Yeah our shifts were 7-5. Not terrible but there was no time left for anything else when I had an hour commute. The guys who had it worst were the comanagers. If a delivery was running late they'd be stuck waiting for the truck to get back, and they had to punch out. They worked every Saturday too and had almost no holidays besides Xmas day and Thanksgiving.

I get you. We never got protective gear unfortunately. Well, other than getting gloves at a discount.

Preach.

Yep. Mustaches only, and if you didn't have a clean shave otherwise you would get written up.

That's not the reason I was given. Everyone just told me it was in the dress code because Hardy wanted it to be like the military.

There's definitely growth potential at 84 for people who work hard. However their definition of working hard is dedicating your whole life to the store's performance. My managers were doing 70+ hour weeks with half the necessary staff constantly. I was in sales and got stuck doing physical labor and going to job sites to deliver materials despite them knowing my doctor didn't want me doing anything close to that.

The upper management was very mixed. My boss's boss was incompetent and always contradicted our sales guys and made them do stuff that cost us business.

The buildings aren't heated or cooled either, so it's hell all year at any store. Plus all promotions are based on transfers. I live in the Wilkes-Barre area and had to commute to East Stroudsburg for over a year because I wasn't able to move there. And there's no compensation for travel unless it's to job sites for business purposes. 48 hour weeks standard plus 10 hours of commute. The only opportunity I ever had to move up would've had me moving to Kansas. That would've been a wash anyway with the cost of living out there.

It's a good opportunity for single guys who don't wanna go to college and want to work somewhere you can actually move up the ladder. Otherwise there's no accommodations for those with families or commitments outside of work and sleep.

When I worked for 84 up until last year he would call each store that beat their sales goal for the day. His daughter has run the business for a while now but him still being that involved was cool.

And coming from the state with Gettysburg...

Same. I'm friends with several cops and while they have moderate views they're still registered republicans who consistently vote red.

I find it easier to separate the art and the artist if the artist doesn't inject their views into the art in an overt way. Like, I'm into black metal, and the scene has a lot of douches. It's sometimes hard to find the artists without even just ties to problematic musicians but at least if their lyrics aren't hateful I can just not pay for the music or go to their shows.

Bradford county is one of the supposed hotspots.