Hastings Entertainment Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Hastings was a good place to work in general, the pay was not enough though."

What do you like about working at Hastings Entertainment?

"The environment"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Not a good place for primary household income"

What don't you like about working at Hastings Entertainment?

"The pay"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase pay, reduce worforce"

"When you examine where you have been you can see where you are going on the road just ahead of you."

What do you like about working at Hastings Entertainment?

"The president of the company made it his business to meet you and have a hand in your personal growth with the company. It was unfortunate the economy forced the company to downsize."

What do you like about working at Hastings Entertainment?

"I enjoy the people I work with. Luckily I work with a great team that helps each other out."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would avoid it, honestly, but if you must. Just be ready to deal with a terrible corporate structure, terrible forced scripts (that don't work) and terrible upper management."

What don't you like about working at Hastings Entertainment?

"I don't appreciate that our corporate managers are friends of friends that are from a closed down company that hired in friends and boosted their pay, causing a pay freeze on associates."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop being terrible, and start LISTENING to your associates. I promise more will get done and the morale will be higher."

"Hastings isn't really the best place to work at. Hastings hires way too many people, when we have enough people asking for more hours. The discount is good for some things, but when a new system comes out for ex., it costs employees more than the tag price, to discourage them to buy it. Hastings has a set limit of hours that a store can have altogether with all the employees. Which, when hiring more people, you'll eventually leave people with 14 hours a week (which happened at my store). You have to sell magazines, which are nothing more than an obvious scam. If you don't you'll get written up.(No one wants any magazines.) It seems like Hastings is working towards making their CSA's miserable, with their new policy where the CSA has to do all the closing duties, even if it's extremely busy, and if the store is anything like mine, the sodas are in the back room. CSA's aren't allowed in the back room without a manager going with them. Pros: you get paid.Advice: simply wouldn't recommend it."

"I went in for an interview. I arrived 20 mins early because I wanted to buy a book and some coffee.There was no one at the register, but there were three people who were in the customer service who suggested I go to the cafe to get checked out. When I asked for the manager, the person said he wouldn't be there for another hour and when I mentioned my interview she changed and said he was on his way then. The manager was 15 mins late. It was unprofessional. If I had been late, I doubt they would wait on me. I left as he was walking in."