Untruthful about sales commissions, advise to prospective sales reps, "Run" - Sales Associate Havertys Employee Review

1.0
Nov 9, 2018
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Pros

The people there are all struggling together, so we've learned to have empathy for each other. Most employees help other pay for gas and their rent when any of the sales reps get a little extra money

Cons

You will work 7 days per week on commissions to make less than a person at a convenience store. Commission are only paid once per month and often time the merchandise is out for 4 to 6 weeks so you don't get paid for 2 or 3 months on sales. When starting they said a sales person can expect 6 ups (customer a day) all of us who are working 6 and 7 days per week average 2 customer per day. You will go broke working here. They withhold your first check for 6 weeks. And in some cases if you sell something at the end of the month, you'll get paid your commissions 3 months later on that sale. Management makes sales staff pay for customers bottles of water when they ask for water. If they give a customer any discount it is deducted out of your commissions. I came to this company with 20 years of sales experience and I now make in one month what I was easily making in 2 weeks at other places. When you leave this company, they will not pay your last check till 6 weeks after or even longer. We have had upset former employees who's complained about this regular I now know of 2 long term sales people who've downsized their homes and 3 employees that have lost their car because they couldn't afford the payments.

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Cons

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