

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

Former Employee – worked at Pride full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Will pay well coming into company, a lot of good people work for the company

Cons – 1 man runs an empire like a god. Two people at the top of the company are out of touch! they are mean evil people who speak badly about employees to other employees and think they are smarter than everyone else... they blame everyone else for their failures

Advice to Senior Management – Stop firing the good people and keeping your useless backstabbing puppets. Value your employees, start developing people instead of putting them down in front of others and treating them like dogs.

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

Former Employee – worked at Pride full-time for less than a year

Pros – Absolutely none. A very quick job. They don't do background check, call references, do drug tests...But the pay is ok... keep looking for another job

Cons – Where do I start?
They watch you every minute you work. They fire people because you don't smile enough. Everyone is in continual fear of losing their jobs. If you last a month without being written up or suspended... it would be a miracle. Best advice... go in...smile and keep looking for another job... and by the way there is audio recording. Security for the employees is none existent. ...

Advice to Senior Management – Close it down... Bob go on a permanent vacation...and start over with people who know how to run a company and care about their employees.

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

Current Employee – been working at Pride full-time for less than a year

Pros – Absolutely none, just a paycheck with many headaches.

Cons – Very unprofessional, poor morale, they put nothing in writing, as they do not keep their word on anything, everyone is treated poorly and not respected. Expectations are unrealistic and the atmosphere is stressful. Everything is micromanaged and I don't know how this company stays in business with the way they treat their employees. Would not trust anything they say or promise you. Turnover rate of employees is very high.

Advice to Senior Management – What goes around comes around. Learn respect and professionalism. Treat employees as valued human beings.

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

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

Pros – None, just a paycheck, that's it.

Cons – Criticized daily
Terrible employee morale
You can put in as much effort and provide consistently good work, but it will never be "good enough"
The owner thinks he's the smartest man alive...when in fact that's not the case whatsoever.
You are constantly forced to "dumb things down" and to "keep it simple" for the "idiots" that work for the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Pointless...because they will never change.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pride full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Thank god the check doesn't bounce.

Cons – Everything is micromanaged by Bob Bulduc.
Managers have zero say in what happens.
Doesn't matter how much experience you have or how long you worked there. Any Friday could be your last day. People are fired every Friday. Everyone is treated like a piece of poop. He even cuts people's pay if he doesn't like you.

Advice to Senior Management – Haha. Managers mean nothing in the company besides they work free overtime aka salary. They are all bobs peons. I don't no how someone could be such a prick to everyone. Karma should catch up.

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

Former Employee – worked at Pride full-time

Pros – Can't think of any. Outside of working with some great people not in management.

Cons – They will Micromanage you to death. Horrible morale. They will yell and berate you all day long. Nothing you do is ever good enough. They will lie to you to get you in the door, but once you're in, the honeymoon ends pretty quickly. The turnover in this company is 90%. The most senior person there now is still only 6 years and it goes downhill quickly from there

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

Current Employee – been working at Pride full-time for more than a year

Pros – Please read my, "Cons". This is a tough place to work at. Sunday night, when you think about going to work Monday morning, you'll think, "I've got to find a different job".

Cons – A widekly read, and well known western Massachusetts business newspaper hailed Pride Stores' CEO as its western Massachusetts 2010, "Entrepreneur of the Year". Pride Stores deserves attention, but not the kind that particular Massachusetts business journal gives it.

Pride Stores' work environment is a hostile one. Without any question, the most hostile workplace I've ever worked in. Pride Stores' senior management manages in the, "I'm thinking of a color", style. That's alaways bad. At Pride Stores it's partcularly bad because nobody will direct you. They'll be there when you're done though. To judge you. You know your nightmare about not taking the class but being forced to take the final exam? Same thing. But at Pride Stores, you're awake. Not good. Not good, at all.

You've worked at other places. Maybe lots of other places. In your other places, you had a "job". Something with a title, and duties. Something that defined your role where you worked. At Pride Stores you don't have a “job”. You do whatever Pride Stores' senior management tells you to do. "So what", you say. "Isn't it the same way everywhere?" Please understand, Pride is different. Your, "job" sometimes changes hourly. Oh, and when your job changes, you have no idea what to do. Often, what you're asked to do, you've never done before.

People who work, depend on a paycheck. Pride Stores' employees are the same. Does Pride Stores return its employees' loyalty? Nope. I've watched while every week, good, conscientious people are shown the door. Planning on settling in, earning a steady wage and building for your future? Forget it. Any hour of any day, it could be your turn. Out you go.

I know what you're thinking: "It's a big company. It's got 40 stores and a big commercial fleet operation. I'll blend into the place, keep my head down, do my work. Everything will be fine." Don't think that. Pride Stores is not that place.

Entrepreneur of the year? Seriously? Not by any measure.

Advice to Senior Management – I don't have any advice to give.

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

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

Pros – Paycheck. Little else to say.

Cons – Miserable environment. Don't even bother learning people's names. Half of them will be gone before you leave yourself. By the time I left, I was embarrased to tell others I worked for the company. Perfectly good people are gone when you come in on Monday. Did they leave with no notice, or did they get booted? No one knows or cares because turnover is huge.

Advice to Senior Management – Some day there will be no one left in the area for you to hire.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend