Good if you stay at an associate level - District Sales Manager Russell Cellular Employee Review

1.0
Jan 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Employee discounts, company car, benefits

Cons

over worked, high demand from leaders who only sit at a desk and have no idea on what is actually going on. LIES, and more LIES from regional managers. Threaten to fire you if sales are not at 100% of target, while associates only have to reach 80% of target. Employee relations in a joke, I submitted several complaints with proof, nothing was ever corrected.

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Russell Cellular Response
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Hello - thank you for your review. We appreciate your feedback at this time. We are troubled to hear about some of the concerns you voiced while employed as a DSM for our company. At Russell Cellular, we strive to provide the best employee experience we can within our industry. We would really like to know more about the 'Lies' comment about Regional Managers. If you felt like the Employee Services Department did not assist you adequately with your issues, we do have multiple other avenues like anonymous hotlines, experience / suggestion emails, etc. As a sales retail company, setting sales targets and passing goals is the name of our business. Our Sales OPS Department works diligently every day to ensure our sales leaders have the correct and proper training to be able to more effectively train their subordinates below them as well as trying to further grow their career with our company. Our company did make several changes to our Sales Performance policy to try and level the playing field and make hitting certain targets more attainable for all employees. Again, we are sorry that this did not work out for you. We thank you again for your feedback.

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