Frustrating - Retail Store Manager T-Mobile Employee Review

3.0
Feb 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits, Great time off perks, potential for new gadgets, fairly respected company from a customer's view. PTO fairly easy to schedule, but good luck having uninterrupted time.

Cons

Work/Life balance is a joke, labor hours are so lean that stores barely have adequate coverage, IT tools are a joke, with antiquated systems, piss poor implementations (and constant roll backs), lack of information and constant decisions made by folks that have never worked in a retail store. Lack of tools to do the basic jobs mean you're on the phone most of the day and dealing with constant system crashes. Senior Leadership comes in and does numerous "listening sessions" and writes down tons of feedback, but that rarely leads to results. Everything is a fire drill, no planning. Support partners are rare and far between, turn around time for answers can be days at times. Threats for not supporting a new initiative are vicious, only to have the attention turned elsewhere when someone realizes something else is more important, or its just stupid to pursue. Pay is substandard to positions at other companies, but perhaps the casual attitude makes up for it. HR backs employees more often than managers, seems more difficult to fire a problem employee than it is for HR to kneejerk on a speculative claim from a report. BlackBerry always within range, or else you're reamed for not getting some number in by an absurd time (10PM emails/text's for the night's numbers? screw off).

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5.0
Mar 22, 2016
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CEO approval
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Pros

Training and "green days" to work on training courses online, team activities for teambuilding, excellent benefits including up to a 10% yearly bonus (merit-based), tuition reimbursement, extra insurance options besides health insurance (pet insurance, free life insurance up to 1.5x yearly salary), stock purchase options and yearly stock award to each employee. One of my favorite benefits is job swaps - so long as your manager clears it, you can swap jobs with an employee from another related department for up to a couple months to gain insight and experience into what the other department does from day to day. I left my last company as it had become a bad environment, and after joining with T-Mobile I realized it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. There are very few days where I wake up not wanting to go to work, and I learn something new every day. When I come across a process I'm not familiar with, my teammates are more than happy to provide on-the-spot training, or schedule a time that works for both of us to do so. Above all, the managers set you up to succeed rather than to fail - they want you to do well, and do everything in their power to make sure you have the tools to do well.

Cons

There's some of the same political bs that any company has, but my team has two excellent managers that make work enjoyable. There are a couple personality issues within the team, as happens with any job, but overall everyone gets along. As far as training goes, there wasn't a whole ton initially (though I believe it's more due to the nature of the job - it's impossible to condense everything into a couple week training course).

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T-Mobile Response
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Thanks so much for taking the time to write this -- we love hearing how much you love coming to work! Your words were spot on when you said your team wants you to "do well". That's exactly what we want for all of our team members! The nature of our business is constantly changing and we know how important it is to provide good benefits and equip you with the training and development you need to be successful. We're glad you're taking full advantage of all of it. As we continue to grow and evolve, so will our training and tools. If you ever feel like you're not getting enough of what you need, though, talk it over with your manager and they'll help you get back on track. Thanks again for your feedback and your dedication to T-Mobile. -- T-Mobile Careers Team
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