retail sales associate

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forklift operator

loss prevention director

warehouse operations

Bargain Hunt

The jobs at Bargain Hunt consist primarily of a salaried full-time manager and all other store associates including assistant managers, team leaders, etc. working on a part-time basis. 

The job of a store associate at Bargain Hunt is pretty simple and self explanatory for a typical day of work. Be nice to customers by providing friendly customer service to patrons shopping the store. Stock and replenish merchandise on the store shelves by moving freight from the back stockroom onto the sales floor. Label and organize the store merchandise for sale by at best neatly organizing the store shelves.  In these aspects as long as one is working hard and doing what he or she is told then the position is a pretty laid back and not mentally taxing in the least.

The hardest part of the job is keeping up with some of the shipments of freight from the delivery trucks and moving it onto the sales floor. This involves re-labeling most of the merchandise that rolls off the delivery trucks with new Evergreen price labels as the original UPC scans are no longer valid with the reselling of items. Bargain Hunt will get two and sometimes three trucks a week full of freight. This is way too many shipments of freight for a store of Bargain Hunt's nature. What is more is that the distribution center will send an abundance of merchandise to stores that the stores already has an abundant supply of out on the sales floor. Bargain Hunt wants and is trying to be something like Wal-Mart, Target, or any of the other major retail outlets but should learn to stay in its lane. Bargain Hunt is a place where an abundance of overstock, aftermarket, and products of a bad idea design flaw go to die. The merchandise either gets another shot in this capitalist society of being sold to a customer for $$ or winds up in an already over swelling landfill.

The most enjoyable part of working at Bargain Hunt is getting to work with some of my co-workers and getting to know them a bit better. I don't get too attached to my co-workers as there can be a high employee turnover rate that is in correlative to the low pay rate. Another enjoyable part is that the tasks of the position is pretty self explanatory with the work being laid back while not being mentally taxing . The job position however can lead to boredom so it is not for everyone.

The least enjoyable part of working with Bargain Hunt is corporate workplace culture and divorced reality that the headquarters has with store associates. Part-time employees after one year of services are offered the option to set aside an amount into a 401K retirement plan. This both funny and sad at the same juncture. How is one supposed to set aside money to save from an unlivable $8 an hour wage? A major aspect by far of working with the Bargain Hunt store that is the most least enjoyable is the constant management limbo store associates encounter. Just by the time one becomes comfortable one manager and the way he or she does things then off they go and in comes another with a direct opposite management style. I can only conjecture that this high management turnover rate too is related to equally low pay scale and unreasonable demands placed upon management from DMs sent out from Bargain Hunt headquarters.

This place is beyond repair! The entire management team is truly like working for a bunch of kids with a Lego set that never was never given proper instructions to complete the assignment and I mean from the owners all the way down. I have worked in several retail environments but this place will truly drive you to madness because just trying to perform the simplest of tasks takes you rigging things to make it happen. For example, when told to stock shelves (which are held up with duct tape and zip ties... not an exaggeration) you have to rearrange an entire aisle to fit one single product on the shelves and the management team expects you to take what looks like a yard sale spat onto shelves and turn it into what you would want to see in a high-end retail store (not happening). No one ever knows what is going on and when asking management for clarification you get nothing but attitude and sarcasm. Every store this place owns is used old buildings and the one in Paducah just truly needs to be torn down because it is jerry-rigged beyond repair and is a safety hazard to employees and customers. Management also constantly wants to throw their duties onto underpaid employees so they don't have to deal with situations so they can just sit in the office and seriously pretend they are doing clerical or administrative work (which trust me they are not... can you say Facebook on company time) which in turn brings morale down for the entire staff. None of the equipment in the store is safe for use and I observed one manager hot wiring a lift and using clear office tape to bundle the wires together in order to use the equipment to unload merchandise in the backroom. Parents DO NOT LET YOUR TEENAGERS WORK FOR THIS COMPANY because they hire meth heads and drugged up employees which in itself is a HUGE safety risk to everyone in the building. There is nothing professional about this company in any way shape or fashion and offers nothing but headaches and heartache to all its employees. DO NOT LET THIS COMPANY BE YOUR FIRST CHOICE FOR EMPLOYMENT and better yet DON'T LET IT BE YOUR CHOICE FOR EMPLOYMENT AT ALL!

