Books A Million Sales Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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Overall unhealthy and bad environment. It is a self sabotaging company.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They are good to the employees
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
the team needs to be completely removed and replaced.
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Communication is key, store 954 struggles with communication skills. Anytime I suggest we need better communication, I get a viral beating/ talking to about not being part of the team.
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This company was terrible to work for. It focused so hard on pushing discount cards off on people that they had to buy mind you and demanding its employees meet a certain goal that was unreasonable.
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Leadership needs to be better at communication, and keeping personal issues separate from work issues.
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Care more about their employees and better pay
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
The benefits that I get.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
if we were treated with respect like any human deserves, that alone would increase the quality if work we do.
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I been full-time for 1 year now. But, I’m the last to know about task to be done. Communication is the worse and has become a hostile environment to work. I’ve been accused for several accusations which are fa
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I worked my butt off for this company and it was a terrible experience. Where i was doing a manager job but not being paid for it as well as being forced to sell my customers a discount card that I knew would not benefit them or I wouldn't have a job.
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The pay rate is not equal to the amount and quality of work expected
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The company does not care about its workers. Everyone is replaceable and my store has big turnover and those who put in time are run into the ground
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What are some of the best things about your team?
We get along. They're all pretty nice.
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They all love books, so always something to talk about
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We will help each other when needed
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The employees are great and. So is assistant manager. We all work as a team
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Everyone is very down to earth and kind of goofy. They are all very friendly.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Communication skills. Coworkers talk too much about personal life which shouldn’t be allowed in a working environme
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It was a terrible environment to work in.
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Its more of the upper management that I have a problem with.
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There is only teamwork with half of the staff. There is no communication.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
My coworkers, being around books and talking about books with people.
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Probably the fact that we all have common interests
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discount on items in store
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
We need harsh rules on communication and personal life of what can be said and shouldn’t be allow
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The company needs to become more customer minded. We build relationships with these people and get them to come back time and again. Forcing employees to exploit this relationship by making people force a gamestop type tactic on the customers is embarassing.
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More fairness amongst employees. Hire better people
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It’s a slow store so not many customers. The only problem is the manager
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Employees should get paid better. People who actually do work should be compensated for it.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
The manager was friendly and humorous
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It was casual and short
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It wasn't too serious. The interviewing manager made me feel comfortable and welcome.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
it all depends on who interviews you. So its not a standardized process.
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Make the questions asked more meaningful and not waste time.
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What makes you most happy at work?
Interaction with customers! You meet so many amazing people and always have stories to tell and share
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My co-workers and being around all the books.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
the entire management team at my store needs to be changed. they are negative towards guests and towards us employees
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See the before mentioned comments about building relationships with our customers and employees. Don't be like gamestop.
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Better management, a new Gm
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The manager acts like a child
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It's an uncomfortable environment. They need to fire or force my manager to retire/quit.
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What do you like best about your company?
working with books and music
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Hours, raises positive encouragement less corporate culture more carrots and less sticks, new dm
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