Thoroughly awful - Sales Associate Five Below Employee Review

1.0
23 Apr 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Looking back, I honestly saw no Pros working for that company. With the exception of being an alternative to McDonald's as a first job, i was left with a bad taste in my mouth.

Cons

The supposed "competitive wages" are the state minimum wage. This may seem petty, but the music that played daily was the same playlist. There were sometimes multiple versions of the same song that you could hear multiple times throughout the day. I was (UN)fortunate enough to be nominated to help open 2 other stores in the state, and while they do offer $.55 a mile from my original store, it took 11 months for me to receive that money. I was an employee for a little under 2 years and by that point had worked at the store for longer than any of the current management. There was only one raise opportunity without promotion and that came with the ineffective performance reviews. With exemplary marks in every category except "E-mail Retrieval," the hardest worker remained at the minimum wage.

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Cons

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Pros

-20% discount -med, dental, vision benefits -20-ish minimum hours per week -genuinely can be a fun store to work in when run well

Cons

-store managers have little to no oversight and cross professional boundaries often - hr is ineffective, document everything yourself, report to the EEOC -growth opportunities in the store are very limited and they will lowball you no matter what you do or sacrifice -crazy turnover because the expectations are unrealistic store managers lie about pay budget to everyone -more likely to hire teens and students because they are easier to take advantage of for little pay, only needs adult for when teens and students cannot work (night shifts, school days) - nearby stores, especially if in a strip mall or shopping center, like tj maxx have higher base pay, better benefits, better security, and more hour availability

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