Raymour & Flanigan reviews

Expected to work 6-day weeks at time (since your are not an hourly employee but on commission vs.draw, no overtime pay for you). Not allowed to have a life when you work a 6 day week. Floor is flooded with salespeople. Salespeople are encouraged to work on their day off to further flood the sales floor. "Come in whenever you please." says manager. At that rate one can hardly make draw. Only the smooth-talking and slick survive. Very sleazy car-salesman-like. Not my type of sales environment. You are paid only when the furniture gets delivered. For a sale with clients building or waiting to close on a home that could mean months. Meanwhile you busted your behind to make the sale, Raymour and Flanigan has got the money in the bank, and you still didn't get paid. Shame on this company! You're encouraged to stalk the customer. Customers feel suffocated and uncomfortable. You can be written up if your customer walks out and didn't buy anything and you didn't allow any other associate to sell them. Your fellow associates are encouraged to rat you out if you didn't give them a crack at selling your customer. The pressure is high and things are very micromanaged. Your every move is being watched. No freedom to use your creativity. Store and middle management lives in la-la land and lie to themselves and the staff that "it's all good". Meanwhile, they too are in constant fear of losing their jobs and thus pass their fear along to staff members Got to have a meeting with owners in Syracuse during the 2-week training period, who pretended to care the entire time. My advice to those who do go to Syracuse - Don't fall for it. Very dark, boring, uninspiring, uncreative, non-fashion forward, conservative, monotonous, miserly, stressful, and a straight-jacket of an environment. I am so glad I busted out of there! Didn't even give notice. I just had to go!

Training stops when you walk onto the sales floor. When you are hired, you are given income figures that, in this particular store, are unattainable for a new associate out of the gate. Long-term associates grand stand in front of store, management does nothing to stop it. There are unreasonable hours- when it is slow and the store is over-staffed, you are required to make your "delivered" sales numbers, or draw kicks in, meaning you essentially sat there in their sales office, babysitting their furniture -- for free. You are only as good as your weekly delivered -- no weight is given to sales made but delivered outside the week. The management was inconsistent. In an overstaffed store, you are not only competing with other retailers, you are competing with your own coworkers, as well as local Raymour stores. This creates an unhealthy atmosphere based on fear of not making your "period." Open Door Policy is non-existent. You are penalized when you don't sell their Extended Warranty program, and also when selling the financing that they have perpetually advertised. 12-hour mandatory Wednesdays - when full-staff is in, you are expected to "make appointments" for bogus "events." When there aren't enough customers coming in to make an appointment with, you are SOL. One-on-one's are not designed to help the associate improve, only to document for dismissal. There is no HR department to speak to effectively. Scare tactic meetings that were held about UNIONS were hysterical and worthy of being an SNL skit, provided many good belly laughs. Being terminated was the best thing that happened to me. I wake up every morning thanking my lucky stars I don't EVER have to go back there. Thanks guys!