Some cool products, but completely screwed up company. - First Assistant Manager Earthbound Trading Employee Review

2.0
Apr 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-50% discount -"Cool" store vibe with some neat product from all over the world

Cons

-Awful pay -Poor, poor, POOR upper management -Too much focus on sales goals, not enough focus on training employees/merchandising -No training of employees. You are left to learn on your own, and when mistakes happen, they will terminate you. -Terrible hours if you are in a full-time position, you don't get any part of your day! -Some neat product, though most is cheaply made and breaks easily -Somewhat schizophrenic store theme/vision -It's too easy for anyone to be promoted in this company, resulting in poor management and completely screwed store operations. -Extremely unprofessional management and overall work environment. Overall, this company LIKES to believe they know what they are doing, when in reality, behind the sales floor there are a lot of underlying issues. In the 6 months I worked at Earthbound, I saw 10 employees come and go and extremely under qualified people get promoted into management positions. This company is a joke.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fun. easy going retail environment

Cons

The company hired me to move from one city to another 2 hours away and then closed the location they hired me to work at 5 months after hiring me. I found out later this had to have been in the works all along and it was not communicated to me that this was to be the case. I left a job I had had for 7 years to move to a new city for a fresh start only to shortly after have a piece of that start removed by a company with no compassion. They then offered me a lesser position at another location where the pay wasn't even the least bit comparable. This truly could have been a lovely position where it not for all that got in the way.

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