Over worked and not cared about - Territory Sales Lead Anderson Merchandisers Employee Review

Now for the cons. It use to be a good company in the past. We worked mon-Friday and had free time to our selfs. In the past few years however you will mostly work monday-Saturday and can easily be working 10 or more hours a day. Management could be nice one day but alot of the time they would talk down to you and belittle you if you messed up on a project. I even heard many managers that would swear at the employees. Asking to use time off even if you had earned over a week of vacation time was mostly denied due to lack of coverage. Yet others could take vacation when ever they want. Asking about it would lead to more talking down to you. Some employees even asked for even a day off due to a family member in the hospital In serious condition and we're denied. Forget about getting sick as they will make you feel like crap about it. Expect one week to work 30 hours with out being able to go over then the next be scheduled 80 hours. Schedules will fluctuate constantly so expect to not be able to have a second job or have much time with friends and family. Your expected to set books, music and movies and collectables and gift cards and about 70 other projects. You have 3 to 4 stores to do this in. For big projects like resetting departments you'll be told your supposed to have a few helpers but expect mostly to have none and have store management yell at you about it. Books is a whole issue on its own as you have to set a whole aisle of books and return the old ones. Tuesdays you have to put out books and movies in all your stores. When certain new movies come out they expect you to goto every store to make sure it's out. Most of the time it will be by 8 or 10 and they wamt you to build big displays by that time and they harass you if they arent done in time. Then go back to every store to make sure books and everything else are out. Sometimes they expect you to work over night then be in work by 8am the next day on very little sleep. Be assured they don't pay enough for gas either. They will ask if you can go out of your way to help them then if you make a mistake it's all erased. With four super centers and double the work and no help your expected to get everything done as well as people who have smaller stores with more help. The company just takeso on more and more projects with never enough help. I don't see them going in a good direction.