Job Responsibilities
This basically an assistant manager position. You are required
to open and close the store, supervise staff, and assist the
manager in the daily activities of managing the store.
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Job Requirements
They look for someone with previous retail and/or management
experience.
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Uppers
Bonuses - If you make your sales budget you get a percentage of every dollar
over you sell.
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Downers
Once they have you as a salaried employee they treat you like a
slave. You are expected to work 10+ hours per day and sometimes
more than a week without time off. You are expected to come in
on your day off to help with seasonal resets or to complete
other work you were unable to do. They will understaff whenever
they can because they know they have you who gets paid the same
no matter how many hours you work. All this company cares about
is sales. They are extremely disorganized and unwilling to
change. They view their employees as disposable and most rarely
make it past their 3 months probabtion period before quitting or
being let go. In general the whole operation is extemely
unproffesional and quite stuck in the preverbial stone-age!
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Lifestyle
If you want to work for this company you have to eat, sleep, live, and breath
sporting goods and the sales of sporting goods. If you love sports and sporting
goods to the point where you want to marry a football and if you dont mind being
taken advantage of and you are willing to commit yourself completely to the
company then this is the job for you!
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Compensation
Base Salary - $24,300 per year ($500 / week)
Bonuses are given based on how well you sell and how well the
store in general does with respect to previous years sales.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Ask alot of questions and make sure you get everything thats
promised to you in writing! If you can stomach what goes on in
this company and last for any signifgant period of time this
would be a good stepping-stone on your way to something better.
If you have never worked in retail or retail management this job
will not be a good learning experience and will in fact impede
your skills if you were to get another similar job with more
proffesional company.
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