Upper management = Grown up Frat boys - Management 5.11 Employee Review

1.0
Sep 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big discount though mark-up is huge so it's less impressive. Plenty of payroll with no concern how it is used.

Cons

Upper management has no clue what retail is or what they want to be in it. Won't give a military or LE discount because "that's our core customer and they are going to buy it no matter the price". Quote from multiple upper management employees. No plan-o-grams, limited direction, focus on numbers on a weekly basis since there's no trend to compare too. Retail division is 100% focused on opening stores without being able to actually run them.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Compared to my prior employer, the workload is much reduced while the pay is a substantial increase. I feel that store and District leadership is a lot more willing to back you up compared to Prior employers I've had, and there is a good amount of freedom to be had. The company is also expanding so the opportunity for growth is also higher than with other Industries right now.

Cons

The company seems to be a bit schizophrenic at the moment when it comes to certain things and operations are suffering to a degree because of it.

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