Havertys Reviews

Too many cooks in the kitchen: I had to answer to three people in my department, plus requests from other departments, and everything was "priority". I only had one boss and nothing was filtered through that person. Management seemed out of touch with the morale of the department TERRIBLE communication between departments Most of upper management has been there 25+ years and not open to change/new ideas (although that wasn't the case in my department) Everything is reviewed by paper. Understandable for print, but not web. Not only is it wasteful but it's hard to meet deadlines when you're having to chase down stuff from people in other departments b/c they're out or not paying attention.

Management is not hired or promoted based on what but rather who they know. Old timers with knowledge and skills aren't appreciated and in fact encouraged not to share their thoughts and experiences from other company's. It's a commission based system but they stack the deck against you. Example. Protection bonus is paid on what you deliver with protection. I had a seventeen thousand dollar invoice deliver the next to last day of the month. My delivered percentage on protection would have exceeded their seven percent for a 30% pay rate on all delivered protection. However they will not pay you the protection bonus until the last item delivers. The warehouse could not deliver the clients chins cabinet top because it was damaged in THEIR distribution center. Guess what. This dropped me below 4% as they still counted the other merchandise they forced on my client. NO PROTECTION BONUS on a 70k delivered month. Did I also mention most of the merchandise they did deliver was scratched or damaged? On a seventeen thousand dollar sale?! Company doesn't care. Useless CEO who spouts corporate jibberish but honestly doesn't have any idea how day to day operation is for stores. Managers who couldn't sell themselves but pretend they can train others to. Just don't. I've worked for several furniture companies and after a year and a half with this one I wouldn't recommend a job with them to my worst enemy.