Can�t say enough about the horrible treatment I was given as a female employee at Future Shop in Sault ste Marie.

The management team either makes fun of you or they ignore you all together. The complete favoritism of the male staff by the male management team is ridicules. The female cashier�s gossip and play on their iPhone�s rather than help a customer. If you are an attractive girl...

The company offers an attractive variety of benefits . However management sucks they go by favoritism, they only care about numbers And they like bragging about their selling not all managers but most. Management do not encourage criticism actually your better not to speak your mind . Even when the company provides a good evaluation systems managers won't hesitate to find a way to put you down...

I worked at Future Shop for two years, you know what they gave me? .50 cent raise, .25 cent per year. Nice one Future Shop. The management was horrible. My CSR boss gave favoritism, the hours were dreadful. I have no idea if it were the specific store I worked in, or the whole company. I was part time and they would give me 3 hours a week. Or if I were lucky, 3.15 or 3.45, so generous right?...

I worked for Future Shop after reading lots of negative feedbacks. I think it really depends on different locations and management. I worked at a store that had very hard working managers, especially the store manager. He would work 12 hour days and worked harder than ANYONE. The management always took the time to talk to each employee and if you had to talk to them, they were there. They helped...

If Future Shop actually lived up to their values, this would be a first class company. Sadly, the negative atmosphere and hypocracy trickles down. They encourage you to hold your peers and managers accountable to living the values and when they are called out on you are given the old line, "Do as I say, not as I do." When I quit my store, it received one of the lowest employee satisfaction rating...

this is a bs company, bad management, management only care about themselves, they don't care about the employee, but they want us to fight for the company.....what a joke...

I LOVED working for Future Shop. Serious. It is an amazing company to work for. If you like working with people and like technology you couldn't ask for a cooler job. The team I worked with were caring and would do anything for you. I know each store is different, management and other employees matter alot. But those who leave are usually the negative, lazy ones. Work hard, get along with people...

There are many great companies out there. After working for many years with this "company" I found that there is no future in futureshop.

I've worked for the company for almost 1.5 years part time (full time in the summer and winter).

I felt that management put too much sales pressure on all employees, really want us to drive the psp,prp, pep and freak out when somebody doesn't buy it. In my particular store favoritism was a huge thing, if they didn't like somebody they would cut their hours from 34 hours to 4 hours a week until...

Overall, a poor place to work. There is too much pressure for too little reward. Management is disorganized.

I worked at FS in Newfoundland once upon a time. Was brought into the organization and introduced as a potential team lead-type. They fired me after 2 months, and when I asked for a reason they simply said because it's within the probationary period they didn't have to give one. I kept asking because it made no sense to me, but they would never provide a reason. I was always on time, neat and...

Forget about the earnings and job advancement aspect of this company. We have to focus on the fundamentals.

The bottom line is this company sells electronic goods/gadgets.

From the get-go (irregardless of economic times) the people selling in these big box stores (especially Future Shop) know next to nothing about the true essence of what they are selling.

All they care about is...

Worked for this company full time for 4 years. I was hired at the end of the glory days. As a top performer, and after the economic downturn with a pay structure change, the job went from being stress-less fun to something I had a hard time getting myself out of bed for.

The economy and competing online retailers made the company focus on services they assumed everybody needed. Example:...

Worked for this employer after high school completed. Very stressful job, expectations for results and very little support to achieve them. Personally was responsible for millions of dollars in sales revenue for this company- however after 7 years and gradual economic decline and a non-negotiated payscale change incomes drastically were reduced. Quality of life declined dramatically- If you...

Hr department is a joke

Use this job as a stepping stone to better jobs. It is not a career company buy its easy to be hired as seasonal. I was there less than a year and used the time to work on my selling skills. Now I am working for my dream company with lots of room for advancement. At the beginning you will enjoy your time at FS until you realize how incompetent your managers are. Schedules were not posted until...

I have worked for FS for more than 2 years, and I can safely say, it was not worth it in the end.

The management are a joke, they make up the rules as they go and are on a power struggle, and will sell anyone to get to where they want to get to. Whatever happened to caring for your employees.

I -was- a vet PE for FS around 10 years. Probably one of the highest paid sales staff in my province. The company has gone from a fun positive work environment to a numbers based nightmare. I bled FS red, and at the end they treated me like I was nothing. Management is a joke, like mentioned, a bunch of uneducated kids. They pushed me for unrealistic targets micro managing me over 7 categories,...

I rated this company as I was once told to tell our customers while they were presented with a customer's satisfaction survey - Either give a 5 or a 0, since less than 5 is equal to 0. Unfortunatelly, there are no 0s in this site. In fact, it didn't even let me choose all 1s.

Why to work at a place where you get constant stress, to sell Service Plans that no one believes in, if you advance,...

Futureshop is one of the worst place I have worked. Job security is always up in the air. Management is constantly changing, from the lowest to the district levels. Money is horrible, and there is a constant pressure to force useless service plans. They expect you to drop your activitys outside of work (like sports) and never follow your availability. The only things that makes the job bearable...

Well, if you like being expected to take advantage of customers then this place is for you. I worked as a PE in "Home Office" for the better part of 2 years, and quit when the commission change came into effect. (...). Promotions were based upon your ability to get in with "the clique" of management and their douchebag sales patsies. After a long, involved, and highly profitable sale to an...

Depends on your management really, they make it or break it for you. The money is OK, some departments have more overhead than others, the best gig is cell shop, they make the most and get the greatest perks. all the other sales PE are swines, they will oversell you and not care at all. I hate to generalize but once you start working with slimeballs, eventually you become one to keep up with the...

you might make more honest money begging in the streets. this company has not made one single change for the best in the last 5 years. Not a single change for something better. Not a single strategy that made sense. Nothing.

