Too many Sales Associates
I work in sales, and it's not entirely commission-based, but if you do hit commission you usually get more money.
Now our store is an area where in order to hit commission you pretty much have to have a really good week for it to happen.
I want to stress here that we do not hit commission on every single sale. We only hit commission if our total sales reach out to a certain amount.
I work in an area that does not get a ton of customers.
I have kept track of how our store has been doing monthly in terms of total sales and the truth is only two people on average would be able to hit commission and that's only if they got all of the sales.
The problem is for some reason we have six people doing sales, and two of them are not even supposed to be doing sales anyway. The manager and assistant manager do not get any money off of sales commissions.
One of the managers understands this and usually does try to not sell anything out of his name so his sales are pretty low. 156
The other manager however constantly puts stuff out in his name.
As a result we have six people trying to make sales when the cap for hitting commission is at a point where only two people would actually be able to hit commission and that's again only if those two people were the only ones making any sales at all.
Even if you cut out the managers putting sales out in their name when they are not supposed to especially the one manager who keeps doing it even though he's been told not to multiple times we still have four people who for the most part are trying to hit their commission status.
Of course you can't say anything to the company about either because businesses love doing this weird thing where they pit their employees against each other in some weird competition.
"Oh you didn't hit commission, that just means you need to try harder!'
No, I didn't hit commission because I am one of a few people in here and we don't have enough customers coming in for everyone to hit commission. Either one of us is going to hit it while no one else does, or none of us at all are going to hit it.
I guess the only thing that makes this less troublesome than it could be is the fact that I work enough hours for my base pay to be enough to live on. That is the one thing I'm happy with. I do have enough hours to where I can still get my bills paid off. 156