The Buckle reviews

The main thing that bugged me about working here is that you do not make the income they say. I was working a job making 11.50 an hour. When I was being interviewed here, the Manager said that I can easily make 12/hr which is a hourly pay plus commission. The only thing they failed to mention is you need to, on AVERAGE, sell over $1600 in product every 8 hour shift you work. Retails have their slow days in the weekdays so you know you are not making those numbers. Come my first paycheck, after having some great sale dates where I sold more then $2000 in product and averaging highest with my co-workers, my pay was just 7 cents above mininum wage. I left because they lied about the income I would make... You MUST average 1600 or higher on an 8 hour shift to break double digits, just work the math out for yourself! Also remember, you will be working on some hours where you are strictly helping doing inventory and they might pull you back off the floor too. So you will not always be on the sale floor. About 1/3 of your time could be spent in the back or on off hours and these negatively impact your sales as well.

Management favoritism. Lack of reviews. Inconsistent pay rates. Pay is not necessarily based on performance, degrees, or seniority. You are rewarded only if you keep progressing, rather than doing really well at the level you are at while still contributing to the team. Constant weeding out of people/turnover. Working really hard for little pay. Immature, vindictive and catty co-workers that aren't career minded, very much like high school popularity contest. Cannot make a living as a single person without being in management. Hard to get schedule accommodations, time off. Very aggressive sales goals and tactics. Work/life balance is non existent. Sucks the life out of you. Hard to be independently creative, out of the box. Top down company. Burn-out is highly likely.