RadioShack Reviews

Pros

Radio Shack is one of the only electronic companies that pays commission!!

Cons

Need more coverage on the sales floor.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire a training coordinator for each district or region.

Pros

Everything is simple , lots of way to earn commission.

Cons

a lot of pressure when it comes to selling . very strict on hours

Advice to Senior Management

ease up off the associates when it comes to sales. you win some you lose some

Pros

good salary
typically no late night or weekend work
flexibility in taking days off

Cons

not progressive
promotions are not about skills or abilities
good old boy network
no training or professional development encouraged

Pros

Spiffs. Monthly Bonus. Lots of hands on experience.

Cons

Daily sales pressure. One bad sales performance day isn't erased by a great performance days. No distinction between urban and rural markets. Working off the clock.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on employee development rather than hitting daily sales numbers. Hire more employees so that managers don't have to work off the clock.

Pros

Co-Workers are all great to be around. A lot of team work goes on to get through the day.
Work/life balance is good so long as your manage your time, very dependent on your boss.
Middle Management has a sincere interest in the business and try to keep moral up.

Cons

Senior Management is too close to the day to day activities which stifles people from actually feeling empowered and valued to the company. Decisions are made for you from upper management.
The overall moral is low since the big layoffs in 2006, the leadership team has done very little to create the fun atmosphere this place use to have, people just come to work and go home, very little pride in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

If you "need" a job, this place is OK, but don't expect to be able to come in and make a difference right away. I expect things will get better once the Senior management team turns over, which might be sooner than later.

Pros

Performance base pay, your numbers will tell you how good you are doing, best of all is that the comission is a lot better than minimum wage (which is guaranteed), same goes for the "incentives" if you do what you are told you'll make money.

Cons

Some of the times some managers get tunnel vision and forget that you are a person, not a sales machines, and forget about things that happen in everyone's life that are out of your control, but nothing that good comunication won't resolve.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that one day you were an employee, and now that you are in a position of leadership and change, you can change certain aspects (within the store) like treatment, motivation, etc. that you dodn't like when you were an employee, be more empathic with your fellow managers and co-workers (employees), because without them you wouldn't be where you are at.

Pros

Different each day, Fair if better benefits, Fun place to work and great coworkers. Great workplace environment. Flexible work schedules. Dynamic compensation. Encouraged / Practiced Professionalism.

Cons

Employee promotions can seem to be lopsided. Depending on different locations higher ups can be varied in competence or variances in the workplace.

Advice to Senior Management

Employee promotions could be improved. Performance rewards could be higher based on districts.

Pros

All they care about is your ability to sell a cell phone, and that should be your main concern considering that is your greatest opportunity to make more than minimum wage. If you know how to sell a cell phone you will make decent money.

Cons

Management lied constantly. If you get a promise to run a store get it in writing. DM's usually had no experience in sales and were just bullheaded, and jobs would be threatened if store didn't get a phone out.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't hire outside for management, and don't sit on your ass all day in back and snake sales from your associates.

Pros

co workers can become a great tight knit unit and job can become fun if your dealing with the right people pay is ok if you sell a bunch of phones

Cons

no work life balance whatsoever. Corporate is oblivious to whats going on in the real world on the sales floor and they just "dashboard manage"

Advice to Senior Management

pay your associates more they work extremely hard and pretty much fight to get post paid they should be getting more than a measly 7.25 for part time

Pros

Easy company to work for

Cons

Senior Management is Poor!!! Please Change the Pay Scale

Advice to Senior Management

Bring Back Commisssion.........Watch the numbers grow!!!