Papyrus Reviews

3.7

49% would recommend to a friend

(362 total reviews)
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Joe Arcuri

55% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Papyrus has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 362 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Papyrus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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362 reviews
1.0
21 Feb 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The product and the people (employees). A brand with a lot of potential.

Cons

Unrealistic expectations, long work hours, the worst benefits I've ever had, (medical, sick days, vacation), endless drama, ugly work office, not up on technology as a company, blows through money, has had numerous rounds of lay-offs, store closings, and more. Performance reviews are designed to make you feel hopeless. One year they gave employees a $10 Starbucks card for Christmas and another they had bad Chinese food in a dumpy lunch room.

1.0
2 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Only thing that made it bearable were my co-workers.

Cons

Claims to be a family run company with values, but the policies and standards are more in line with a giant corporation. Executive management and executive/corporate staff are so far removed from the store level that they have no idea how hypocritical, unreasonable, and biased senior management are towards everyone at the store level (including the store managers). Lying and broken promises was the norm.

1.0
19 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful products, except for the American Greetings crap they force you to make room for. Custom printing was my favorite thing. Not many more pros other than that, because the corporate overlords make this place a living hell every single day, unless you are a "favorite". Even that status won't last forever, if you dare speak up about the wage and labor abuses and the endless stream of shipment that you are supposed to process while you are the only associate on the sales floor and you have a CP order to take while you are ringing up $1.95 AG cards.

Cons

When I started working here, it was great. The products were beautiful the stores were beautiful, shipments were reasonable, life was good. Then Dominique Schurman sold the trademark and the right to produce the products to American Greetings in exchange for a line of credit and all the AG store outlets. Thence began the downward slide, which has not been stemmed since.

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