No work-life balance - Manager In Training (MIT) Denver Mattress Employee Review

3.0
May 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The best part of this job was testing out all of the mattresses. It helped me gain an appreciation for the type of mattress I personally used and helped me to sell the right type for each customer.

Cons

Weekends are mandatory, especially over holidays. Commission only pay. And the "secret shoppers" from corporate that cared more about sounding like a robot repeating pre-scripted statements over the sales team being allowed to get to know the customer and their needs.

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Denver Mattress Response
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Thank you for leaving a review about your experience with Denver Mattress. The required hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays) are shown in the ad for the position, stated on the application, and also discussed during the multi-step interview process. Saying that, our schedule for salespeople averages around 42 hours / week, and often includes a short day during the week and opportunities for early outs depending on business. This is a commission-based position and that also listed and discussed in the same ways as the hours. Our commission and bonus structure is very generous and higher than the average retail commission rate. Lastly, we discontinued the secret shopper program in January of this year and there are no plans to reinstate it. We do have a sales presentation we expect all sales associates to learn but it is by no means a script. There are parts which must be memorized during training but we do allow the salespeople to add their personality into it once they have the parts memorized. We understand that the sales process is fluid and every customer is different but we do expect our salespeople work within our framework and follow our process. We are very particular about how our salespeople sell to our customers and we have high standards as to how our customers are treated which is, in part, why we are continually raked as one of the top mattress stores for service. I truly wish you the best in the future. If you would like to discuss this further, please call me at (303) 566-8173. Thank you!

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