Bed Bath N' Table Reviews

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Talking on the phone and requesting stock from other stores was often unpleasant.

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- competitive and unrealistic budgets lead to staff members unscrupulously fighting over sales
- management communication is really bad: my boss was basically a bully. You either did everything her way or get out, no room for own individuality in styling and selling

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The Toxic Upper Management and the Occasional Sociopathic Co-Worker.

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Being thrown in postions with little training and having to teach yourself. Having daily budgets that are almost impossible to reach. Regional Managers are snarley and rude.

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Lack of vision for staff no support they belittle you and treat u like a number to just churn out sales

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- Unhealthy kpi system which lead to staff fighting for sales to the point where staff would race to the counter for customers holding $$ items. Staff who linger around the POS system while achieving not much else will generally be able to meet their targets by literally letting the sales come to them. The budgets aren’t considerate of staff being assigned other jobs ie doing stock versus being on the floor. If you’re performing poorly in terms of kpis, then expect very minimal shifts in the future.
- Very old in their ways. Unsure why it is necessary to call the RM with data and sales figures everyday when this information should be quite easily accessible from HQ.
- Nonexistent company culture.
- It is hard to see hard working and intelligent fellow staff members being treated with little respect. The store only hired casuals, which says a lot about how they like their staff - disposable.

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Really physical work , which I don't mind but feels like we work in a warehouse almost daily vm changes and no thanks for any hard work , management only see what we haven't done for the day . On top of trying to reach our kpi s for the week and making budget I find this company very stress ful and a very thankless job . We are told by head office that on the weekend we must be customer focused ( which is great ) but management have us changing windows and cleaning storerooms , then when management say they have done all the work !!! So glad I've left this company 😃

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Terrible management with unrealistic KPI's. They expect you to work until exhaustion for no reward or incentive. Your shifts are completely based on your performance, so you will be competing with other staff members which made the job horrible and hostile. The way management treats staff is terrible, and they seem to think that dictator style managing is the way to go. So glad I left, wouldn't recommend to anyone.

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Management is shocking, and you will never receive praise for anything you do, if you love constant negativity, this place is the place for you!

Regional management is basically just bullying and everyone gets the shakes when the regional is in store.

Training was promised to me, but none was received and managers were constantly surprised when I had to ask how to do things, as if it was my fault.

They are very focused on individual sales, which makes other staff members try and steal sales and sets a really bad vibe for the stores.

I LOVE working in retail, but Bed Bath N Table showed me the bad side of retail and what happens if you know nothing about teamwork and positive reinforcement.

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- Store level staff were treated with little respect and an air of distrust from regional manager at the time (Melbourne).
- Individual team member sales targets had potential to cause unhealthy competitiveness within store team (luckily my team decided to work together instead & always made store budgets as a result).
- Damaged goods were destroyed instead of being recycled and/or donated anonymously (without tags or branding) to charities.
- No tangible incentives for making budget.