Your observations and your judgments of them sound clear and intelligent.
Tina
Well,
> I am back from my 2 days of Coldwater Creek training. They have 6 full time
> employees and the rest are all part-time.(All of the sales people are > parttime). >
> While, in many ways their philosophy is wonderful and they are a reputable
> organization, I'm pretty sure their plan is to staff their stores with women
> who are working so they can get the 40% discount. Then, in fact, they will
> pay these people nothing or next to nothing because the employees will spend
> their paychecks on merchandise, and the company breaks even with those
> sales. Most of the employees have other jobs, some are full time jobs and
> they only want 10 hours per week. Some people even said, "as long as I make
> enough working to at least pay for my purchases, I'm fine."
>
> If I were a single person who was willing to move as they opened up stores
> in other locations (their goal is to expand into retail stores in a big
> way), I could probably go pretty far with them, but the sales role is not
> one of those postitions where there is much room for acheivement. If you do
> well in sales, you get a $50 certificate of merchandise!! They called this
> a raise. So, I love a lot of the company's practices and their commitment
> to customer service, but I am upset at the lack of will to spread that
> wealth around. I'm looking at it as it will be a good expereince, and may
> open some doors which are, as yet, unseen to me.
> The training was excellent and it is a very nice group of people; about 30
> women. I am just rather disappointed that there is not more room for money
> making opportunities as a sales associate.
>
> Hope you all had a great weekend. I had to mark all read , I mean 782
> posts!! Please let me know if I missed anything important.
>
> KathyH
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