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Kimbrells Furniture

The furniture business is like many businesses it can get in your blood. I came from a family business that operated for 52 years in my town. The reward of this business was my customers. I enjoyed them and I loved them and was honest and caring and took care of all of their needs and information that was allowed. Co workers in this business can bring you down with negetivity concerning work but is not uncommon in this day and time. Management changed 6 times in my time spent here due to many reasons. Main reasons was unseasoned management, arrogance without knowledge and common sense and not being humble enough take information from those who have delt with all of the problems and using wisdom to cure problems and profit loss. As many corparate owned businesses politics the majority of the time caused company loss. I am sure that not all corparate owned businesses are the same but many do deal with profit losses due to these reasons. Many of the managers (not all) depended on if you have my back I have your attitude which did cause loss of customers on a huge scale. The hardest part of this employment to me was for me to care and do my best to bring this business up. I did make the mistake of out of concern for profits I pointed out to upper management what was causing part of profit loss and it trickled down to store management and the store manager out of fear of his reprimands from upper management I was let go for the first time in my entire life. I was not looking for any advancement at that time but was there to increase profits. This story I tell may or may not help me with employment but I stood in the floor seven days a week with no day off for months for the company to decide if they should stay open on Sundays to increase sales for the store. I did this for my profits and the store profits without being asked if I would. The type of business was wonderfull, the customers was wonderful, I love to work and take pride in my accomplishments. I would love employment with a company that can see with hard figures and can see loyalty when it is presented.
I want 10 years with one company that I will not leave and work toward increasing sales and profits before I retire. I am about business, respect, loyalty to the owners and my own pride of who I am . Giving the client respect, loyalty, trust that I can provide for repeat business over and over again. You never make money on a one time customer. Give an experience, not a sale.

A typicall day at work, will be a routine of making sure your cash drawer is counted and ready. Getting all your customer calls ready. There is always something to do. If its not calling for due payments, or taking a payments, or Helping a customer out, or negotiating to financie. What I love about this company is that they train you on anything you need to know, and there patient, depende on your skills and ethicts. I loved my manager, I say the way she runs the store  reflects on the co-workers, and speeking of the co-workes, I enojed working with all of them. If your profetional nothing will get in your way and your learn to get alone. The hardest part for me, would be making a mistack, for the more you do the bad it looks on you. The most enjoayble is knowing that your doing yourjob right and seeing that the Manager heart is happy, plus your heart can be at rest and the job gets done.

A typical day of work included opening of store as well as closing, greeting and helping customers with choosing home furnishings, taking payments, running contracts , making sales calls as well as mailing advertisements and making collection calls.
I learned how to read customers and interact with them based on their needs.
Management is very hard to work with always looking for someone to blame stuff on if anything went wrong... was way too worried about their self getting in trouble and not really looking out for employees.
Hardest part of the job was to be willing to take blame for something that should have done by in store management but wasn't.
The most enjoyable part of the job was interacting with the public and meeting new people and helping them to make decisions on purchases they were happy with.

I enjoy working for Kimbrells as a company for several years.
For the last few years the company place a new manager at the Broad St.Sumter location, since then there have experience high employment turn over, unhappy employees and worked in a hostel environment with confusing work duties.
They do not have a training program in place for promotional advancement. You learn as you go and Shadow others. 
No manager HR or labor laws training for managers at store level.
No management skills as to how to micro manage, write job performance or assign daily duties.

Worst company to work for work for kimbrells furniture for six years, past over for promotion new manager came in with no management background firing employees for stupid personal reason i got fired no reason help build business up last 2 years manager crying abount 13 dollars a hour is too much for opening and closing store doing bank deposits do go work for kimbrells they are not up with times with pay and they up in charlotte collecting money and dont care whats going on in stores as long as they are making money!####

I feel that the it is a good company to work for. The benefits are not good at all and there is no room for advancement. I worked in the office as a credit associate and I am also bilingual in Spanish and English and made very little compensation. I made less than the sales persons. It is a very easy job, no complaints as far as the difficulty of the job. Just no room for advancement even though it will be mentioned to you, you will never advance.

What is the best part of working at the company?
THE CUSTOMERS AND THE SMILES FROM THEM

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
HAVING YOUR SALES STOLEN EVERY WEEK!!!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
VERY POOR THE THINGS SAID ABOUT CERTAIN PEOPLE OF COLOR 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
STRESSFUL AGGRAVATED AND HEADACHES AND POOR MANAGEMENT

The job its alright some good days some bad days.  But they aren’t equipped for what the job needs you got to work with what they have. they pay its not that great for the work that i used to do there. And the management Human Resource, seems to care for there employees but not they don’t give a heck about employees. Its not worth working there not the money workplace. 

The pay is horrible...100% commission, you have a manager that tells you in meetings that you will sell to each customer...you will talk them into a piece of furniture...sorry, but people have their mind made up before they walk in... at no point unless the customer is weak are you going to talk them into something they may not need.

I worked for this company for 13 years and they just let me go wouldn't call it fired ,because both the supervisor and the manager it was nothing I did

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