Working at A C MOORE — Reviews by Employees

I just started with this company a few weeks ago, but I do not plan on staying long. It seems that the store manager is a tyrant, and they lied to me and told me I was going to interview for a higher position, and then told me they could not offer me that position because corporate did not want someone in that position yet. then why make the offer in the first place? I wqs already warned about stupid things you can get fired for, not the norm that any intelligent person would already know, but really lame scenarios, wo needs the stress for eight dollars an hour?!

I've worked retail for nearly 20 years and this company treated their managers terribly. They expected managers to work 60 plus hours per week-six day work weeks were mandatory beginning in October and managers were never entitled to public holidays even at a later time....you never got the day, ever.
The money was OK, but when you added up all the hours worked, you were averaging the wage of a higher paid hourly employee. The Holyoke store was falling apart; roof leaks, infested with mice and just plain dirty-the company never wanted to pay to fix things or make the place clean. Staff were good, hard working people who enjoyed the product-the company exploited that common ground by increasing expectation and not paying people accordingly. My advice would be, work somewhere else.

I have worked at Ac Moore for two years now and feel very displeased on the way management treats their employees. They have no respect for one another and scream at their associates over small mistakes. I absolutely don't recommend Ac Moore as a good place to work at. I feel like their are no opportunities to expand your potentials. Especially the Ac Moore at Rockville, Md, Diane the store manager is probably one of the worst mangers in the whole retail stores she smokes in the storage room all the time, tries to put you down in every way she can, screams at you in front of customers and even though there are other managers she believes she should make all the decisions. I really hate this job, fortunately I'm almost done with college and i can find my self a professional job and the old hag Diane can rot at Ac Moore.

PAY: The pay was alright. I started out at $0.25 above minimum wage, which was kind of nice.

RESPECT: I got pregnant during the middle of my first year working here. I got sick sometimes, and my boss would just expect me to act like I didn't have hormonal fluctuations and a baby growing inside of me. She once actually TOLD me (after I threw up and said that I needed to leave) that she wanted to demote me because I was unreliable due to pregnancy. I don't think she has ever heard of ADA, FMLA, or worker's rights.

BENEFITS: There wasn't much for hourly workers. I think we might have an IRA we can pay into, or health benefits for those who work over a certain number of hours, but it wasn't really worth it.

JOB SECURITY: Oh, yeah. There was job security. You can keep your job as long as you can stick with their bullshit.

WORK/LIFE BALANCE: I never really had a problem here, though I know that other people did.

CAREER POTENTIAL/GROWTH: Seriously? I didn't see any growth here. You can get as far as you want at the store level by playing by their game and showing up a little early, but there's really nothing more. Who wants to work retail all of their life?

LOCATION: It was close to where I lived and was prime target for the Canadian buses.

CO-WORKER COMPETENCE: A lot of gossip and chatter, yes, but there wasn't much in terms of intelligent conversation. I think I am more used to the college crowd than this one.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Aside from the wonderful smells of holiday sachets, it just wasn't all that pleasant.

I work at one of our stores in NY. Our previous manager left, and they hired some corporate import who is making all of our lives miserable. He has basically forced 4 people so far to quit, and more of us are leaving by the day. He is absolutely cruel and demeaning to all employees, and lacks any respect for any of them and refuses to defend them under any circumstance. He has reduced more than one of them to tears due to this abuse. It will be a blast when all of us quit and he's left standing with no one. But, in the meantime, all of us are getting in touch with the Business Abuse Hotline. It is important that all employees stand up to any sort of verbal abuse and it shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, especially by a supervisor. The number is (888)662-5025.

The police had to be phoned in today because he refused to do anything about a violently hostile customer berating one of our fellow employees. It is not alright to sit by idly, we are all human beings!

I work at a new store with a manager who is awful who has no respect for her employees. She blames others and will never take responsibility for her self. She tells us we are to slow and we don't know what we are doing. She buys lunch for only one emloyee and no one else. She brakes the rules and covers them up for her own job secerity. She needs to step up and be a good manager if at all possiable. she needs to stop showing favortism and treat eveyone equal. She needs to stop gossiping with her canary florist who tells on everyone and stop believing everything that is told to her. people don't want to be there with her when she is there everone is happy when she is gone. For what you get payed from a c moore is not worth putting up with her but then there is me who needs to help support my family and needs a job but if i didn't i would tell her what a horriable person she is and shame on ac moore for letting her continue to act like this to her employees.

Finally a move in the right direction. FIRING corporate rats that blamed the front line store management for all the store problems/issues IS a move in a positive direction. One corporate guy was notorius for firing good management to cover his own indiscreations and laziness. Just goes to prove what comes around goes around.

If I had known at the start that this company was run( at the corporate level, to include DM'S) by an inept group of family members and old hangers on from retail past, I would never have applied to work there. But I did and it sucked the life out of me. They fire on a whim,they have no respect for the employees. They set thier people up for failure, 65 hours a week,3 irons ,6 day work week , constant negative feedback and threats.
Jack Parker I suggest you read the EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES.I feel you are kept in the dark by your corporate guys(dm,vp).I liked Jack ,he was a man with a vision AND IT IS A DISGRACE WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HIS COMPANY.