People seek you out for furniture, but expect long hours - Sales Associate Mor Furniture Employee Review

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The best part of working at Mor Furniture is the moment you get to leave. Whether that’s at the end of the day or the day you land a new job offer. That’s not a joke. That’s genuinely the highlight.

Mor Furniture presents itself as a locally rooted, community-focused company, but the reality is notably different. The company is owned by a large international corporation, a detail they’d rather you not Google. That lack of transparency isn’t a mistake, it’s a feature, and it sets the tone for absolutely everything that follows. The internal motto is literally “we’re building the plane while flying it.” They say it proudly, like it’s bold and visionary. It’s not. It’s an out of touch confession that leadership didn’t plan well enough and decided everyone else should suffer the consequences. Decisions change daily, direction is nonexistent, and when employees push back the go-to response is “that’s just retail.” No, that’s just chaos with a business license. Rather than developing an original brand identity, the standing directive was largely to copy competitors which is a bold strategy for a company that apparently has no idea what it stands for. The only consistent decision-maker in the building is AI. If “the AI” ever goes down, so does the entire operation. It’s less of a tool and more of a life support system for a leadership team that can’t find north on a compass without it. Compensation is its own special kind of disappointment. New hires are recruited with promises of raises and growth, only to be told there’s no money once they’ve already signed on. You’ll be doing the job of four or five people, paid for one, and micromanaged like you can’t be trusted to breathe without approval. Salaried employees are treated like hourly workers. Raises, when they miraculously appear, don’t keep pace with inflation. And once you’re capped? There’s no cost-of-living adjustment. They’ll also dangle the opportunity to work with an international team like it’s a perk. Don’t be fooled. What they’re really doing is having you build out processes from the ground up, only to quietly hand the pieces they find convenient off to an overseas team — piece by piece, role by role. You’re not building something for the future. You’re training your own replacement and writing the manual while you do it. Give it a few years and that “international team” you’ve been collaborating with will absorb your role entirely because it’s more “efficient.” The writing is on the wall. They’re just hoping you don’t read it until it’s too late. The culture is where things get truly impressive, and not in a good way. Leadership has openly bragged that some employees have gone years without raises, as if taking loyalty for granted is somehow a flex. When staff ask for fair compensation, they’re told there’s no budget yet management made it crystal clear their own pay was untouchable. The audacity is truly breathtaking. Burnout isn’t a risk here, it’s part of the onboarding process.