(Let go with no notice) Dissapointed. - Sales Associate Abt Employee Review

2.0
17 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Great opportunity to make decent cash 2. Does not feel micromanaged at all 3. For the most part you work with good co-workers

Cons

1. Stupid meeting you have to attend 4 times a month 2. Demoralizing "file letters" that take away your so called "bonus." These file letters can be given to you for anything to small to minor. Hell they can even be given to you when you had nothing to do with anything. Quite an idiotic system to get your employees in check in my opinion. 3. If you work In certain departments it can be difficult to meet sales goals. This is a grey area, since its looked down upon to venture off into different areas to sell. Kind of a set up to failure if your in the wrong department and you have quotas to meet. 4. You get bombarded with emails like crazy, with stuff that doesn't even attain to your department. 5. Closing duties in some departments that get walked is terrible. Managers are nowhere near to be found or take there sweet time talking nonsense when they should shut up and do there job. 6. No communication with some managers on performance for new comers. 7. Training is quite terrible 8. Some older employees who have been with the company for awhile look down upon newer employees as if there better then you and can look at you different. (Which is funny considering that these ladies and gentleman are usually 50-60 plus and is still working retail.. Something must have gone wrong in there lives.) 9. Do not get any PTO for first year and only if you average 39 hours per week.

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Abt Response
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Dennell - We're sorry that you feel this way regarding our company. We wanted to address some of your concerns. We would never fire an employee "out of the blue" and for no valid reason. We’re actually always looking for good sales help. The most important outcome of any sales meeting, letter or email is communication. Abt is very aware the workplace is changing and evolving. We respect individual differences and provide all our employees the opportunities to grow regardless of how long they have been employed at Abt. We’re doing plenty of things right as we’ve been growing for over 80 years. Sorry it didn't work out for you here.

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