Not worth it unless you need the cash - Assistant Manager Spirit Halloween Employee Review

2.0
23 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

30% employee discount, pretty easy to learn management processes, and $3/hour bonus during store setup/teardown and critical weeks before Halloween

Cons

Scheduling is inconsistent, prior to store opening you're getting your schedule day by day. After setup is complete, hours are cut until the last few weeks before Halloween. Setting up and merchandising the store is physically taxing and in a very hot environment. Depending on when you start it's only a 3 month temp job (including upper management) so when they tell you there's "opportunity for advancement", it's a complete lie. Probably an acceptable wage for a shift supervisor, but seriously underpaid for an assistant manager. Management will not communicate goals or deadlines but expect you to already know somehow and will blame you if not achieved.

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Wonderful Hours Tactful and Invested Management In depth training Lots of job opportunities

Cons

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2.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Corporate credit card, overnight travel and meals paid for, mileage to and from stores

Cons

You are a general manager of all 3-5 stores, you are salary while your managers are hourly and cannot work overtime. You have zero work life balance. Mileage is under the IRS standard rate at $.48 a mile and they subtract 20 miles each day for “normal commute”. You have to organize the set up and tear down with little outside help. Those days are 12-16 hours in all conditions. They dangle a bonus of up to 7x your weekly wages ($1025) so 7125 max but they take over half out in taxes. A colleague of mine was fired because corperate watch her leave early on the camera systems to go to another store and they assumed she just wasn’t working. Work conditions consist of abandoned building without ac or heat, black mold and constantly told to lie to fire and building codes officers to open stores on time.

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