Uwajimaya reviews

I can't even think of where to begin. The company has absolutely no interest in keeping employees, it seems. And there's very little reason to stay, which is why an astounding number of employees usually quit before they've even worked for 3 months. You're evaluated every 3 months on your performance (if you even make it that far without quitting, which is a feat in itself ), but these evaluations serve absolutely no purpose but to waste you and your manager's time, because there are no consequences for poor performance and no rewards for good reports. You will never, ever get a raise, no matter how hard you work. the assistant manager who had been working longer (and harder) than almost anyone in our department was making .50 cents more than me hourly. FIFTY. CENTS. is that how you're supposed to treat a loyal employee? The full-time employment health benefits are nice...that is, if you're lucky enough to get the amount of hours required. See, uwajimaya likes to cheat its employees on hours, giving them barely the amount under full-time so that they don't have to give these employees any sort of benefits. You might say, well every manager at uwajimaya isn't doing this, right? Not giving raises to ANYONE and completely ignoring schedule hours requests? You would be wrong, because this is a store wide problem in every store (at least in Washington, I can't speak for the beaverton location). However, it's not the managers' faults, which brings me to the main problem with this company: its corporate/HR division. The HR department is full of people who frankly have never worked in a retail setting, let alone know how to manage a store. Yet they completely restrict and micro manage the power and control of all the retail locations' managers. The managers can't do anything about increasing hours or increasing wages or else they'd be fired. To add insult to injury, the HR employees sometimes visit the store to flaunt how much better they are than you, and scold you for not working while you're clearly on your lunch break..illegal by the way. In other words, don't work here.

-Low wage: Uwajimaya doesn't pay well. Their starting pay is slightly above minimum wage and you get one mandatory "raise" of around $0.15 after several months. After that you don't get any raises NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU WORK. You can have an A+ review and that still wouldn't matter. They currently have what's called a "wage freeze" due to the failed opening of the Renton, Washington branch. -Poor store management: I've never seen a company with such poor management as Uwajimaya. None of the managers and store directors have any college education, therefore they have absolutely no idea about business management. All they know is what they've learned and experienced at Uwajimaya. Some of the managers don't work at all: they stay in their office, check emails, do some paperwork, play on their phones, surf the internet, let the phone ring, chit chat with coworkers, and go home. Obviously not all the managers are lazy, but most of them fall short when it comes to ethics, etiquette, professionalism, and integrity. -Poor corporate management: Uwajimaya is a family owned business so they don't care about you if you're not family or close friends with the family. They view and treat their employees like slaves. They aren't appreciative of the work that gets done. They only care about the profits and to them workers are dime a dozen. They don't even care if the stores are unhygienic (no joke) and dirty, as long as the company's making money it's all good. -Low morale: low wages, no raises, and poor management results in an unproductive work atmosphere. No one really works hard because they know it's pointless. A lot of the work gets done incomplete which later results in working harder to fill those holes. Very inefficient work space. Employees punch in, do the very minimum, and go home. The atmosphere can turn a hard working employee to an I-don't-care-anymore. This is why Uwajimaya has a horrendous turnover rate. Most employees leave after 6 months to a year. Career growth: Uwajimaya is a small company so there's not many chances for promotion. Corporate doesn't like spending money on employees so they're very hesitant on opening more positions even though they're clearly needed.