The best advice I can offer you, is have couping skills to bring to work. The customers that shop at Michael's are incredible in a very negative way. Working for an arts and crafts store is so much more different then a grocery store or a pharmacy. The customers are rude, stupid, selfish, entitled, and it's honestly even worse if your store is located in a poorer area. For example I worked for the Bayshore Michael's for a total for 5 years and I had to seek outside therapy. The cooperate life, the higher ups will get all of the blood from all of the stones. They will screw you over again and again. They won't help with finding a closer store to transfer you to. They beat around the bush. Like Neil the District Manager and Vinessa and framing market manager, they never seem to know how to help anyone or know answers to any questions. Nor do they seem like to want to help. Whenever these two enter any of the stores in the tri-state area, it's def con 5. During the holidays they took our Assisstant Manager, Bill leaving the Store Manager completely fucked and they let him drown in stress instead of doing the logical thing and simply hiring a manager for the Oceanside store. The managers are also not good with keeping up morale, the store manager Craig definitely must take a sensitivity class. I wouldn't work at Michael's as a career. I've seen them drop managers like new born giraffes who have worked for the company for years. Oh, and if you have my position, a framer, that's a whole other can of worms. Do. Not. Work. For. Michael's. Frame. Shop. At least not with this random "marketing manager" Vinessa waddling around demanding you soon everything into gold.