Has anyone been told by their Michaels Store management that all Michaels employees, including those employees who are instructors only, must complete the three level “Michaels University” classes? The first level involves Product Location Training which requires the employee to Label the areas of their store using reference numbers, naming planograms, finding specific products and explaining its use, completing a workbook, handing it in to your store manager, respond to questions from your store manager and other employees over your headset, and tracking your correct answers to be able to move onto the next levels (which are “Substitute a Product” – using project sheets, find substitute products for each project and “Adapt a Project” – Using project sheets, adapt each project based on the Customer’s needs). Since I am only in the store for my knit and crochet classes and to do demos to promote my classes, I was told that I should do this training during my demo times. These training levels have nothing to do with knitting and crocheting but are geared to make sure employees are knowledgeable about the Michaels store inventory of all products, how to substitute a product for a project, and how to adapt a project. I was told that if I don’t complete this training, I will no longer be able to work at Michaels.

Has anyone else experienced this?