-If you work in sales, like I did, you're responsible for everything under the sun. You handle everything that goes on with the design team except actual designing; everything that goes on with production (including having to decipher what the factories are saying about your goods which I've never dealt with at any other company); allocating orders and shipping (lol yes); order entry, style creation, finances, new account set up, I MEAN EVERYTHING.
-On top of handling all that, you're expected to sell like a maniac and open new accounts on top of handling current business (even though they just moved to a warehouse that doesn't support pick and pack - a pretty standard way of shipping to retailers here in 2017). I had opened up communication with two HUGE retailers and after not being able to support their shipping requirements, I was told that I needed to hustle more to find new business. Maybe don't set up your employees to fail?
-All of the above may have been tolerable if they treated their employees like humans but no. You are treated like actual dirt on the bottom on their shoes. It's a family run business and you can tell that those are the ones who get allllllllll the perks. There are literally zero benefits offered to you. They used to give everyone off for the Jewish holidays but that doesn't even happen anymore.
-Their rules make zero sense - you need 30 days to request off any amount of vacation time even though you can literally quit and never come back because its an at will employer...
-They think normal healthy hours are 8am-8pm...
-They think telling you you're bad at something will make you better at it. They actually had a point system in place ...where if you made some sort of mistake, it was logged and you got a certain amount of points...and whoever had the most points....was basically terrible at their job. I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish with that one.
-Upper management doesn't even get along, watching all the directors and VP's is actually comical because they argue like children.
-Overall unhealthy and demotivating environment.
-Bonuses are awful if you even get one and their standard raise is less than the 3% living increase. Forget about getting a raise or bonus for actually doing a good job, they barely tell you verbally that you're doing well. They also at one point blamed poor bonuses on the fact that they moved offices.... I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that you moving into an office you couldn't afford was my problem?
