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Farmers Home Furniture

Working at Farmers as a part time sales associate is a fairly easy job.  However, it gets boring when things get slow. Sometimes it's slow for a week or two at a time. If you are a big guy like me they will make you push out the lawn mowers everyday. Which is fine but after awhile they won't help you carry them out. The only one that is willing to help is a 70 year old lady. When people come to pick up their orders they will expect you to go to the back and help the customer load it onto their truck/trailer even though its your "up," so then you might miss a sale. Which is really hard to meet the monthly minimum quota when you are on part-time. Also, I had to go on deliveries many times especially the last 3 weeks of working there was almost all deliveries. This wouldn't be that bad if I was paid the same as the delivery guys at $10/hr., but instead I was paid at the same $7.25/hr. It wasn't until I gave the manager my two week notice and later my resignation letter that he gave me the offer to work exclusively in the back at $10/hr. However, the new credit manager at Toccoa (Store: 125) is a great guy and helps with the mowers and deliveries if needed as well. He started about a month before my resignation. Don't get me wrong though, for the work that you do as an actual part time sales associate, I believe, is worth the minimum wage plus the commission earned on sales (Commission: Furniture @ 5%  
 Yard Tools, Electronics & Appliances @ 3%). Which is pretty good for sitting around most of the day.

for starters  I was told I'd be hired at full time. I was a few weeks into the job before  I learned I was at part time. The manager at the time said he submitted a request to make me full time but when he stepped down his replacement informed me that no such request was made, and that it was mandatory that not only i work part time but I couldn't work more than a certain number of hours.

When the covid 19 pandemic began i was told we had safety equipment (masks, gloves, etc.) Already on the way.  When the time came to make deliveries on the day they were said to arrive i asked where they were and the manager told me he couldn't find any at the store and tried to make it seem like I misunderstood him. We were then told to use the masks we found in the warehouse which were old painting masks. One was a respirator that was covered in pollen and God knows what else. The other was an old paper mask. There were only 2 masks but 3 delivery drivers.

I was also sent on a bedroom suit delivery alone to a 2 story apartment complex.  When I asked the new manager what I should do since I was the only one who showed up that day she responded with I'll see if i can get the customer to help. (We aren't supposed to ask the customer since if they get hurt we could be held responsible)
 All in all this job was miserable and made it very clear that employees are just numbers. These examples were just things that happened to me. I've also witnessed managers bullying employees,  lying to customers,  and refusal to do jobs by passing them off to other employees who weren't qualified. 

A Big No, No, No. Farmers Home Furniture keeps you at minimum wage by design. Your commissions are based on delivery, not when you actually sell. That means you are at the mercy of the delivery drivers, if they show up to work. In addition, Farmers Home Furniture is a insurance racket and predatory lender. To the unsuspecting consumer you are selling to, they tack on expensive Life, Home Owners, and Disability insurance to the in-house financing contracts. Farmers Furniture stores require a large percentage of the business to be on in-house financing accounts at a very high interest rate, that you as a sales person are responsible for encouraging customers to sign a contract, when the customers already have questionable credit. Farmers is really a finance company not a furniture store. They blow through the contract information with the customer and very few customers catch it. Farmers Furniture will want you as a sales person to do their marketing for them. Farmers will tell you to post Farmers Furniture on your social media accounts and turn you into a telemarketer. Farmers Furniture is not proactive in perpetuating its own business, You will be required to to the work for them and you still make just minimum wage. Management is terrible, from the top to the bottom. Your commissions are just 3-5 percent, which haven't been adjusted for years. They are in the stone age and have not adjusted to the real world. Farmers Furniture is a Big No, No, No.

This company doesn't respect a healthy work -life balance. You're overworked and underpaid, job descriptions are unclear. They lure you in with stock ownership and paid holidays and a bunch of other stuff. The truth of the matter is yes theirs paid holidays for when corp decides you should have off and they do not even follow their own policies.we were told a week before labor day we were going to have to work the holiday even though in the manual it clearly states you get that holiday off. Also no Furniture store should have to work until 4pm on Christmas Eve, even bojangles closes at 3p. Also you can complain about mismanaged managers but it does nothing but get you retaliation from when your district manager just talks to them. Managers abuse power bc they are salaried and not required to clock in and out but can come in and work an hour or 2 then leave and still be paid for it. At the stores the "little" people actually do their jobs while the big people sit in their offices gossiping for hours on end only actually working for maybe 2 hours out of the whole day. Also needs to be a healthy work relationship balance or their are cliques and you can't complain to anyone bc they just go back and tell the other and then both team up against you. The district managers need to actually eat with every employee when they come to the stores so the employees can feel confident in confiding in them about issues and get them resolved. Also having to hide my location. Do not work for this company. 

