Living Spaces reviews

Poor pay. They try to ameliorate this by offering cheap, usually gross and unhealthy free lunches on weekends. Protect bad managers. I've seen great managers leave and horrible managers protected by HR on multiple occasions. You don't get the sense that HR has your best interest in mind most of the time. No corporate or upper management accountability. Poor annual merit increases. I regularly received great reviews, yet wouldn't receive meaningful pay increases and I wasn't allowed to reward my highest performers in a meaningful way. Boring. They had us standing at the door hours at a time greeting each individual customer. The managers were required to do this. Huge waste of time and makes it difficult to monitor your business. I could go on, but this company probably isn't much worse than most retail environments. It may even be better. Most of your happiness in a retail environment will depend upon the quality of your direct manager. LS has some good managers, but too many stores have unfit general or assistant managers that make life difficult for regular employees and other managers. You can only tolerate so much.

*Managers only care about getting bonuses *Only get feedback when you’re doing bad *Watching videos is your training *Employees that have been there longer are allowed to break policies that new employees aren’t (I.e wearing different color shoes Monday thru Friday when black is required). *Sales reps selling out of their areas *Being treated like commission workers even though it’s hourly. Management dangles a carrot on a stick they refer to as Gem’ing but they really only care about themselves. *Employees going to management for every little thing instead of addressing the employee first *The mandatory health plan is expensive *Mandatory weekends *No positive feedback, only negative *Negative culture amongst employees *Top sales performers are named every few hours, creating jealousy, hate, and competition when it’s supposed to be a team environment *Suspension is possible without a reason or incident given to the employee. HR plays favorites and discriminates against certain employees based on age, sex, and even looks *All managers and general managers are females, creating a very feminist attitude amongst employees