Slowly Sucking My Will To Live - Merchandise Coordinator HomeGoods Employee Review

-Extremely low pay -Work you to death -Poor communication skills from management. Perhaps if the store has extended their hours, management might want to make sure their employees are aware of this-hello? -Corporate is so afraid of negative comments from customers that they bend over backwards for them while throwing their employees under the bus and then they back up and run over us again -Corporate is so afraid of the employees talking about unions that we aren't allowed to have reading material-magazines-in the break room as we might be hiding union propaganda inside -Never have enough workers on duty to properly run the store but when we complain we are told they weren't given enough hours for payroll. Yet most days we will have all 3 managers at the store sitting in the office doing what??? -Unrealistic guidelines and policies. Voids are to be avoided like the plague. Doesn't matter if it was the customer's fault or if they changed their mind. You will bring down the wrath of the store gods if your voids are over whatever stupid percentage they deem unacceptable -Expecting merchandise coordinators to "own" the sales for their departments. I can't help if sales are down in my department from last year as I have NO control over someone purchasing anything. But to the managers/DM this is an excuse as they think we have some invisible control over people's wallets and that rearranging a feature or endcap will magically make the crappy items we sell fly off the shelves -Cheaply made and poorly constructed furniture is sold too often. For every Lane or Broyhill, we carry 10 pieces of MDF crap -Only you and McDonald's give their employees info on low income programs that the employees probably qualify for because you pay them so LITTLE -Instead of making us BEG customers for charity donations, donate a per cent of your profits from 1 days sales like Target. Lord knows you earn enough profit off our backs -=-