Management was very organized with keeping store running, but she was not good at all with managing people, she played favorites, would not listen to reason, was very combative, loved drama, pitted employees against each other, when 1 enployee needed to be reprimanded the other employees knew what that employee supposedly did....alot of chaos is what this manager caused, it was if she thrived on it...would buy lunch for one employee and made a point of letting the other employees know she did, she was very manipulative also lied, she would count sales to her name and another sales persons name when it was someone elses..credit manager was no better, played favorites, never lifted a finger to help clean ever..lied to get other sales people in trouble, would sleep at her desk, the manager was harrassing at times, complain she could smell smoke on a person and tell them to go spray yourself you stink of smoke...yet her district manager was a smoker she would never have spoken like that to her...she would allow one person to be late constantly but wrote everytime another was late, called HR instead of talking to the person first...had no concern or care when an employee was having extreme difficulties for anything...more issues but tired of typing

Farmers Home Furniture for the most part is a great place to work. At the store level your boss (aka, manager) is a great person and has gotten to that position because they have worked hard and proven themselves. Your co-workers are good people and for the most part enjoyable to be around for long periods of time. In just about any role, you could and are responsible for the roles of every other position. (Basically, everyone does a little bit of everything.) Overall, everyone cares about your well-being and they are your family away from your real family. Working at Farmers is also a good place to learn business skills and if you want to, is also a good place to move up and advance your career. All of this while earning a decent and fair income. At the store level this is a good company.

The corporate level is a different story.  The upper level management isn't as great. Too many of the managers have not worked from the bottom up or they have forgotten what it's like to work directly in the store. In most cases it seems they were simply given a position in corporate management because of their last name. Ultimately making life unpleasant for store level managers.

Every day is the same but different, you will see and speak to your customer base and learn about them and their families.  You will know when they feel good or when they are facing issues at  work
or home.  Most are like you, trying to work and make things better for their family better than yesterday.
  You help them find things they need or desire at an affordable price if possible.  To me this is very satisfying,
  You have at least eight other people you will work with most days and each are unique and  have their own way of dealing with the
pressures of their job.  Sometimes you can help them and sometimes they are beyond help.  Building relationships with fellow workers can be great or not but you must try.
   The hardest part of doing the job is when upper management comes with a new and great idea and expects us to be totally enthused about it and it really not that good.
  The best part of the job is when after working hard all month with the good, the .bad and the ugly. You get a phone call or a visit from someone you rather not see and they ask you to forgive them or just say they appreciated all your help, GREAT feeling!

Entered financial data into the company accounting database to be verified and reconciled. Generated invoices upon receipt of billing information and tracked collection progress. Tracked financial progress by creating quarterly and yearly balance sheets. Introduced new and efficient accounting, financial and operational systems. Streamlined daily reporting information entry for efficient record keeping purposes. Entered financial information and payments to guarantee that employees and vendors were paid accurately and on time. Reconciled company bank, credit card and line of credit accounts. Communicated with customers to identify and resolve outstanding payments. Developed monthly, quarterly and annual profit and loss statements and balance sheets. Performed complex general accounting functions, including preparation of journal entries, account analysis and balance sheet reconciliations. Prepared accurate financial statements at end of the quarter. Worked with management at the project level to ensure expense plans are achieved.

I had to lie about my location in fear of what might happen if my review is linked to me. I’m leaving this company after almost 4 years of faithful service. I am severely overworked, I have NO time or money to have a life outside of work - farmers is a company that expects you to live to work instead of working to live! They entice you with stock ownership because they can’t say “we have good hours and good pay” - there are multiple days where I am doing every job in the store because we’re understaffed so I fall behind in my own work, which creates additional work and later nights. Oh, and I’m salaried so I get no overtime. I’m scheduled to report to work 30 minutes before I start getting paid!! The “bonuses” are pitiful for all credit managers do. Would not recommend the job or the company to any family or friends. The most enjoyable part of the job is GETTING TO LEAVE! And all I mentioned doesn’t even include the abuse you have to take from customers when collecting on accounts or dealing with broken furniture. The fact that there is a whole system and department dedicated to furniture repairs should tell you right there how sucky the merch is. Just don’t do it. 

Some of the furniture if available, is put together good! The team in Gaffney is the best! The company however, does not pay enough for all that you have to do! They blame you for things that are not in your power to complete sales. Sometimes you feel less than because you are in sales. If you can't get people approved for credit you can't sell them furniture. You get blamed for that.. If people come in and pay Cash they want you to push them to finance. The product is being sold.. You get criticism for not selling warranties and fabric protection, But you are making sales.. You can't make them buy!! No product, no choice of color or styles, no product, mostly no time frame of when the product will be available.  The computer we only have access to one on the floor,  the system is general and outdated and not user friendly!! People in this area still do not know that we're open! There is no local marketing being done! We have several TV and radio stations, and newspapers in the area nothing utilized.  

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