Cabela's Reviews

Cons

May be a bit difficult to sell if you are checking out customers.

Cons

All retail jobs suck, but someones gotta do it.

Cons

Erratic scheduling, you cannot have a set schedule. The constant hounding about getting the credit cards it’s awful. Every 15 to 20 minutes you’re hearing about why hasn’t anyone gotten a credit card, you’re constantly having to push credit cards on to the customers. It’s frustrating and did moralizing.

Cons

Fair number of lazy individuals.

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Everything else
No one knows how to communicate

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- Doesn't matter how hard you work, how much product you sell, or if you're the nicest guy/gal in the world, you must sell club visa cards to keep your job.
- You must get one club visa card referral before working in the department you signed up to be in. You will stand in the front of the store and pitch the card to every single person who walks in until you get a referral. This can be difficult, as most everyone has one or doesn't want another credit card.
- After your one referral, you must get 10 every 2-3 months as a part time employee, or 20 as a full time employee. This can be exceedingly difficult as a customer will be badgered when they walk in, in every department, and when they cash out, making your job at getting cards seem futile. The only way you can get a referral and have it count is if you give a slip of paper telling about the benefits of the card to the customer with your employee ID on the back of it. This paper then must be given to the person at the "club booth" at the front of the store, and the customer must give their SSN before it counts as one referral. This process relies on that the customer gives your paper with your ID, that the person at the front desk can "read" it and enter you ID, and that the customer gives their SSN(which often then not they get spooked and leave). Their fairy tale stories of outfitters in the cash lane getting 200 club cards in 3 months are stupid, as that is the last point of contact where a customer is satisfied with their product and is preparing to finalize a purchase and is most likely to look towards added bonuses off their purchase(this is where it makes the most sense to ask about the card).
- As an added bonus to being constantly harassed by management to sell more cards, they are often patronizing and on massive ego trips.
- You will be harassed about how you do not have equipment that should be supplied to you but isn't due to shortages and incompetence(I got my radio to speak to other outfitters almost a month into working there, and most days you will not be give ANY of the proper tools for the job).
- Training is done over shoddy videos from the 90s. You will learn little about the products in your department and will be left out to dry by management for not knowing what you were trained in, and immediately where it is. Rare training done by management is done to belittle rather than provide knowledge.

Cons

Clientele are ruthless and unforgiving of diversity. Mind numbing. Management treats you like you are dumb.

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There are a lot of negatives about working here. First off, ALL THEY ARE ABOUT IS THE CABELAS CLUB CREDIT CARD. As a cashier, you are expected to try and sell a credit card to every customer. If the customer says YES (only 2% of the time), you have to stop what you're doing, suspend the transaction, and walk them over to the Cabelas Club credit card booth so they can spend another 15-20 min applying for a credit card they probably won't even get approved for. Oh did I mention the referral bonus is only $1? Simply not worth the effort to try and sell credit cards to people 8 hours a day for only $1. If you don't get enough referrals per month, your managers will have a talk with you. Sometimes they make you go up to the front and "greet" customers. But it's not greeting, it's harassing customers right as they walk in the door to sign up for a credit card. Our store managers always push us to sell cards, NOT for the customer, but for the bonus check they receive off of it.

Then you are required to ask for the customer's phone number every transaction. It's not connected to a rewards account, it's for "demographic" purposes. Some customers get very angry if you ask for their phone number, and come up with a dumb response like, "I don't have one", or "Can I have yours?". I've seen older men make sexual remarks towards our female cashiers like, "What are you gonna call me later?". It's absolutely disgusting. Your managers keep track of your "phone capture" percentage every week and make you sign off on it. There are consequences if it's under 75% capture. It's a bit ridiculous. Most employees input fake numbers just to keep from getting yelled at by management.

The POS system is the worst. It's slow, confusing, and troublesome. If a customer puts their credit card into the chip reader wrong, the whole thing freezes and you have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and reboot the whole program. Meanwhile customers are piling up in your line, and you have to move to another register creating more confusion. This can happen multiple times a day.

The customers here are awful. They are all grumpy old men who don't know how to read signs and demand discounts if the price doesn't ring up correct. They also act like they've never used a credit card before and slow down the check out process even more having to walk them through the transaction like, "Ok go ahead and insert your card, other way, no the other way, here let me just do it sir," They make up prices all of the time, they always talk about an invisible clearance rack that doesn't exist, they are cheapskates. You are forced to change the price for them almost all of the time, and management doesn't care.

You work almost every weekend and holiday, the shifts are 8 1/2 hours long, even for part time employees, and the pay is terrible for what you're expected to do on a daily basis. The scheduling is also very inconsistent. You would think the "World's Foremost Outfitters" are paid more than Wal-Mart employees, nope!

Cons

It was fine working there, not great, not horrible.

Cons

CLUB CARD CLUB CARD CLUB CARD. You are forced to sell club cards and if you don’t you will constantly hounded by management. You are expected to make a quota on club cards, and if you don’t managers will harass you until you quit. you are only recognized if you sell club cards.