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Turners Outdoorsman

Great place to receive employee discounts and industry perks. However, often times you are not informed of or made privy to those perks. Sometimes those perks/programs have limited time periods and only certain employees are made aware of them, creating an unfair advantage, especially if it's one where you compete with fellow employees. However, without those frustrations, there are many great opportunities to enjoy the hunting and shooting sports. Work environment can be busy, you're mostly doing paperwork all day, but if you enjoy the products it really helps. Flexible schedules allow for good balance of work/life, unless you're management. Then your schedule is all over the place. But I'm assuming that's with all retail management. Management itself varies from person to person, but my personal experience has been mostly great. For others and other locations, not so much. Pay is garbage. Minimum wage to be responsible for filling out and processing federal paperwork with tight tolerances. Raises/reviews are currently non existent and way past due. If not for that, any other frustrations are fairly easy to handle and work with. Overall great industry perks, but very low pay and when you advance into management your work/life balance takes a hit.

Working at Turner's can be a fun and enjoyable working environment but at the same time it can be stressful and frustrating.  While working for Turner's I have learned many new things about firearms, hunting and fishing combined. I have met many great customers and made friends out of my coworkers. I have had many memorable experiences at this job. This workplace can be considered "fun" from time to time but it doesn't always last. The job can quickly become stressful when it gets busy or when your boss is mad at you for something you didn't even do. Not to mention the frustration when your boss lies to your face numerous times. The management at Turner's is the biggest downside for working there in my opinion. Not to mention the minimum wage pay with no hopes of a raise or promotion. But besides all the negatives the overall experience working for Turner's Outdoorsman can make for a decent job. Just know that it's not a job to make a career out of, it's just something for the time being.

I worked for Turner's in the late 90's for 6 years and for the most part, enjoyed my time there. There were a lot of hours at the corporate level-- sometimes 85 hours a week (during store openings) and a lot of weekends. Store level employees are basically 40+ hrs./week.

For a purely hunting/fishing retailer we feel during our (the team I worked with) tenure there, we had the best group of stores and products anywhere--GM was an excellent leader and helped make the stores the best they could be. In the early 90's we were the number 17 retailer in the US in terms of volume (distribution included), prior to Cabela's, Bass Pro, and the "big box" chains.

Ownership has now changed, so I cannot speak for what it is like to work here now. Some employees I worked with, however, have gone on to other key positions within the industry.

I consider Turner's to be a great starting job, but nothing more. There is slim opportunity for advancement, and even if there is you do not want to take it because the pay is so low (not a career job). The only reason I stayed so long is because I loved the people I worked with. I feel bad for managers because they literally only make 1.50 more than minimum wage. Being a cashier you have a slim opportunity to make more money, compared to sales associates because some products you do get commission. We rarely had store meetings, but nothing was accomplished anyways. Management will tend to favor people who sell more, and there is never any training done. The most enjoyable part of the job was the people I worked with, but be warned you will get used if you do your job right. Turner's needs to be better managed starting with the store managers and the GM's who never make an appearance.

There are good people are Turners, then there are people strictly there for the money. Now don't get me wrong, the pay is not great. I merely mean how the seasonal ads are regurgitated, how they undercut the surrounding small businesses, and are very territorial over their employees futures.  Territory is something very serious to them and they over saturate it. Turnover is ridiculous. There is a saying you will learn if you work there, and it's "The good one's come back." I'll let you put together what this all means in relationship with each other. They're rapidly expanding their territory and it doesn't matter which stores survive it or not, and you can see that based on the employees natures and the way some stores look. How do I know? I stayed long enough.

Most of the managers have wages so low, they cannot cover their cost of living.  A sales associate will only make 12 or 12.50 with an empty promise they will get a wage increase during annual review (which are never done on time).  The job is only worthwhile if you have a real job, and just work there on the weekends for the perks (Discounts & Vendor  Rewards).  Their logistics is very poor, which in turn means angry customers unleashing their rage on poor timmy when they find out the product they purchased is never going to arrive.  You will become a paralegal and constantly argue with customers about required documentation.  Customers will berate you because of background fee's and wait times, all while neglecting the fact they never voted in local elections.  Your hair will turn grey, your wallet will be empty, and the two Australians that own the company will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Ive been an employee and a customer. Ive known some of these guys for a long time now and the pay isnt right. It's a fun job but when you overwork and under pay employees who have worked for you for sometimes a decade, it really makes you realize what kind of company this is. Most of us make around $11 an hour, ive heard management gets a -couple- dollars more.. a dollar raise per permotion for most.. great side job but don't expect to pay the bills. Sometimes I feel bad for the workers because you can tell they genuinely enjoy working there but are struggling with the quality of life because of the pay. I hope the owners see this someday and realize how we feel working for them. You can move up in the company but most of us know better because the pay is such a joke.

The good: Pretty generous discount on different products. Can sometimes be a pleasant environment with good customers that just come in to say hello. 

The bad: Very toxic environment as any sales driven business can be. Fellow employees can be hit or miss. You get the ones that are pretty laid back and fun to just talk to about the business and other things. On the flip side, there are those that will jump at the chance to steal any sale that you are working on and can use devious tactics to do so. 

The ugly: Management likes to play favorites, a lot. If you don't kiss the rear ends of certain people, you will end up losing hours, which equals to less sales, which equals to you getting scolded on why your sales are so low. Pay isn't that great and there tends to be a high turn around of employees. 

-A typical day at work at Turners consist of getting the gun cases ready for sales. Make sure the store is stocked with products. Assist all customers with any questions asked.
- I learned so many things about various handguns, rifles, and shotguns. I learned how to keep track of special orders and how to take inventory on all the guns and other products in the store.
- Management was especially excellent. always worked around school schedules and other personal schedules. fun to work with.
- Hardest part of the job was remembering all the guns and which caliber ammunition goes with it and all the accessories.
- Most enjoyable part of the job was working with all the employees, everybody had a stand up attitude and all enjoyed working with each other. like a tight knit family.

_Iwould answer phones, data entry, accounting, licensing,clerical work scheduling meeting, you name it I did it!

-I learned that with this particular company the more you gave the more they took from you without compensation or regonition.
They never wanted to increase my pay even though they utilized me throughout the office.

-Management was nice but was clearly using me.

-My co-workers were all nice and friendly to work with. Never had a problem with them.  All of us got along!

-The hardest part of my job was trying to be placed in a department where I belonged.Instead of being bounced around from department to department.

-The most enjoyable part of my job was being able to be so veristile! No one could replace me.

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Assistant store manager 23 salaries reported	$20.24 per hour

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