Pros
- pay for sales staff is slightly above industry standard, at least for PT. - provided lunch on the weekends. It may not be great, but it's free. - most of the people you work with will be great - if you have never truly sold anything before, you can get a job here. You are truly hired based on your personality and willingness to try. (It won't keep your job, but it will get you hired) - TEC team does it's best to make the associates feel appreciated. Game nights, movie nights, etc. - if you can sell, you can advance here. If you focus on just being GEM you can make promote multiple times in a relatively short time.
Cons
- Executive Leadership sends completely innapropriate messages to the field regarding performance. Including messages that reference politics. Completely unprofessional. - Leadership also likes to change direction suddenly and with no support or reasoning. - They hired managers from traditional sales retail background and talked about the need for them to help evolve the business. The truth is they just want them to do the same things they already do. - Bonus is often unrealistic. On average only 4-6 stores out of 18 a month hit bonus. Don't plan on it. - Bonus for sales staff is unfortunate. You push your team harder than commissioned associates, if you bonus, it won't be much in comparison to any other sales environments. If you can sell, go make commission, they won't pay you fairly here for the sales pressure they will give you. - you are forced to push your people beyond their currentskill sets. If you try to take time to teach, support and grow them it is frowned upon. They are tracked by sale per hour so no time to teach. - Particular Leadership demeans staff over walkie talkie to the entire team and it is an often occurence. - walkie in your ear all day long. - if you are going to be a sales manager, be prepared to be on the door 4-8hrs of your shift. No leading, just giving a Brand Message and greeting - Sales Staff is given points for call in's, point system is out of date and allows for excessive call in's from staff. Most staff calls in often because of the hours. - Sales Staff will get anywhere from 12-50hrs a week. It's based on performance and availability. - You WILL work every weekend including holidays. Holiday weekends (including memorial day, labor day, 4th of July etc) associates are scheduled 10-12hr shifts.