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The Container Store

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It's not a Fortune 100 company anymore: it's just another retail gig. - Anonymous employee The Container Store Employee Review

3.0
Nov 3, 2008
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The Container Store has lots of interesting customers, staff and products. Employees rarely get yelled at by customers or managers; managers seem to actively avoid confrontation with employees. Because of this, it can be a very easy retail job, with lots of free time to daydream or just do nothing. You get to be creative in finding solutions to customer's organizational problems. The products for the most part are decent, not garbage. The company makes some effort to be nice to its employees. The stores are nice and big. You are scheduled to do a variety of things for many of your shifts.

Cons

For supposedly being a Fortune 100 "Best Company to Work For", there are incredibly little upward mobility opportunities. Almost all the managers are hired from outside the company, so they are totally lost for the first six months, and then usually quit before a year because it is so awful. Therefore, there are horribly inexperienced and impractical management. The whole company is really very awkward: they are always trying to reinvent the wheel, so nothing works. Like not even the cash registers. Why can't they just do things the way all retailers do? They want to be unique, but the result is a very amaturish company. There is also all the work/live balance problems of retail, which is relatively unavoidable.

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Pros

Friendly environment, prioritizes staff safety, and offers several benefits.

Cons

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Pros

Everyone from director level on down in my department was great. Very collaborative. Gave you autonomy to do and try new things.

Cons

Where do I start…Sr. Leadership is TERRIBLE. I mean absolutely horrific. No direction and plans were changing at the drop of a dime after the BB&B “merger”. You could feel the shift in the culture, just NASTY attitudes and taking the employees for granted. The new CEO and the rest of Sr. level execs acted like everyone was just expendable workhorses. They touted reopening the headquarters cafe as some awesome benefit so they could bring people back to the office full time. If you’re going to be bullish and require everyone back, have some guts and just do it. But don’t act like a cafe is some life changing benefit to get everyone excited. Anyway, blind leading the blind. The merit increase or raises - non existent. No 401k match. Nothing positive because the company is so broke. The new store concept sounds a mess. Save yourself and don’t even apply, let alone accept an offer. Joel Bines is no longer the CEO. He was a great guy and I think he had great ideas. Marcus Lemonis is the new CEO and I would give him a thumbs down.

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