Beware of Wage Theft - Production Technician Trek Bicycle Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Above average compensation in retail. Nice products with deep discounts. Lots of surprise pizza parties!

Cons

Trek loves wage theft. Trek says to do whatever it takes to take care of the customer and deliver great hospitality. Service department is expected to turn repairs around in 24hrs or less with minimal staff and no overtime. Unpaid/unreported OT is a commonplace. Mandatory online training is also expected to be completed at home. Training videos and weekly video updates often make references to working off the clock, doing market research/secret shopping at competitors stores on your own time (because realistically you can’t leave work to go to a competitor and secret shop) with enough plausible deniability. When confronted about it/clarification on duties, are always told you should always get paid, but then use buzz words like be a team player and take care of the customer. Managers will hold back purchasing of supplies and/or tools because it comes out of their bonus. Also will not turn away repairs worth more than the bike because if it is slightly better than it came in, we did our job. When serious safety issues with customers bikes are brought up, I was told to shut up and do the work, if the customer gets hurt or dies it’s ok, we have insurance.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The people you work with are awesome. If you don't make some lifelong friends here, you're probably doing something wrong.

Cons

A few years ago, there was a change at TREK. It didn't happen quickly, but the culture started to change as the industry started to return to pre-covid business. Many of the people that helped shape TREK's amazing culture started to leave. Those that stayed endure brutal layoffs and report to people that now exist in their positions only for their own self-interest. You have to understand that TREK was not a company that many people used to leave. The direction of the company feels uncertain. Leadership seems to care little about retaining long term employees. They have let so many people go in different fields that a lot of day-to-day operations seem to slow down. Purchasing customers also led to a major shift in how the company runs today. It's much less calculated, and directional changes in how the company operates seem to happen with no notice and with poor planning. TREK will eventually find it's path forward, but it's doing so at a steep cost - the loss of dedicated and loyal employees that were there for the mission and future of the company. They brought integrity, (real) brutal honesty and vision for what the company could be. The only thing keeping TREK in it's market leading position today is simply how poorly the rest of the cycling industry is doing right now.

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