A typical day at the store was chaos. As a team lead you are over a section of the store like apparel, hardlines or backroom most of the time you are not in your section you are cashiering, cleaning, running freight. They give you an impossible time frame to get items out onto the floor, they say a person can ticket a whole pallet of items in 1 hour but when you have a crew consisting of yourself and maybe 2 others you cant get everything out in 24 hours when you have 30+ pallets.
I have learned since I have been there and left the more you lie and cheat the more the higher-ups love you. There is no such thing as integrity there. They do not fire the drug users even when they are doing it on the job, they do not fire the alcoholics even when they are drinking on the job. If you have a problem and take it to HR they will not contact you and try to hide it. They will tell the DM and then tell the person you are having an issue with, there is no confidentiality in the corporation. They play favorites. They break their own rules, stashing items, purchasing items on the clock, blatant theft.
The culture is horrible everyone is unhappy, at any given moment you can have a store manager take you into the office and yell at you or they can just yell at you on the floor in front of customers. The hours are horrible favorites are played so some team leads open every day and never work a weekend while the hated ones are left to close and work weekends. The pay is horrible if you are loved then you get in at a high pay rate if not then you are one of the lowest. Benefits are only for full-time employees and that is the team leads and store manager. This store is like high school people lying about each other and out to get them you have to watch your back all the time.
Everything is hard about this job think of the worst in retail and times it by 100% and that is some of it.
There was nothing enjoyable about this job I have worked retail many years and thought other places where bad but this took the cake.

Company is unique in several ways. With constantly changing merchandise, and a pricing system different from typical retailers, it's truly unlike any other establishment. With a system that is unmatched, also comes learning the correct way intended, may not always be the best or easiest way to achieve the desired results. The biggest adjustments for anyone with retail experience, is taking the experiences you know and have learned, and basically starting as if you have no prior knowledge of how the standard operations in managing a successful retail establishment is normally done, and start fresh. After many years in Retail management, I in a few days found several programs that were simply non-existent. That didn't mean I couldn't implement them, It just made this harder to do when every associate had no clue what I was wanting, and in their defense, had never been properly trained or explained why they were needing to and going to be done until I am personally told not to. Overall, it's a great company with growth opportunities and allows for individual creativity for merchandising, and to know that regardless of position and title, pay range or seniority, every employee is an important member of the store and companies success. Every company has the ability to improve, but that is only dependent on the associates willingness to learn and adapt to change.

Bargain Hunt has no idea what it is doing as a company. 

They have unrealistic store appearance expectations for the merchandise they receive in stores and with the allotted payroll. They also set the same standards for all stores regardless of size, fixture availability, or store setup. 

My district manager micromanaged to the point where I thought I should just give them the keys. They change policies so frequently that it is impossible to keep up. HR is a gossip mill. 

Turnover is very high. A lot of store managers don't even last a year. I had more district managers than I had years worked at this company. A lot of retailers have high turnover with associates. Bargain Hunt can’t even manage to keep top tier staff. 

A company cannot succeed if they do not care about their people; Bargain Hunt does not care about its people. Unless you have absolutely no other option, I urge you to find employment elsewhere.
 
I need to emphasize that none of the following is an exaggeration:

The bottom line is that I lost sleep at night because I worked for this company. My days "off" were consumed with emails, phone calls, conference calls, group text messages, and often eventually going into work. I would regularly drive to work and consider how much better my day would be if I had a car accident on the way. At least weekly, I would feel like my job was in jeopardy and I was going to lose my livelihood at any moment. These feeling are something I would not wish on my worst enemy. I have never been so miserable in any aspect of my life as I was when I worked at Bargain Hunt.

Your day can consist of working on tickets that could range from nightmare printers to user activations, the day-to-day work is not very hard however, it sometimes includes stuff not standard to that of a help desk position. The management team's communication is extremely poor and wishy-washy. They will say one thing then turn around and include HR to say the opposite throwing you under the bus. Upper management is particularly bad about this at the director and c suite level. They will do things like have you track your miles so you can be paid then turn around and decline the payment when you submit it. This position was supposed to be a hybrid WFH position but was changed within two months of me starting and when I voiced concerns I was told that the company can make these changes and there's nothing we can do. Not only that when raising concerns about not having any additional on-call payment aside from regular hourly wage when we answer a call, and the company did not respond with any action or policy change after several of us raised concerns. There is no issue that I have seen the company take action on. The whole reason that I was removed from the company was because I raised concerns about not being compensated additionally for wear and tear on my vehicle while driving between the buildings. There are many other problems with the company that I could list I would certainly consider other options. 

I've worked for them for a little less than a year now. The company was great before the pandemic hit. Pay is above minimum wage, friendly coworkers, good discounts, etc. It's all gone downhill over the past 8 months, though. 

