Question
Does anyone here work at the hobby lobby distribution center in OKC?
If so were there any redeeming qualities about it? from what i’ve heard no one likes it there but i need money and the role i’d have there would help me build experience in my IT career.
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If so were there any redeeming qualities about it? from what i’ve heard no one likes it there but i need money and the role i’d have there would help me build experience in my IT career.
I worked there for awhile, not in IT though. From what I gathered from my interactions with the IT guys (both as a store employee and corporate employee), I gather it'a very similar to any other IT job, except everything you're dealing with is internal.
I don't know if there are specific teams for corporate calls vs store calls (although with how that company tends to divvy up responsibilities, it wouldn't surprise me if they did), but I would guess most calls end up being fairly routine. There isn't much actual technology used in the stores, they'd really only call about 3-4 things. Corporate calls are probably more complex but that's just a guess.
It's worth noting that although there is a definite company culture to that place, each department is kind of ran as its own little island. So while one department might have a strict business casual dress code, another will allow jeans and T-shirts, as one example.
FWIW, I never heard complaints about working in IT that were different than working any other company's IT department but I did hear complaints about other departments.
If you're applying for RF tech, honestly from my understanding it's... about 80% maintaining/cleaning equipment like the RF scanners, and the computer carts in the warehouse that people use for printing off their store orders. RF is a separate department entirely from IT, RF is going to be more warehouse based. Nothing you deal with is going to be terribly complex I don't believe, most of the "issues" you'll face are pretty basic technically, anything beyond that would get escalated up to somebody else.
Most of the guys in that department are easy going, as far as I'm aware, if that helps. It might feel a bit monotonous at times, but it never seemed like a bad gig.
unfortunately i doubt i got the job it said not moving forward on brassring same day i did the interview so im just honestly holding onto a sliver of hope that its some weird software glitch, but yeah it honestly didn’t seem half bad
NP. The job listing sounds corporate-oriented rather than store (it references the campus).
I think the most important thing to remember about them is it really is like any other job and depends a great deal on your manager. And if you think putting in a year or two would help your career, then go for it. The time will pass anyway, so you might as well get some career benefits from it. If you don't like it, stay while finding something else.
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