REI reviews

REI sells you a dream when they are first hiring. The dream is that this is a company where hard work pays off, we are not "car salesman" was the exact words that were used. However soon enough we discovered that car salesman is exactly what were expected to be. The membership is all that management cares about. They want you to go around the store hunting for new members and we have to sell it anyway possible. I was an employee at the store in Yonkers and while there is no incentive for selling memberships since that is "our job", we did get penalized for not selling them. The people who worked the hardest and were brilliant when it came to the outdoors got little to no hours while the lazy ones that managed to sell memberships and were on managements good side got all the hours. Management is lazy, immature and unaware of anything that goes on in the store and the HR department is horrible. They say that we can contact them and they will try to solve the issues but even after more than 5 employees contacted them about the same issue nothing was done. A lot of people at the Yonkers store quit right after taking the job because they quickly realize what they have gotten themselves into. I regret taking this job since it was just a waste of time. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.