Best Buy reviews

First and foremost, retail is not a family friendly occupation. Many lives have been turned assunder due to retail hours. It is mostly nights, weekends, and holidays--and I mean ALL of them--ok, 98%. That leads to numerous breakups, divorces, and latch-key kids for associates. It also means upset and depressed associates. And it's even worse for managers, who sometimes (depending on the season of the year or severity of the problems at work) don't even get a day off---in their 60+ hour workweeks. If they are recruiting you for supervisory or management, they will tell you it's 50-55 hours, but most managers end up putting in an extra hour a day (off season) and an extra couple of hours a day (October through January) plus work one of their rare days off. And so, in peak Christmas retail season salaried employees can put in upwards of 70 hour weeks.

The mentality of the company is very heavy on paperwork and worthless business plans. As I continued to work my way up the retail ladder I found that I had to spend more time filling out forms and coaching employees with machine-like scripted sales presentations. I felt that over time there was mass-favoritism in the eyes of management. If you pushed back on any of the store initiatives you were signing your own death sentence. Working up through the ranks was more of a product of how much butt you kissed than your own hard work. I enjoyed the whole experience but I felt that there were some areas for improvement.