I dare you to top the sports store I work at. Dare You.
I have some real stories, but I don't want to get anyone in trouble as it seems like a company that might have Head Office staff on this site.
Lets just say
- Pay extremly low wages (I've worked there for 2 years part time and 1 year full time before starting school and I barely make more then minumum wage) yet they expect their staff to be dedicated and loyal while paying no comission and rarely pay bonus (set goals extremly high, outside of xmas (didn't even get there in xmas '08) it usually takes an anomoly to hit budget)
- Tend to run out of staff come popular days off because they will not allow more man hours (I once worked 11 days straight and 16 out of 17 days but didn't even make a penny of overtime or bonus)
- (At my location) They refuse to buy the following: Mop, Vacuum, hole punch, scotch tape or stapler and make their employees go store to store asking to burrow the needed items (never have had anyone come ask for any supplies from other stores)
- Have no lighting in the backroom (too expensive?),
- Took months of convincing to replace phone with a $25 cordless option (hard to help customers over the phone when attached to till)
- They sold stickers/tattoo's that cost them .02 cents each for 1.00 to families that were buying hundred dollar items at a recent big event.
And most importantly, they treat sales staff like absolute garbage. If you don't work in the head office, you can forget any sort of favors being done for you by the company. Even if you have worked there for years. Something as simple as telling there staff if they will ever bring in a certian product is apparently to hard to do let alone donations for staff supported charities or stuff like that. (Basically if they can't plaster there logo everywhere where their target demographic will see it, they won't donate a cent. This happend to someone who's worked for them for the better half of a decade)
Oh and to put my rage in perspective, I have worked at Calaway Park, Tim Hortons, Footlocker and Shell (Head office not gas station, that was an awesome job, made a lot of cash)
Every single one of those places was 10x better then were I work now in terms of treatment of staff and frugality. Yes the store I work at now treats me worse then when I was a 14 year old CALAWAY PARK GROUNDSKEEPER. The first 3 all payed roughly the same if you adjust for the times....
Could this get me fired? Even after working for them for 3 years when the average retail turnover is like a couple months I wouldn't be suprised. So if you're reading this, I'm sure you know that I'm talking about you.
Luckily I only stay there for the people I work with and the exposure to sports.
P.S. Yes I know its retail and what should I expect but its a medium sized company with high profit margins that relies so much on its sale staff and considering at the location I work at, almost everyone has been there for more then a year and a half you'd think they could treat there staff better.
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