LAMPS PLUS reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Dennis Swanson

30% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

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2.0
Apr 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Set Mon-Thurs 4AM-2:30PM schedule. 2. All receiving co-workers and certain co-workers from other departments.

Cons

1. Pay was horrible. They loved to dangle the carrot when it came to yearly reviews by only giving you about a 60 cent raise no matter how good your review was. The math did not math when it came to your score and the raise you earned. 2. The receiving department is treated like the grunts of the warehouse even though receiving is the most physically demanding job in the whole building. If receiving was slow we'd be sent to help other departments, if we were busy and other departments were slow they'd send majority of their people home. 3. Lack of communication amongst the whole building, all departments were definitely not on the same page. Often had to ask people from other departments "what was your meeting about?" only to be informed of a new policy or SOP that apparently applies to the whole building even though there was no meeting for receiving. 4. Nepotism and favoritism, there are quite a bit of pairs (or groups) of relatives that work there which is not a problem. But, ironically the one's related to a person in a position of power were treated very differently. 5. Bonuses. When they weren't increasing the standard you had to make per hour or creating new policies to slow you down, your numbers were definitely being manipulated by management. Very, very weird dynamic of gaslighting where they would hound everyone about making bonus, get on you if you didn't make your bonus, yet through their actions couldn't have made it any clearer that they didn't want to give you a bonus at all. 5. Most of management from top to bottom seemed like they do not have any prior warehouse experience or management experience at all. From not knowing how to talk to people, to getting way too comfortable in their positions, to making decisions that really make you wanna scratch your head. It is sad at the amount of company money I saw wasted while I worked there. 6. "We are listening" meetings. Ironic name considering the majority of the meeting was leadership carefully shooting down any advice or feedback given. And often employees who had a lot of feedback would never be selected to attend again while the one's who didn't say much would always somehow get randomly selected. 7. No chance of career growth, at least in Spring 2025 on the West Coast, they are actively downgrading and expecting employees to do a lot more with no increase in pay. Very unethical company, from what I've witnessed to stories I've heard from fellow former employees which I'll leave at that so as not to put their business out there.

2.0
Mar 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I have some good memories working at the store. it was a small team so some of my co-workers were like my second family. i got along with my store managers and my stockroom supervisor as well as my co-workers. good manager and supervisor, fun co-workers, nice location. our store manager wasn't as bad as some people mad her out to be and she really tried to make the job fun, amid her mistakes.

Cons

they all about the money and not the people. An employee sexually assulted one of the female coworkers and our manager did nothing about it. The sales agents would constantly complain everytime a customer walked in the door, then complain about not making any money. I wear glasses and i was called blind, stupid and dumb when i first started. at least in my store, you were expected to take on more work and not get compensated for it. at the end of my time here, i was doing enough work for someone with a $24/hr salary but still stuck at $17/hr. management all around is not open to new ideas to make life a little easier on the stockroom staff. our assistant manager called out with covid and then never came back. if you had to work here try to get a position at chandler or Peoria. Lamps Plus has a no-discrimination policy, but our it is rumored that our manager wouldn't hire certain people because of their hairstyle or tattoos, even though we desperately needed more hands. people only had a work/life balance because it became a thing to call in sick if one of us didn't want to deal with customers or our manager. Technology and practices are so outdated, it's a disgrace

2.0
Mar 6, 2025

Instability

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers were nice when they actually stayed.

Cons

I had 6 different store managers over the span of 6 years. Was stretched to do three people position for one position pay. Needed train every person that was hired which also took up my commission sales time. Management has you do thing they aren’t willing to do themseleves. ie take down a 100+ pound chandelier off the ceiling on a 8 foot ladder.

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