Biblical
Values = F*ck your Slaves (employees) Over and Over again!
Give with
one Christian hand and Take away with the other “Christian” Hand! Oh Praise da Lord!
Hobby Lobby
Raises Minimum Wage To $10/Hr (2009)
Recently
I heard that David Green, the CEO of Hobby Lobby stores,
decided to increase their minimum wage to $10/hour. The change will affect
9,200 of their full-time employees and will cost the company about $15 million
dollars each year.
Spokeswoman Carol Troy
said they took the action because, “they have had a profitable year and want to
pass that on to their employees.” And David Green said, ““Our employees are the
backbone of our company, and we believe that giving them the opportunity to
share in our success is the right thing to do,”
Apparently
David Green is a Christian and he runs the business with Biblical values in
mind. What’s exciting is that you can see God’s hand on that business as it
thrives in an economy that is putting many businesses under. Over the last year
Hobby Lobby has actually had a significant increase in sales and they have
plans for expanding in 2009, opening 25 new stores while creating another 1000
jobs.
Jess
June 26, 2009
Being a
previous HL employee, I can give you the facts. I worked there for 4 years off
and on and they are the WORST most UNCHRISTIAN place EVER!!
When they
gave this raise to all of the full-time employees and department heads, all of
us part time employees were let go, and they are now refusing to pay us
unemployment– including two single mothers who are now living off of welfare
and having to stay at friends’ places because they can’t afford to pay rent
anywhere.
I’ve quit
twice and now been fired twice from this place. The first time, they didn’t
even bother letting me know I was fired. They refused unemployment for me then,
too.
Take my word
for it: this company is VERY good at pretending to be something it’s not.
Appearances are deceiving.
Uncle
Charlie
October 28,
2009
As a Hobby
Lobby employee for nearing a decade, I can say your experience was a minority,
Jess. Keep in mind that they’re a Christian business, but a business
nonetheless. The company pays for half of all Angel Food for full time
employees. The company doubled all 401k contributions of all employees last
year. They have a 2 full time Chaplins available for all employees. The list of
positives go on and on. Of course everything isn’t always so peachy. They do a
fine job of taking care of those who take care of them.
Tanya
January 26,
2010
After over
10 years with the companyi can say that Jess is very right about Hobby Lobby. I
chose to leave this company after such along time because instead of making my
faith stronger, it had weekend it. I was in upper management, the pay was fair
to begin with, but when you figure it up per hour, it is lacking. I was so
excited when they closed on sundays, and in the beginning it was great, but
after a few years things changed. Management in my area was made to work on
sundays, or shall i say strongly encouraged and berated if we didn’t. when i
finally left i was working a minimum of 70 hours per week, but more like 80. I
realized that family was not important to them, money was. I watched numerous
fellow managers marriages fail, or the married ones left and it was growing to
be either single men and women, or ones without children at home.
As for the
chaplins, even when my parents died i never saw or heard from them. I did try
to contact david greene after leaving to make him aware of the situations in
his store, as i don’t feel his plan was to have an environment so unfamily
friendly, but i never heard back from him, and friends who still work there say
nothing has changed.
So uncle
charley i am going to guess that your are either single, no children, or your
children are grown.
Hobby Lobby
Employee
March 2,
2010
I have
worked for Hobby Lobby for over a decade and all I will tell you is don’t
believe that everything is so great working for this company! The norm at HL is
little to nothing for raises and little to no respect for people who work hard
day in and day out!
Bev Daniel
April 17,
2010
I know a
young person who was fired because they called in sick one day and didn’t have
a doctors note. Going to the doc would have cost more money than they could
afford especially after missing a day of pay! I don’t think this was fair to a
person who has worked there over a year, was head of two departments and was a
hard worker for the company. I’ve completely lost respect for this company and
will not shop there again.
Hobby Lobby
Employee
June 18,
2010
I helped set
my store up and have been with the company since, I can’t understand how this
company can say they are Christian based but keep the majority of there
employees as part-tiimers to avoid paying them $10 an hour. I only get to work
around 25 hours a week (I beg for more hours.) Although current employees are begging
for more hours mangement is about to hire new people. I don’t understand. Why
not give your loyal part-timers a full time position. I know why because you
can split one full time position between 2 employees and save 2 dollars per
hour. I understand the concept of working your way up but in my case we all
started at the same time, work just as hard, and are just as qualified as the
employees who are getting full time pay and hours.
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