Jewelry company from Germany in the US at Old Navy, highly unorganized. Management responsibilities at a cashier wage.
Pros
1% commission on sales, but sales figures are inaccurate most of the time. You can make a whole $20 a week on commission per store, if you work extra hard then you might make another $10 on commission on a good week. May be a growing company with opportunities, that is what we are told. But in the mean time you will have to work your behind off, and still hope that company will live up to expectations. So far the only positive is that we can, on down time, make our own schedule. Another positive might be that all this responsibility might look good on a resume, if you can get management to say something nice about you when using them as a reference.
Cons
Management is highly unorganized, communication between Germany and Us management is constantly misunderstood. We are bombarded with e-mails within them tons of misunderstandings and corrections, management is even confused and constantly gives wrong answers. But at the end it is the mobile merchandisers "fault", so company is never happy with merchandisers. Merchandisers get blamed for everything, while management covers their behind. There is not a work/life balance with this job because when we get interviewed and hired we are told there lots of flexibility with work schedule, we can work any amount of hours as we please and that it is a low stress job that is very easy. But in reality there is constantly last minute changes when we are to work, there is lots of responsibilities, management type responsibilities at a cashier wage. We are required to have a reliable car, our own cell phones, internet and printer/scanner to use at our own house, only reimbursement is ink. If you don't have any of this, then you will not get hired because they don't have any offices, they want us to use our home as an office. Management is sneaky and not trustworthy, bad mouths and lies are used as a technique to cover themselves while burning others. No benefits, they want us to all be on "part-time" but be available full time.
