# How does Spirit Halloween find managers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-spirit-halloween-find-managers/944707>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 20, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-spirit-halloween-find-managers/944707 "2021-06-20T21:41:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-spirit-halloween-find-managers/944707/1 "2021-06-20T21:41:10Z")

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I’m sure they have no problem hiring store employees for a three month temporary job - but I can’t figure out how they find store and district managers when those are also temporary jobs (district managers start in July, store managers in August) and they require retail management experience [at least](https://www.spencersandspiritjobs.com/en-US/job/district-sales-manager/J3R2R26YQPS39PXL3FS) for the district managers. Lots of companies hire seasonal employees , but many are at locations that are open and have management year-round (retail stores, delivery services, tax preparation offices). There are other jobs that don’t exist year-round, but are in the same place from one year to the next and attract people who work a job with an “opposite” schedule - for example, a teacher who spends the summer working as a camp director or as the social director at a resort.

But I can’t quite figure out how Spirit is finding managers when 1) their stores are in different locations from year to year and 2) there isn’t any segment of retail I can think of that closes from July or August through the first week of November allowing people to work at Spirit during that segment’s off-season. The only thing I can think of is that they are hiring retired or unemployed retail managers - is that what’s happening or am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-spirit-halloween-find-managers/944707/2 "2021-06-20T21:46:02Z")

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Spirit Halloween is owned by Spencer Gifts. I suspect there’s a deep enough pool of assistant managers at Spencer that management staff can be shifted around for a few weeks.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-spirit-halloween-find-managers/944707/3 "2021-06-20T22:11:33Z")

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I’ll bet that they keep a database of retail managers, especially ones who have worked with them previously, and contact them annually to see if they’re available.