Is tractor supply a good place to work?

Any current or past employees, please share your experience. Our local store seems to have a BIG turnover. Is tsc a good place for a retiree to work?

I'd say being retired it would be good cause if you don't like it you can move on you don't need the job or headaches.
GB in MN

Buddy worked there several years. Was happy but decided retirement really meant not working so moved on. Seemed OK with the place. Co-workers will be the rub if there is one.

I'm guessing that, as a retiree, you will know more about most everything than most of the youngsters working there. That should make you the go-to guy for the customers.

As with any company, the good and the bad are the people. Some customers are enjoyable and others are a pain, some workers are enjoyable and some are a pain. The pay is not great and the benefits are limited, but if you are looking for a part time job I think it would work.

Rich

My son went to work there right before we quit milking cows. He wanted to stay with them and work his way up. He'd been there about three months. The front automatic doors were painfully slow when they opened. He helped an old guy take his cart to the car without being asked. The cart bumped the slow doors and the glass shattered. He went right to the manager and told him what happened and said he'd paid for it. The manager told him not to worry about it for even a minute,they had insurance for that kind of thing. A week later,the district manager came in and fired him for it.

MNGB has it right.

There is a guy at the local TSC that seems to be in charge. I commented about something to him recently, and he replied that they couldn't pay him enough to be manager. They seem to be always rushing around and short handed.

Here at the northern tip of the lower peninsula - our Tractor Supply store has had the same main people for the 10 years I have been coming here. Nice folks. Manager is a woman and I am always ribbing her because she always smiles. I don't know how she does it dealing with people on a daily basis. Only Tractor Supply I use in "da UP" is in Sault Ste. Marie. I don't know how that place works. Only been there a few times.

A friend went to work there after he retired. Like the job but couldn't stand on his feet all day and carry feed out.

According to a kid I know from town. NO. He didn't show up for work one day. Found out they changed his work day. But know one called him to tell him of the change. Got fired anyway.

I don't think so.

Our TSC here has extremely high turnover, every time I'm in there there is a new face. Seems like cashiers average about a 30- 60 day run .... Longest I ever seen a manager stick around was just shy a year.

Bumped into several different sales clerks I recognized at other garden centers/ equipment stores and all they did was bad mouth management and the hoops corporate made them go through.

The local Agway had had the same folks working there for the last 15 years though!!

I worked for Tractor Supply for about 3 months about 9 years ago. I won't say which store, but it was in NC.
I started out at $8 per hour. which would be a maximum of about $16,000 a year. No overtime never ever.

Since I had been a little manager on my last job, in a month they made me something called a 'Team Leader'. And raised my pay to $8.50/hour. About 17,000 a year, if I had stayed a year.

Being a team leader, I was expected to close the store every night, ride heard on the other workers-most had been there longer than me and really knew more about how the store operated than I did. And some of those boys were less than 18 years old. And I had to count the cash drawers and make sure the place was locked up each night. (All this extra responsibility for an extra $20 a week in my paycheck.)

When I quit I had worked 7 consecutive Sundays. Even the ones I was supposedly 'off' I had to go back in to work for a store meeting.

And the day before I quit the spring sale stuff had come in on the truck(s). I went in at 12:00 noon we put up stock and left at 2:00 the following morning, not done yet, and was scheduled to be back at work at 12:00 noon that day. It was also the 7th consecutive day that I had worked an 8 hour shift. And when they finally mailed me my paycheck, there was no overtime in it. (Although that may have been just on account of how they figured their work weeks.)

I don't miss it a bit.

Our daughter has worked part time weekends and summers for the past 3 years while going to college. Shows up on time, works her schedule and keeps getting a paycheck she is proud of.
Sure beats McDonald's or Walmart (or not working) - PLUS the wife and I get a dicount!!!

Got a Home Depot near by ? Neighbor was telling me about how was thinking of going there. He had talked to some other retirees who worked there and it sounded pretty good. They have some special positions for them. This involved no heavy lifting or shelf stocking from what he heard.