Destructive Management Style - Anonymous employee Sur La Table Employee Review

2.0
Jun 2, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting customers Learn a great deal from customers 40% discount on regular priced items Many of the co-workers are really nice

Cons

Management, which includes the District Manager, do not care about the employees, its all about reports. Long term employees are not respected. There is no recognition of employees strengths or accomplishments unless you are among the chosen few. Holiday hiring a disaster-hours are kept mainly for the temp workers who are also paid a higher hourly salary. Those employees with product knowledge are pressured to sell, sell, sell while the temps are on the registers. So different expectations, different salaries.

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