They refuse to protect their employees by requiring masks or placing proper shields in front of the registers. Over half of customers waltz right in without masks, and management just lets them. I've brought it up, and apparently, the company is so afraid of how people react to being told to put on masks that the higher ups have told management not to say anything. 

Apparently, that also extends to employees improperly wearing their masks. I have at least three coworkers (including a team lead) who regularly go around with their masks under their noses because "it's hard to breathe."

It has gotten to the point where I do not feel safe working here. I requested to be taken off register specifically to avoid having to interact with maskless customers as often, though they still throw me on there anyways half the time ("we don't have anyone else"). Since I've started seriously complaining about their incompetence with COVID measurements, management has also turned hostile. It's like walking on eggshells at this point. 

I'm planning on going to HR and switching jobs, since my health is not worth it. I've been at my store longer than even the manager himself, and - come to think of it - almost every single employee that I started with left because of the company's policies and workflow. It's time for me to leave.

I had the opportunity to work for this company that offered a flexible job for some extra money. The job itself was ok,  I appreciated the chance to earn a bit on the side. However, my overall experience was dampened by the disappointingly low pay.
While the tasks were engaging and I put in significant effort, the compensation didn't match the value of the work. I attempted to address this concern with management, expressing my belief that the pay was inadequate for the amount of responsibility and effort required. Unfortunately, I was met with the response that there was nothing they could do due to the company's small size.
In today's economy, individuals must be adequately compensated for their time and efforts. Despite enjoying the job, it became increasingly difficult to justify the extra workload for what felt like mere pennies. Communication with management about this issue yielded no resolution, leaving me with no choice but to part ways with the position.
In conclusion, while the job was a great opportunity for extra money, the low pay ultimately overshadowed the positives. It's disheartening to find oneself in a situation where hard work is undervalued, especially when efforts to address the issue are met with limited understanding. If the company were to reconsider its compensation structure, I believe it could attract and retain more dedicated individuals willing to contribute their best.

As the title states, unless you’re desperate for a job that pays extremely low wage, hardly few to no hours, no breaks, or you’re in high school just starting out in the job market: STAY AWAY!!! 

This is NOT a job that will pay you well. Dealing with low income families, drug addicts, and thefts isn’t worth being paid $9 an hour. Management will do everything in their power to refuse you a break. By law you’re allowed a break but oftentimes I didn’t get to take mine. Working 6 hours or more you’re allowed a 30 minute in-paid break but you’ll never receive it. They’ll work you 6 hours on the dot no more no less. Their “policies” on calling out is borderline illegal. You’re basically allowed one call out you’re entire tenure if you called out again you’re fired. Sick? Family emergency? Unexpected emergency? Oh well if you call out you’re risking your job. I can understand people abusing the call out option to just not want to show up to work but when you have an honest to God emergency, an act of God happens, or you’re genuinely sick they really don’t care. Time off? Good luck getting anything approved. 

Getting full time is impossible. I was told only store managers are allowed full time. You WILL NOT have any opportunities for advancement. Cashiers, assemblers, or sales floor are all part time and do not receive many hours. I was given 15 hours at most. That is NOT enough hours to make a living wage. Extremely short shifts.

As per any low pay job, you are expected to stand for a consistent 8 hours a day. This forces both injuries in your feet (such as flat footed pain, and just general swelling, and continuous pain while at work.) I personally worked cashier most of the time, and was not allowed to sit, only to lean on the counter which did not help the foot pain. Along with that you are expected to continuously be busy. The extent goes as far as taking a picture of you standing and not doing anything on a camera, to show you later. The electronics, and expensive items must be watched at all times, but you can't stand behind the counter to be readily available for customer assistance. You must at all times be fixing up aisles (which are either outrageous neat/straight to where no work can really be done, or extremely messy.) On the days where there are 6+ workers, and everyone is straightening everything, it just turns into standing in an aisle until you leave. The payrate starting out is 8.50, but the hours are minimal. You aren't guaranteed any set of hours. If the store doesn't make its sales, you don't get your hours. New hires are first to go when hour cuts go as well, making it hard to justify staying your ninety days. Managers are last to go, they would rather have 3-4 managers on duty rather than 1 manager and 3 workers.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Retail sales associate 8 salaries reported	$10.81 per hour
Retail team leader 10 salaries reported	$14.05 per hour
Forklift operator 13 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
Loss prevention director 8 salaries reported	$15.56 per hour
Warehouse operations 27 salaries reported	$23.48 per hour

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