I agree with you Kara, but I liked working there for the people I worked with. Not for the company it's self (Structube). It's a family owned business based in Montreal with approx. 22 stores, 9 of which are in Ontario. The company has been open for 30 years, my particular location has only been open for 3. About a month before I joined the company, 2 new stores were opened, one one each side of mine, about 15 min in either direction. Naturally this would drastically reduce the amount of customers that would come to my store as they would stop at the other two locations since they are closer. The owners however have not taken this into account when demanding our monthly budget which is usually somewhere around $192 000.00 and up.
Individually sales people (part-time and full-time) are expected to make atleast $28,000 a month. We get paid $13/hr. (Stock only got paid $10.00, I was lucky in the fact that I got back to the floor, a month before they eliminated stock position and fired every stock person.) Managers and Assistant Managers (I'm not SUPPOSED to know this) get paid $19/hr and $16/hr, respectively and are required to make $34,000 a month. After this qoute has been hit (which is impossible in our location [the down town stores do it though]) we get 3% commission on anything we make over that amount.
When I started with the company, the staffing was as follows:
Manager: Dorota (older Polish lady who treated me as her own child)
Assistant Manager: Denise (Older english lady, only knew her for about a week before she quit)
Full-Time Sales: ME! (lovable WOP/Limey mix girl in disguise lol)
Part-Time Sales: Sherise (bitchy African-american girl..)
Part-Time Sales: Alex (Lazy African-american male)
Part-Time Sales: Mike (Cool Canadian male, with a lot going for him)
Within the first two months, Denise left (she had already given two-weeks notice before I started), Alex was fired as he stopped showing up for work and lied about why. Then Balbir (Weird/funny Idian dude! our first stock man) was hired, Sherise and Mike were let go (Head Office said they were paying out too much for the store to do so crappy) and David(Perky, feminine, married white man!) "came back" from our North York location to be our Assistant Manager.
Third month, Full-time sales Allwyn( Idian guy, from Dubai! Very forgetful, very funny) was hired. With this time we were happiest! Sales for the store actually went OVER BUDGET, by the 4th month!
Fifth Month, John (District Manager) came into the store. By "Order from Zandra (Regional Manager)" our store was to be "downsized" I was given the option of being demoted, or let-go. No harm meant against Balbir, I chose to take the $3 pay cut. Balbir was fired. I was given the option of personally charging customers non-taxed cash to assemble products to make up for the lost pay. A week later Iva(Middled aged Russian woman, full of her self) was hired to replace me!? Obviously downsizing was a LIE!
Sixth month, Memo was sent from head office, forbidding Structube employees from assembling products as we were to outsource such services to another company for a much higher price than I was charging (which meant the company would get some of the money). Zandra was fired, John promoted and Robert (a store Manager from another location) became District Manager.
Seventh Month, Iva is fired.
Eighth Month, Dorota was fired. Worst...day....ever. The arrogant self-centred ass Mark was hired in her place a week later.
Tenth Month, despite all his prickiness, Mark manages to get me promoted back to sales person.
This topic has already stated what has happened on my month number 12.
