HHGregg Flanking PC Richards

"OVERALL (and I stress the word "overall"), they are a descent company to work for." - Though I am sure the poster made a simple unintended grammatical mistake in his post, he leans more to the truth then he knows. I would characterize working for HHGregg as a descent company allright.. a slow descent into poverty.  There are a few heavy hitters who will do well, but for most, it's a chew you up and spit you out company.  Even the heavy hitters I know make far less then they did 10 years ago, because the wages and commissions are steadily cut every few years.

"If you are atleast a mediocre salesperson, you will pay your bills without much problem if you live conservatively." - Conservatively here means.. living in an RV in the parking lot.

"If you are an above average salesperson, you can be comfortable in life." - Until you have a wife or child, house or car, or any other substantial obligation.

"There are really no physical demands, no loading or lifting, no plan-o-graming or busy work of any real kind, just pure selling (which is good because it is a straight commission job)." - This is true unless you feel standing in one spot most of the day for 45 hours a week is a physical demand, because sitting is considered asking to be given more work.  And by work I mean custodial dusting of items with linty dust distributing rags, sweeping, general cleaning, stacking goods on shelves, hooking up electronics, planogramming, or whatever job de jour needs done as it is considered easier to work commission salespeople.. who are not paid an hourly wage, than it is to hire hourly employees for this task.  Their motto is "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean."

"Best of all, unless a sales manager goes against the grain, there is no "up" system!" - There is almost always an up system.. they call it the point, and one basically stands at the front of the store, like a Walmart greeter (which does annoy most customers), and hopes that one of these folks needs something from their department.  Since only one is allowed, everyone else must fall in line behind this person awaiting their turn.  However, you are not to congregate, so you have to remember what order you and the other salespeople are in, and figure out somewhere else to stand waiting in the department.  Moreover, there are almost always more salespeople than customers in the building, which there is almost always someone waiting at the point waiting to greet a customer.. which also means there is almost always a line of salespeople waiting to greet customers.. which means there is almost always an picking order, which by my definition, is an "up" system.  Also, since technically, there is no leaving a customer, no matter how trivial their needs may be, it is almost impossible to pick up two customers, as your buddies at the door have already greeted them and thus "claimed them" and will be following behind where ever they go.

"You also work a straight schedule... same schedule EVERY week and the same two days off every week. Lots and lots of carrots; very few sticks!" - Yeah, sorry buddy, not anymore, this is one of the cascading chains of benefits the company has chosen to take away.

"On the other side, and the worst and really only bad part of working at hh is the excrutiatingly long hours. And I do mean EXCRUTIATING! It's bad enough you work every Saturday and get only one Sunday off per month, but you have to attend a training day once a month, on your day off by the way, WITHOUT PAY. You also have to work any special sales they have and if that sale is on your day off, you DO NOT get another off later that week, or ever. Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, you work six days a week and they are all 10-12 hour days." - Yea, this is all true.  Oh, and I forgot, you will have to pay for your own mandatory uniforms.

Sounds like some form of slavery to me ... and people actually LIKE to work there for reasonable periods of time ???   Sounds like a criteria for working there might just be a full lobotomy ... and if so, do they make YOU pay for it ???

Hell, years ago I threatened to leave a job because they wouldn't reimburse me for time away from home on a business trip which took ten (10) days a month where they refused to left me come home on the weekend ... I actually LOST $$$ because I wasn't working my part-time job !!!    They made some accommodations in consideration of my point ... I eventually left anyway because the travel was wearin' me out !!!

 well put oldschool