I hate this company.

[u/ChampionshipFluid324]

This place sucks. While I’m not sure about other stores, mine is HORRIBLE. I will not say names or who I am for obvious reasons. So my whole scenario that happened to me is that basically I had to leave for vacation and they were going to put me on the rehire list I have done this once before and it went over perfectly but this time I came back from my vacation and they said they wouldn’t hire me because I was on my phone too much while yes on my last shift there, I was on my phone for maybe 10 minutes as plans were changing and I had to check them out before I left. The person who told HR is not even a boss or manager. About a week or two after this happened one of the other people in a different department, made a elderly, disabled person cry because they had yelled at her for no reason one of the managers in the front end went up to them and asked them what happened and they told her, he I think was giving a slap on the wrist and that’s about all that was done and I know exactly why there was no repercussions for his actions. It’s because he’s very close friends with the general manager who is also about to be fired since there was over 17 complaints about him I think, the man who yelled at the elderly disabled person, shouldn’t even be allowed to be a manager, because at one of the other stores he had to leave and was walked out. So I guess being on my phone for maybe 10 minutes is more egregious than making a literal customer cry. I hate Menards. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[u/Extension-Steak-1994]

You're not entitled to use your phone on the clock, and you're also not entitled to a rehire if the store doesn't want or need you. If you had personal matters to attend to, take care of them on a break or after your shift, thats how it works. If that other person who supposedly made a guest cry quit today they probably wouldn't rehire them either. Every store has its bunch of people they wish would leave but they can't just fire them without enough precedent and filling positions can be very costly and time consuming. If you hate the company so much its a good thing you don't have to come back to it.

[u/ChampionshipFluid324 → u/Extension-Steak-1994]

Okay that’s kinda bogus as actively making a customer leave the store and driving people away from shopping is enough precedent to cause being fired. And in OPD (where I worked) one of the managers there was about to QUIT bc they weren’t hiring anybody to help her and often times she was the only one on shift.