Best Buy Portland Reviews

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Revenue goals can be stressful when there isn't enough foot traffic. Also the computers could use some updating.

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Requires constant learning of new technology

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No direct career advancement for position. Newly hired employees are hired at higher pay than the veterans, and won’t adjust pay to keep even. They hire at higher rate to recruit talent, but don’t care as much about retainment. This location has 2 doors, so harder to reduce shrink due to not seeing all traffic coming in. Sales team only sees $ signs for moving up, and not preventing shrink from occurring .

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Not a good work life balance

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-Management is never on the same page as each other
-Expected to contact customers in your area multiple times like you're a used car salesman
-Workplace drama gets out of control, especially in a larger store with more employees
-Employee discount is not what you think it is. IRS states that a discount larger than 20% granted by a corporation has to be reported as taxable income. Example: If you buy a set of speakers for 600 dollars with the employee discount, and list price is 1200 dollars, that is a 50 percent discount. So, the 600 dollars you saved at the time of sale, is later reported on your paycheck on the pay period you purchased the speakers as "Merchandise Rcvd". You are taxed for 600 dollars made. There have been employees in the store that have saved money for large purchases, made the purchase, and then the following check they receive is only 10 dollars, because most of their check has been taxed. Of course, they don't mention this to you at NEI (New Employee Induction) when they first hire you.

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Can be hard to get full-time employment
Customers can be a pain

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Occasionally terrible customers, hours can be sketchy, management didn't listen to feedback that other workers would give.

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Work weekends and holidays.

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Even though the employees aren't on commission they are told to sell sell sell, and don't care about the customers because they could be fired for low sales. I went in with a computer background already and the other employees were telling outright lies to get the sale.

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I had the misfortune of working for a more poorly managed store, whereas my first store was heaven in comparison. Unfortunately, unless you're hospitalized, being sick counts as an "Unexcused absence from work" (i.e. High Fevers and Food Poisoning). Your quarterly report is not based on how much profit you make for the store, but rather how much of certain products you sell, even if your generated profits that exceed what they expect you to do. Supervisors and management don't communicate and have their own agendas for how you should do things, which end up getting you in trouble 2 different ways. Your hours are also based on how many of a certain product (like protection plans) you sell, rather than the amount of profit you bring to the company (positive and rave reviews from customers about you do not factor in their decision, either). Even when injured with a limb in a brace/cast, you are expected to perform the same physical labor as an uninjured person (e.g. lifting large boxes from shipments of product) and you get penalized for not meeting that same level of performance.