Earthbound Trading reviews

I have never experienced a company more incompetent than this one. 1. They would not listen to us when we had homeless people breaking into the store at night. They refused to give us a security system despite all the evidence we had that people were breaking in. Only after a cop literally saw a homeless person bump our door they believed us. 2. We didn't have any upper management for almost 6 months, yet expected our store to function and preform without an assistant or store manager. Our district manager would show up to do the schedule, tell us we weren't working hard enough to make sales, then leave. 3. They will threaten your jobs if you don't make even weekly goals. During when we didn't have any management we made our month goal! Really great, well only a week into the next month we weren't on track, my district manager said that to avoid hiring new team members we need to make our weekly goals. 4. Sales goals are completely unattainable. From the year prior they bumped up our total goals 25%. You cannot expect a 25% increase in sales in a year span. It is grossly unatainable, and nobody could actually make sales. Almost every store in our district (which there was about 8 or 9) were not making sales. Yet we get blamed that we are just not working hard enough. That is really only touching the surface of how horrible this company is. My district manager was exteremly off her rocker, she once took me into the basement and screamed at me for a solid 15 minutes about how if I wanted to leave I should just leave and how I'm terrible at my job. I honestly thought she was going to jump over the table and starting attacking me. Told this to HR but they didn't care. Nobody cares about anything that happens in those stores, and they sure as hell don't care about their employees. Don't work here. Plus most of the clothes they cycle from year to year because they can't seem to sell all of them. Because they're ugly and cheaply made.

*Turnover rate is incredibly high, both in store and in upper management. I had 3 different store managers in the span of a year and a half, and 3 different district managers and 3 different regional managers within my 3+ years of working there. Due to high turnover rate of upper management, policies and communication frequently gets muddled and expectations are hard to enforce. *The pay is incredibly low in comparison to the retail market. Retail workers are already underpaid, and this company gives no slack with that. Sales associates start at minimum wage, and store management team members make $3k-7k below local standard. (There's a reason they're always hiring) *The amount of work that is expected for the level of pay is ridiculous. Small store = small teams, so everyone does a little bit of everything, and the management team members are in charge of running the ship with little incentive, guidance, or training. *They are a fairly young company, going on 25 years this year, and some of the people in home office quite frankly have no idea what they're doing. The mistakes that are made that could easily be avoided are frequent and embarrassing. *The majority of the products are not fair trade. All of the clothing, the majority of the jewelry, and any kitchy product you find there was made in a factory in China or Vietnam. They claim that the factories are sustainable and pay their workers a living wage, but since earthbound hardly pays their store employees a living wage, I doubt it. Sorry to burst your bubble.