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The employees in the Houston office act like it's one big college party all the time.  The management at the corporate office in Kentucky don't do anything about it to make it more professional. 

If you walk inside the showroom in the Houston office, you will hear more profanity than you have ever heard in your life. All while customers walk around the showroom!!
The employees in the Houston office drink on the job (every week they stock up on wine and many cases of beer. Just check the fridge) because the whole idea around this company is drinking beer. You can walk into the Houston office and find employees drunk and incoherent. The employees will tell you, " there is no manager here in the Houston office so we can do whatever we want."
They talk about how dumb their customers are for paying for these over priced cheaply made fans.  The managers that they have at the corporate office are in their early twenties and don't know anything about running a company. Why do you think they are always hiring? 

They give you a really low salary and do not pay any commission at all!! Yet they want you to do over 1 million dollars in sales a month and not pay you any commission on it. 

If you do one sale for over 2500 hundred bucks, you get to pick a song of your choosing that they play at the corporate office to celebrate your one sale. How lame is that! 

So if you are looking for a job with no advancement, selling overly priced fans, working in a horrible environment where people are drunk all the time, coming to work and not having any standards or regulations on what you do, apply here.

No two days are alike at BAF, aside from the set of daily tasks you perform (qualifying and developing leads, converting leads into sales, CRM database management, etc.). The lessons to be learned are innumerable and invaluable, especially when the majority of the workforce is comprised of recent college grads with no "real world" experience. Management is experiencing some growing pains and organizational confusion along with the rest of the company, but the reason they've been rated one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky year after year, is in fact the people; the word "co-worker" is practically synonymous with "friend". The most enjoyable part of the job was learning the products inside and out, and translating that pride in craftsmanship to customers, ultimately beating out the competition for sales. The hardest part of the job (which I also found enjoyable) was keeping up with the DoD contracts and making sure we met all regulations and requirements.

Sales at BAF is run by a young, inexperienced team who only look at metrics and don't see the value brought in by individual employees.  The company has always carried a "nobody is safe" environment that will create stress in your everyday life.  Termination of employees happens constantly without warning or suggestions to help you improve.  This is very hard to accept if you are looking for a career, not just a job.

Once acquired by a PE Firm last year, they removed all annual reviews and commission from the sales floor. 

The atmosphere is great and your co-workers are really what make the company enjoyable to work for.  Management, however creates a toxic environment and attitude, that nothing you do will ever be good enough.  You'll appreciate the experience, however, happier once you get out.

It is very difficult to gain respect in the company as a woman.  Always seems that the men get promoted first, get paid more, and are usually the first ones asked their opinions on matters within.  However the coworkers are some of the best to work with and become like family.  I thoroughly enjoyed my time here and it was an amazing experience right out of college.  But the lack of mentors available here to learn from does make it hard to grow mentally as everything is more of a figure it out as you go mentality without anyone to turn to for advice easily.

Good: You are selling a great product.
Bad: There is absolutely  no stability In this company. The employee turn over is high and even high performers live in fear of being fired. The company has no clear career paths mapped out, there is no explanation of growth opportunities or performance expectations to be moved up.  It is a perfect out of college job to get a corporate name on your resume, but do not relocate to take this job or plan on having a career with BAF. 

Upper management lack leadership skills, focus and understanding of who and what their team may need. Empty promises, constant redirection.
Colleagues are fun, the environment is light hearted but seems to be very transient.
Hardest part is being challenged with new “busy” tasks. Your hard work will be credited to someone else. Deadlines are suggestions. Everyone seems to work under a veil of confusion. While they claim creative, or entrepreneurial thinking is welcomed it  is in fact shutdown and viewed as negative.

Things are crazy and very unsettling. We all believe the CEO is about to sell the company, so in the mean time we should "just sell" as much as possible. Its a shame, the company has so much potential if it weren't for the Good Ol Boys club and the fact that mgt is scared of their own shadow. Its sad to watch the change,

I could not hire people (professionals) fast enough, half of them were gone within a couple of months (fired or they quit). 
Too often, employees with ideas were challenged because it was not in their realm of expertise. Not much innovation going on... You could make it as long as you stayed clear of the despot, the very CEO himself! Rolled in around 10AM, based on the frown, you knew the type of day you were going to have and just hoped you were not of the top of his s--- list!  


A wonderful place to work with great people that become more like family.  Bosses are terrific and I have loved every minute of working there.  Unfortunately, headquarters have decided to close out plant and relocate it to Texas.  Very sad for all of us.  Closes in June.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Best part used to be the culture and management. Company is transitioning to promoting outside. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stressful is layoffs. Company had 3 in 3 years and it seemed to be people making high salary to replace with entry level.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment has gone downhill.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Inside sales representative 3 salaries reported	$51,667 per year
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Project manager 3 salaries reported	$55,000 per year
Account manager 3 salaries reported	$51,000 per year

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