Appliance Factory & Mattress Kingdom Employee Reviews about "great people"

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1. Much like school, you will do things here you don't want to do and there's not much you can do about it. Sometimes, upper management is learning along with you, so projects often involve a trial-and-error process that can get frustrating. Expectations can be sky-high and missteps will be held accountable. The way to power through all of that I've found is to not take it personally--but that concept is much easier said than done. 2. We have a ton of great people who have a hard time talking to each other. Internal communications could use a huge face lift. 3. A positive attitude is hard to muster sometimes without good lines of communication. It's also not a 'pretty' work environment. This is still a small business in many ways, so there are no frills, no yoga balls in place of chairs and no colorful break rooms with a kegerator. The hours are long. Bottom line: You must be willing to meet and exceed expectations, be humble enough admit when you're wrong and be strong enough ask for help whenever possible.

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Note: I waited quite a bit before writing this review because I wouldn't put it passed the CEO to try and retaliate somehow. He tried suing the last batch of accountant clerks that quit. As for this company, I don't know how this company continues to operate with terrible leadership at the corporate level. Basically, no accountability. The promise of PTO is a LIE. And I have never seen should a high turnover rate, especially in corporate. And that one long review about how great working for accounting is a BIG RED FLAG (fake review) because I worked in that department. The biggest issue was people quitting after a few months, so the workload piles on until you are eventually asked to deal with it under the pretense of cross-training. Then you end up just doing the work along with your normal duties with no pay raise. The promise of a potential promotion to a leadership role is also a lie unless that is your working down in the warehouse. If someone in the corp. office quits, you might be lucky and unlucky and be asked to go up there to fill an empty seat. I can go on and on, but I will leave it at this. Do not work here if you care about your mental health and wellbeing.

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Owner is HORRIBLE. Company would be great if Mr. Ewing would let the people in this company do their jobs without constant threats, berating people, and treating people like second class citizens. Upper management continuously finds ways to screw people out of money by taking away spiff incentives, and using money provided to the company by their vendors to pay minimum wage salaries. This was quite possibly the WORST place I have ever worked. Associates are required to pose as private sellers on for sale sites like Craigslist because the owner is too cheap to pay for actual dealer ads. If you refuse to fraudulently post his appliances as a private seller you are fired. Health insurance is ok for employees, but if you try to add a spouse the company contributes $0 of the premium making it unaffordable at best.

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Very deceptive practices, skirting on the edge of illegal. You are never off the clock, 5 managers in a year, low traffic count

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Hours can be tough for some.

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Customers can be hard at times, but it depends on how you take care of your customer, i.e., listening actively, and being trustworthy.

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While under employment I personally did not experience anything worth saying negative about. If you begin your day negative your day is negative, if you start your day positive , you might just have a brighter day!~ Y.V

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Way to much micro managing. Miscommunication all over the board. Running a big company like a small one. Misleading Marketing leads to upset customers.