Avoid at all costs! - Assistant Manager Tradehome Shoes Employee Review

1.0
Jan 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employee discount on a variety of shoes, OK benefits, and the commission is good considering the base pay is also rather high.

Cons

This company will use and abuse you! The pay is okay for a pathetic shoe sales job, but the overall atmosphere is horrible! The company is structured as an ESOP, which means it is employee owned. Due to this, all the store and district managers think they're above the law. If you let them, they WILL work you illegal numbers of hours and they WILL NOT pay you for all of the hours you worked. If you don't remind the store manager every week about days you need off, you won't get them off. Another tip: if you want to move up in a company, this is not the company to do so with. They will promise you advancement and tempt you with pay raises and bonuses, but then ask you to move no less than 100 miles away from your home store. The worst part is, they expect you to just pack up and leave for Nowhereville, North Dakota at a moment's notice. The time spent working for this company was the worst professional experience of my life, and I'll never even shop there again. I honestly wish this website would let me give the company zero stars.

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5.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great opportunities to grow! Better than average pay! 100% employee owned!! Fun environment and overall, just a Great Company!

Cons

Not many, if u have a good crew, it takes care of most cons

1.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

ESOP, Profit Sharing, health, dental and vision Insurance. Granted, this review could change depending on if they actually pay out the ESOP and Profit Sharing.

Cons

There’s so many. Goals that are always set with them knowing you’ll never be promoted. The locker room talks they call supervisor meetings. No follow up on performance, biased reviews submitted at year-end evaluations. They say reviews are to be honest without fear of retaliation which is the furthest thing from the truth. The home office will make sure they find every reason not to promote someone. They have their favorites who brown-nose and don’t challenge leadership. When upper management is asked more heavy hitting questions they dance around a direct answer. You never get straight forward responses. There’s no such thing as an HR department there. Good luck getting help for medical situations. They are very hush hush about your sick/vacation/and personal time that you can use. There’s no way to look it up. It is always just a guessing game. They gaslight you into thinking they are like a family and they take care of family. Don’t drink the Kool-aid. The healthy workplaces are all about work life balance and keeping the 2 separated. The president of the company can flaunt his jordans and jean at manager meetings but expects his floor managers to wear polished leather shoes and business casual attire, (no jeans, cargo pants, leggings) . The hypocrisy really shows what the leadership team things of their managers at the store level. I also loved the diversity push. If you have to focus on diversity you know there’s a HUGE problem within the organization.

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