Thanks, and goodbye...
Well, after facing a write-up after only having worked a month and a half at B&N, for leaving the safe open, of all things (I'm a CWS), I've decided I'm going to leave. It isn't the only reason, but it's the straw that broke the camel's back, really.
I have never worked for a company that was so large and still so misguided. I'm not even sure I'm going to remain a customer, in all honesty. After seeing what the people, at least at my store, go through, I've had quite enough. Management doesn't communicate with one another, blame is assigned in all the wrong fashions to the wrong people, and "training" is utterly non-existent. The only way I learned an iota of what I needed to learn there was by screwing up something and getting yelled at for it. When you do something correctly(see earlier discussions on membership sales) it is overlooked or chalked up as 'expected'. If you mess up, it's immediately a massive issue and they feel the need to make you feel like a kid in the principal's office all over again. I'm tired of it. I'm 22 years old and I don't work my ass off to be treated like a misbehaving child.
Good luck, everyone else. I hope the company brings you considerably less grief than it's afforded me.
~Fox
I have never worked for a company that was so large and still so misguided. I'm not even sure I'm going to remain a customer, in all honesty. After seeing what the people, at least at my store, go through, I've had quite enough. Management doesn't communicate with one another, blame is assigned in all the wrong fashions to the wrong people, and "training" is utterly non-existent. The only way I learned an iota of what I needed to learn there was by screwing up something and getting yelled at for it. When you do something correctly(see earlier discussions on membership sales) it is overlooked or chalked up as 'expected'. If you mess up, it's immediately a massive issue and they feel the need to make you feel like a kid in the principal's office all over again. I'm tired of it. I'm 22 years old and I don't work my ass off to be treated like a misbehaving child.
Good luck, everyone else. I hope the company brings you considerably less grief than it's afforded me.
~Fox