How flexible is your schedule working at Mattress Firm?

good pay for the amount of work done

no flexible hours or work life balance

Decent pay during holiday sales

Long hours, no consideration regarding travel time for sales staff. They send you to locations an hour away when there are stores closer to home. Constant turnovers so you end up doing many open to closes up to 12 hours a day. Too many unnecessary processes for a simple sale ie: mandatory tablet with several questions for customer, 7, 30, 90 day followups, Podium, emails, posting each of your sales, 4-5 hour training sessions several times a year, mission control duties, virtual campus trainings all this with a manager breathing down your back. They send in secret shoppers to make sure you follow all the selling rules and grade you accordingly. Now they put up cameras to track the traffic flow. Lots of stress and duties for selling a mattress!

Commission based and flexible schedule

The industry is struggling as a whole

Decent pay Work indoors Water cooler

Many ineffective managers Long hours Co workers lack integrity Careless delivery drivers Stingy customers

Awesome managers Great pay Flexible schedule

The benefits are not the best

Good Benifits as soon as you begin Flexible schedule

Constant changes in the company

Pay (in the Bay Area at least) is fairly decent and uncapped commissions are nice. Ability to have a flexible schedule for the most part.

You’ll work every single weekend and every holiday. Holidays often have extended 12 hour shifts. Not a great job if you have a family or want to do anything outside of work.

Flexible hours outside of select holidays Decent benefits Lots of free time during the day Competitive pay for the amount of work

The money you make is heavily dependent on which store you work at They over promise and under deliver on most things Micromanagement Poor communication Boredom

Money is good. Def one of the easiest jobs for the most money.

Because you are 100% commission they have you working from 10-12 hours a day, often times taking your days off away and calling it mandatory do to a sale which by the way is always going on at a mattress store. They don’t care about the amount of hours because they do not have to pay us hourly. They don’t even let you take a lunch break outside of the store. After so many years it starts to feel like a prison. I could go a whole week or more in a store at 10-12 hours and make $0 oh and if we have a hurricane or something we still get sent to work to await people that live on the other side of the country to let us know if we can go home or not.

learn sales skills for other jobs

work life balance and pay stucture