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The Container Store

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Even During Recession, The Container Store Excels for its Employees. - Anonymous employee The Container Store Employee Review

5.0
Jul 21, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent Training for everyone. Outstanding pay across the board. Professional, hands-on senior management with an excellent open-door policy. The Container Store has found equitable ways to ensure no employee has been laid off during the recession. They consistently promote a team approach and openly share all pertinent company news and information to employees. They hire competent, highly motivated people who take pride in their work.

Cons

With higher salaries comes higher responsibilities. All employees are expected to work harder, to do more by sacrificing some of their personal time to make sure the store looks its best at all times. This can often be challenging.

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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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