Lies About Income and Advancement - Account Manager Office Depot Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice facility, some managers are nice, easy job.

Cons

This company leis big time about the income possibility and your chances of advancement. I just left recently and in the year I was there, there was only 1 person promoted out of 200 to management from our position, which is Account Manager. All through training they tell you if you work hard they'll promote you, that it's a young expanding business, blah blah blah.. it's a bunch of lies. All of the new management jobs go to Dell employees except for one. You have a bonus which is 10,000 a year they pay quaterly. You should see this happen, every single quarter they have some big story about why they can't pay your bonus and that people who did get a bonus were overpaid and they're taking it back. These people are thieves, plain and simple. As soon as you talk to your manager about it, they have some big story and then they never get back with you and tell you to just try harder and you'll get it next time. They always talk about you working hard to get that bonus but when you start asking for detailed information about where you numbers are and what you can look at to keep up with it, they have no response. They give you nothing. Nothing but excuses about why you don't get a bonus and why they can't give you any iformation about your accounts and what's happening to them. I came from a call center before this and let me tell you, at least at a call center, you know what's going on. You know what you are expected to do and what you'll receive if you do it. Not here. This place is just a bunch of games.

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