RadioShack reviews about "district manager"

Balance of work ratio to family time

Never before have I worked for a company so h*ll bent on destroying itself. I've worked for radioshack for over 6 years as of writing this, starting as part-timer to becoming a store manager and I can so without doubt that this company is horrendous in its treatment of its store managers. RadioShack promised its managers over and over and over again if they would stay with the company then they would give their managers pay increases for those who didn't receive pay increases they were guaranteed and not have their pay cut. But what happened after 2 years of promises instead was that the regular employees receive pay increases, they hired Nick Cannon as our chief creative officer and then they gave all the managers pay cuts. My pay went from $19.78 to $13.50 with no personal commission. RadioShack excuse for all the treatment they gave their managers was that we were the "owners of the business" so that means that the executive free rein to treat us like absolute dirt under the guise of personal business ownership they would have to store managers doing the jobs six other positions and then complain when we couldn't do everything ourselves. This is on top of forcing all the stores to run skeleton crews more often than not if you walked into the store there would only be one person in the store because most the time only had the budget for one to two employees with a manager. And even then you barely had the hours to support the people that you had in the store. Some of the time most part-timers have to get a second job just to support themselves, I even know managers who had to get second jobs just to support working for RadioShack. RadioShack refusal to pay their store employees wages even go so far as the market manager which is essentially the equivalent of a distinct manager for most other companies. my district manager for example is working a second job because Radio Shack doesn't pay him enough money to support living in his house me personally I'm still living with my mom because I can't afford to move out. I am a store manager who can't afford to move out of their parents house, because radioshack won't give their store employees a livable wage. And that's just the way the pay is so bad, this isn't even talking about the completely unreal expectations that regional directors expect stores to make on a weekly basis. We have a private headphone brand called incredible ones and RadioShack is so desperate to sell these God forsaken headphones this is what a manager can expect to go through on a weekly basis. Twice a day your market manager will call you to ask how many headphones your store has sold. And this is every single day if you haven't sold any headphones at the end of the week then the regional director will send you an e-mail embarrassing you in front of the entire region because he will cc the entire region to the email about how you need to do a better job selling headphones. You'll also get called out on during the regional conference calls which he will also proceed to embarrass you while on the call with every other store in your region and you're also placed on probation, once your on probation if you go a second month without selling NC1's headphone you're fired for not meeting standards, mind you this is even if your store has a net income for the month. From all the issues I've seen and gone through over the years with this company I could literally write a book on all of the issues that are wrong with this company and how even with being bought out by General Wireless they kept the same exact people who drove the company into bankruptcy in the first place. And this partnership with Sprint is not helping them. Don't ever become a manager for RadioShack even if you think it's going to give you job experience don't do it. your talents are literally better suited to any other business.

I worked here before they were bought by General wireless, and stayed for over a year after that transition. The commission rates used to be high, then they went lower... until General wireless took over and we ended up at 1% commission on store brand merchandise only, and since Sprint moved in and took over the phone sales, I made less than 40$ commission a month. The management really did not care and it showed, we did not have enough employees and they kept asking us to sell more and more stuff. When General Wireless came in, we thought that it might get better, but nothing really changed. I had so much work to do, as my manager didn't do his job, so I pretty much had to do everything for him... When this grew too stressful, I started speaking to him tactfully. When this did not work, I pleaded for help, and surprisingly, he was rather nasty to me. I brought this up to upper management, and all they did was tell me that while they knew about the problem, they didn't know who in the store was covering for him. The upper manager said that he should give me a promotion, but instead he is going to wait to catch my boss slipping before he actually did anything about it. Over 6 months later... I had all I could take, and got another job.This is a horrible company to work for, and they will not care about you. They treat management poorly, and I am ashamed to say that I witnessed my manager being berated several times by the district manager in an extremely unprofessional manner. Do not work for this company if you value your well-being. You'll be much better off working anywhere else. Don't even get me started on the products because they are cheaply made and are priced several times over what they should be. You can get this stuff online for $2 so no one is going to pay $20 for the same exact cable. That's why the profits are going down the tube, RadioShack is focusing on the wrong products and they expect you to sell them and they will cut your hours when you can't.

I really enjoyed my time with Radio Shack and wish the company still existed in a brick and mortar format.

Salary is absolutely horrible for most managers. Store managers are expected to work 55-60 hours a week. At smaller stores, managers wind up making about 10 bucks an hour. Bonuses amount to 200-300 bucks a month.. if you qualify for them. Most don't. Manager pay for larger stores isn't quite that bad... up to 60-70K.. but there are few stores that large and those managers tend to hang around. Salaries, bonuses, and commissions of managers and sales associates have fallen dramatically over the years. As a sales associate back in the late early 00's, I was making 35-45K. In my last year as a Senior store manager, I was making 45K when I reached 65k at one point. And I kept working those 60 hour weeks. As a whole, upper management and district/regional managers are either incompetent or simply running scared. They don't know what to do with this company and what kind of direction to give it. They pay more attention to the position of a stapler in the desk than the really important parts of the bussiness. I'm talking about 572 and the rest of the region. Sales plan numbers often make no sense, and it's hard to see very good managers struggling to make unrealistic numbers.

Cycle through district managers so fast, you dont have many peopel from corporate to speak to.

-Company plans change way too often (General desired approach to customers, sale focus, store design changed often, etc) -Minimum pay plus some commission (very low). -Everything was very unstable through my experience, with 3 different District Managers, and 4 different Store Managers in only 3 years of working there.

The salary & commission rate, the expensive medical benefits that you have to have by law, the metrics required or you're fired attitude, the visits from loss prevention.

Management had a lot of turnover. Employees leaving the job back and forth. Some managers only cared about numbers more than the development of the Employees. Feels like company training was just basic scripted session the district manager is forced to do.