IT Dude - IT Dude Boombah Employee Review

Great management, cool products, great work life balance

Travel required for many sales events

When I started working at Boombah it had a fun and care-free atmosphere. All of my coworkers were great. Customer traffic was slow or moderate and it made for a really easy, entry-level job where you could connect with customers and enjoy going to work every day.

After a few months, the owner hired a couple of regional managers who had no retail experience. They made tons of changes that made everything more difficult for the employees - such as instituting one item of each size on the shelf and having the back storage rooms become deathtraps of overflowing merchandise. The managers bombarded customers with questions and used overly pushy sales tactics for casual shoppers. The company rarely ever promoted from within even when it was well-deserved. When they did offer promotions, they offered less money to more experienced employees than to those with little to no experience. When store managers and sales associates started to quit, they expected the remaining sales associates to train the new managers and to perform keyholder duties without any increase in pay. The upper level managers were even overheard discussing how to "clean house"/make all of the old employees quit so they could start fresh with newly staffed stores. I don't think those regional managers are still with the company, however, during the year-or-so they were employed at Boombah, nearly all of the other sales associates left.