Micro Center reviews

Both corporate and retail management see employees only as numbers on a spreadsheet. Commission is an antiquated pay model which should be replaced by hourly for all positions regardless. The fact that it took a VP visiting our store to realize that commission rates needed to be doubled is beyond stupidity on management's part. We were also told that we made a billion dollars in revenue over the course of a period of time at a company meeting... yet we still have the same horrible internal network, POS systems, and less than spectacular pay. Also, despite being "part-time," I still had to work 10 hour shifts. To management, part-time doesn't mean shorter shifts; it means full-time shifts on fewer days. As a full time student this is extremely frustrating when I need time out of every day of the week to study. Management also over-scheduled the hell out of our department, while also wondering why everyone's commission was so low. (Spoiler alert: too many cooks spoil the broth.) That also brings me to my next point; good luck promoting to another department, because despite being told by management I would be moved to a higher-paying department, the only person who I saw get remotely close to that opportunity turned out to be taking amphetamines before every shift so he could actually hit the sales numbers. Often times when employees voiced concerns over issues similar to these, they were just told "it's just not going to happen" or similar phrases you'd hear from horror stories of bad parenting. Do better.

Let me list SOME: Poor pay ($4 per hr + 2% of sales + 10% for protection plans) - Do the math, you need to sell thousands if you want good pay. I will tell you this, you will never that much. They want you to watch for shoplifters because the company is CHEAP (even a craft store that is next door, that really does not carry expensive items, hires an off duty state cop), you get paid ONLY $4 /hr for 2hrs in the morning shift (don't work morning shifts cause you will only make $8 !!!!), they require constant facing of products on shelves and stocking of shelves, no internal promotions to other deptmts unless you can sell a lot and will require inter-dept reassessment, constant manager & customer kissing, store meetings almost always concern selling more, plans & store numbers and store ranking against other locations, ALL management AND home office have NO close interpersonal relations with the employees - always distant. That's some of the major cons.