Ehhh - Advanced Customer Care Crate and Barrel Employee Review

2.0
30 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working from home is the biggest plus. The job is relatively easy once you have an understanding of everything.

Cons

Obviously the customers can be annoying and very rude. My supervisor has changed many many many times in my 3 years. Right as I start to feel comfortable, my supervisor would change again. I have lost a lot of respect for crate and barrel as a company. The product quality has gone wayyyy down and customers have noticed this. But this thing that really lost my respect is laying off half of your associates and supervisors in the customer service center and outsourcing them. There was a level 1 customer service and level 2 customer service. Level 1 dealt mostly with housewares. Level 2 dealt with more furniture issues. They have decided to lay off every single level 1 associate located in the United States. Every single one. They replaced these associates with SSG associates from Panama, Mexico and Jamaica. The SSG associates are known to cause more problems and customer dissatisfaction. They have outsourced to save a buck and I have a feeling it is going to cost them in the end. I like to have pride in the work I do and who I work for. I definitely do not feel that way anymore after what they did.

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1.0
29 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only saving grace is the people I've worked with . Other than that I'd leave a negative star if I could.

Cons

The CEO Janet Hayes has taken away additional employee discounts . At a certain time of the year we used to get an additional 15% off on top of our regular discounts. GONE! If an in store customer would like to have an item that ships directly from the vendor we offer free shipping . If an employee would like to do the same not only do we have to pay for shipping but our discounts can no longer be applied . How low can you go? What a great way to motivate the employees and show us all that we are just numbers and you could care less about us . This company doesn't care about it's workers and I wouldn't tell someone I don't like to work there. Every location is experiencing high turnover as management is typically incompetent and focuses on all the wrong things. Training is laughable and most designers are thrown to the wolves with high expectations after a few videos . You can not make as much as advertised so don't waste your time. Most don't stick around more than 3-6 months . You have to have open availability and they don't care if you go to church or need family time . There will be no work life balance . Constant updates are always required . What are you selling ? What are your future sales ? How many cards have you opened or how many emails can you capture? How many in home visits have you made ? Speaking of which did you know they send women to in home visits by themselves without vetting clients in the store first ? Another huge potential lawsuit on the horizon.

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