hard work, lots of hours, steady paycheck, wonderful learning experience - Manager Trainee 84 Lumber Employee Review

5.0
16 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

They allow you to gain experience by learning from first hand experience. They allow you the freedom to make decisions that no other company would let their entry level employees make. They still manage to protect their employees from any back lash and have a system in place to prevent most bad decisions from getting executed. There is the possibility of pulling in over a million dollars a year with this company if you have what it takes to be successful. You have to put time and work in first. It will not happen quickly.

Cons

extremely physically demanding, long hours and non-competitive compensation for entry level employees. Normally not even living wage compensation. They exaggerated about how much The average person in my position could make a year. It will certainly not be 34,000$ my first year. Also the POS system and the system in place for doing basically anything you can do at work is 25 years old. They need a user friendly system to stay competitive. Not the same system I used to play the original Oregon trail on with a B floppy drive.

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Cons

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84 Lumber Response
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Thank you for taking the time to review 84 Lumber. We are happy to hear that you have had a great experience with the company and we appreciate your feedback on work / life balance.
4.0
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Good benefits, pay is decent. If you work from home FT as a Manager , you can also run your own business while on the clock get paid for it. Who wouldn't want to work there.

Cons

You can work your butt off, put in more hours than you should and get no respect in return.

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84 Lumber Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to write a review. We take all associate feedback seriously, and we'd like to address the concerns you mentioned in your review. Our HR team has an open-door policy to listen to and answer associates’ questions, complaints, suggestions, and challenges. Please contact us at hr@84lumber.com to discuss further so that we may improve our working environment in the future.
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