Baer's Furniture Reviews
Updated Mar 16, 2023
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- Current Employee★★★★★
An amazing company with wonderful opportunities
Apr 10, 2022 - Design AssistantRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Working for a family business
Cons
Crazy busy…,need to be present.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
It’s like working in 1970. Desperately need to modernize.
Mar 16, 2023 - Anonymous EmployeeRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
-Commission at 5% -Potential to make 80k+ if you DELIVER 1 million in merchandise
Cons
-Family owned business is usually a good thing. This particular family is out of touch with business. Does not care about the sales person, or making the job easier. It is obvious they do not make any investments back into the business, or their worker. -Draw is not a living wage -550 per week is only 13.50 per hour. If you’re okay living off poverty wages for up to 6 months while you build you business - this may be for you. -Aggressively fires folks not pacing to draw (which is only 13.50 an hour, so what they’re really saying is your 40 hours of effort whether sales made or not, is not worth 13.50 and you’re outta here. Cheap. -Company is quite literally living in the Stone Age. Everything is paper. Sales people do not have tablets or an aggressive way to check stock and quickly service a customer -Door traffic is extremely slow since clients are elderly. They do not have furniture that caters to new money, or any generation after the Boomers -Social media presence is non existent. They have a mild following on Instagram but their marketing is not creative or does not stand out. -PAPER EVERYWHERE. I have never seen a company waste so much paper in my life. Everything is handwritten. PAPER SALES ORDERS, AND their computer system dates back to 1980. -0 technology advancements -extremely vulnerable to cyber security threats. Client and employee personal information is not secure
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Some nice people work here. Few, but they exist. They will throw you under the bus with grace and dignity.
Cons
You are expected to clean up after a lazy and entitled sales team. They will cry about doing their jobs, they do not answer their phones, they do not return those calls, they do not properly close orders, they regularly leave you holding the bag regarding retaining their sales. Of course, the sales staff then get angry with you when those customers get angry or cancel. Of course, everything is your fault, you are to be blamed by sales, management, and customers. The people responsible regarding warranty and delivery issues rarely answer the phone, or behave as if they are clueless. Resulting in an angry call back to you, of course. You have the one tool of sending an email to correct these problems, and that goes right to the ones who originally ignored them. This is also a dead end job. There is nowhere for you to go, and you are paid as much as a gas station employee. The store is closed on Easter Sunday, but you take the hit in pay - it's not a paid holiday. Or, you can use your vacation time, as a rather forced use of your compensation. Finally! Your job will change frequently. About once a week, settling more and more responsibility on your head. No raise with that - you get the same raise as everyone else every year. Which, also, the new guy gets paid from the get go, and you are stuck training them. How about that! There's no manual, no real rules, besides what management dictates as the rules that week, always adding, of course, as sales complains, and boy, can they complain. And your management will never, ever, stick up for you - you are always wrong.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Lots of foot traffic so making sales was not difficult.
Cons
Management is the absolute worst.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Low Pay Wages
Aug 29, 2022 - Customer Service Specialist in Miami, FLRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
You learn alot of valuable skills
Cons
Low Pay Wage for amount of work performed
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Excellent schedule, good benefits, company advertises
Cons
Unethical Management, owners competition among employees with preferences
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
They do have flexible schedule
Cons
There are no cons here
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Potential to make a lot of money
Cons
Associates are hypocrites and very negative and cannot stand seeing someone else's success when continually say it cannot be done, they like to come around and do nothing but complain. No respect, demeaning towards each other and management. They love to plot until they get their way. Lazy management with great potential for business that is not exploited; they seem to love to hire cheap failed management from other companies. The office lazy and expect the sales associate to do everything. Customers are tossed around like a hot potato, if the sales do not attend to them. Mostly recalcitrant older people that hate those that produce because they are made to look bad
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Management Pay structure Work life balance
Cons
Retail holiday hours Benefits could be better
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great group of guys and a pretty chill job. Most of the furniture is already assembled waiting for you just to install it.
Cons
Alot of the furniture is solid real wood so its heavy, but you have lift-gate and dollies.
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Baer's Furniture has an overall rating of 2.9 out of 5, based on over 57 reviews left anonymously by employees. 35% of employees would recommend working at Baer's Furniture to a friend and 39% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 6% over the last 12 months.
35% of Baer's Furniture employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Baer's Furniture 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.6 for culture and values and 2.9 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Baer's Furniture to be coworkers, career development and the cons to be benefits, compensation, management.
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