Fun place to work, but must like sales - Sales Associate Best Buy Employee Review

4.0
Jan 29, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It truly was a fun place to work for a while. You have fun while helping consumers purchase items. The discount isn't so bad either. If you like car audio, that department has the biggest discount. You also can win items for having the most sales.

Cons

The top managers only care about the numbers, not as you an individual. My ops manager was fabulous, but the sales managers of certain departments (ex. computers, tvs) are really hard on employees to push sales to consumers and they even resort in stretching the truth just a bit, just to get a sale.

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Pros

No Need to sell or deal with customers (Much) Constantly moving so you always have a task to do Management leaves you to your own devices Almost all warehouse employees have a set of headphone

Cons

Everyone (Cust & employees) Expect an encyclopedic knowledge on where every single item is. Management seems to think we can lift a 85" tv, pull a washer off the top shelf, stock gaming shelves, and handle store pick up at the same moment. Customers think we don't want to help them when we call someone else to help with sales There's almost too much to do and even though we may have 1-3 employees working at a time, 1 is at the door, 1 is behind store pick up, which leaves 1 employee to handle new orders, deliveries, and down stocking.

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