Unfair Pay for Assistant Manager at Kay Jewelers - Assistant Manager Signet Jewelers Employee Review

2.0
Nov 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The reasons to work for this company are the experiences you are able to share with customers. Most of the time happy occassions. Witnessing people who are in love, and chosing jewelry that fits their style. Working with beautiful merchandise. Feeling proud to work in a professional enviornment. And they have great health benefits.

Cons

Working long hard hours. Never having weekends off. Never enjoing the holidays, (because you are always working )Having the job title of a assistant manager and training new employees who make just as much as you or more. Being underpaid, and not able to talk with anyone without getting in trouble about your concerns with it. Feeling brainwashed that you make "good money" Not making any commision as promised. They told me in my interview---don't worry about your hourly--commision is what its all about....yea right....

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Cons

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Pros

Great place to learn how to become a better jeweler and grow your skills, if you are in an environment that takes full advantage of what the company provides. The benefits are also extremely generous with PTO and depending on the work environment, your schedule can be very flexible. Also being a jeweler means you are in a separate department from the sales side of the company and they have no authority over you, and your job as a jeweler isn't impacted by the sales side, you could be working inside a Jared, but it doesn't matter if the salesperson couldn't make the sale, and the money charged between the Service Center and the store is all just a number for tracking margin, so it's really nice being a jeweler that doesn't need to worry about sales or have a salesperson lord over you. It's very different than a mom and pop jeweler job.

Cons

Depending on the shop/manager your growth can be stagnanted. The company pushes for number of units and that's created a mentality of a focus for lesser quality workmanship to pass through QC. The store side salespeople don't get trained well on their side and will lean on the service center side to do the technical things for them. The sales staff knowledge on jewelry can be next to nothing because it's not a requirement for them, so that adds a lot of friction between jeweler and sales staff.

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