gone but not for gotten - werkgeversreview Director bij Tweeter Newco

Pros are a little of this and less of that

Cons are a lot of that, not much of this

A newly resturctured company has it going in the right direction. The pay scale was very competitive and maintained a commission based sales floor when other competitors switched to hourly. They enacted a draw based compensation system which, was not favored by many but was a step in the right direction to increase productivity.

In the 5 years that I worked their, the company kept free-falling toward bankruptcy. Upper management had a hard time figuring out how to fix a sinking ship. They blamed a lot of the downfalls on the sales staff, however their constant restructuring of the pay scale, and cutbacks created a less than homely atmosphere. This coupled with an extremely high turnover rate feathered the consumers trust in their neighborhood tweeter sales counselor. For a long time the sales staff was the bread and butter of the company, with individual sales people being the go-to guy throughout every generation of the tech phase. however, this was truly undone by managements failure to retain top sales earners.