I worked at FS (store #57) for almost 7 years. It was very stressful and was put under pressure by management to meet monthly sales targets. Management only care for the sales numbers and not for anyone or anything else. In the end, I got fired because I didn't meet my targets during my last 5 months. I took FS to courst and got a settlement that I can't disclose. Overall, I don't recommend FS...

Not a horrible company. However, sales associates use to make a respectable income. The company has reduced commission so significantly that it is now just another $10.25 job. You can go to Mcdonald's, Walmart or any other retail store and have much less pressure. Not worth the hassle.

The employees are basically pressured by management to sell items to customer and they will go as far as lying to the customers. Management is very disorganized, but I put the blame mostly on the company for not comprehending what customer service is all about. Harassing customers is definitely not an option. I resigned shortly after threats made by the managers.

The starting rate is a measly...

in recent years Future Shop has gone from a family/ work balance to work work work. I have been asked to work lots of overtime hours without pay. When questioned whether we would be paid the answer was just be glad you have a job. They wanted me to go to management and I refused as the managers generally work 6 days a week 10-12hr days and only get paid for 40. I am now looking to work for a...

Good place only if you want to be a seasonal employee. I started there in sales and was promoted to management. Was a successful manager for several years. Had to quit because of stress, disrespectful treatment, unreasonable requirements, and total confusion among management about what to do. Turnover in management is scary. Managers, from DSMs up to district and regional level fired on regular...

Well let's see... my supervisor was hopped up on cocaine as were some of the other techs...the general manager had a thing for young girls and kept all the seasonal girls who were under 17 after dismissing other seasonals who trained them. Discount wasn't as good as promised. I really don't think the managers knew what they were doing. high employee turnover. I'm talking about Langford, although...

one of the worst places to work.....people with good reviews about this place have probably had good management...otherwise future shop is simply a bad place to work at

I currently work at a futureshop. They want me to work full time hours in a department, that within our region at least, never does well. When I asked them if I would be receiving full time employee status, the said no. Apparently you have to make them x amount 3 months in a row in order for them to give you the benefits of a full time employee. They have no problem wanting you to work the hours...

I'm shocked to see so many negative comments on here. I have had nothing but great experiences working at Future Shop. Very few places will hire you with almost no related education and give you what this company is willing to.

*Great money

*Flexible hours

*Awesome benefits

*Awesome pension plan

*Perks ( Vender fairs, Trips, Dinners)

*Stock options

*Huge opportunity to move up.

I...

love futureshop so far, the best management i've ever had. All the guys in the department treat you like family, and the only want the best. I was provided with alot of tools to succeed.

Worst employer I've ever had. Their training of new csr's is none existent. They don't care about their employees and don't want to hear about any problems. They have a one track mind of only making sales and don't focus on customer service. I once had one manager make me work longer then an 8 hour day and I didn't get paid ot. Thankfully the company did end up firing him but not for that...

The management and workers in my store are great it's a very close group of people compared to other larger corporations I've worked for. The management knows everyone by name and are open to talk about any problems that you may have. However on the head office side of the coin there are still many policies and quirks that could be different.

Quality of management is poor.

If you are educated and want growth then stay away from this company, no offense to anyone else. What do I mean by this? Well, the corporate structure is that of only focusing on selling no matter what, so both training and values is thrown out the window. The environment is somewhat enjoyable if you are always on top of your game. But the discounts are pretty nice lol.

As far as my personal...

Reading these reviews are hilarious. It seems like almost everyone has the same complaints, and as a former FS Computer's PE. For background, I was a student and senior PE in my department and consistently performed in "the green", I am not just a disgruntled employee. I agree with all of the common issues raised by commenters here. For starters, the positive aspect of Futureshop for me was the...

If you are rude, obnoxious and love drama then this is the perfect place for you! You also have to learn things on your own because of lack of training. And if you ask for help from the managers they threaten to write you up!They are all a bunch of a#$holes!

Future shop is amazing I love it...cuz i make good money...but management for my store sucks!!! I hate the idea of sellin extended warranties to everyone!!! sure u do need an extended warranty for stuff thats like 1000$ or more!!!

I am a former employee from the Orangeville store. I had been with this company for over 5 years, and was recently terminated over a long lunch break with next to no explanation. It has been a month and still have not received any documentation as to the reasoning or the actual conduct of my dismissile. I used to love coming into work years ago, it was a fun atmosphere, lots of great people and...

This company is horrible to work for. I'm in merch and I've been threatened by managers, forced to do unsafe work, told I can't take breaks and forced to stay late for no pay with threats of shift cuts or dissmissal. My hours are random and inconsistant as I'll work full time hours one week and then 17 hours the next. I've had a promotion dangled in my face basically since my first day and I...

The only measure of success at Future Shop is how many extended warranties and setups do you sell. You can't really sell as many as they want without lying to customers.

The concept of "subsidy" aka minimum hourly wage and beating the subsidy is plain ridiculous. The other employers pay you base salary plus commission.

If you're hired as a part time employee you'll work full time hours and...

I worked for FS at the Headquarters in Burnaby in the Merchandising Group and it is the WORST job I've had by far. Where to start...

1. Most managers are old time sales people with no education and no degree (some didn't even finish high school). They can't give you any professional feedback to develop so you won't grow at all

2. The job is boring, repetitive and you don't learn anything at...

Never work for this company. The money is not that good no matter how good of a sales person you are, the management lacks. You die a bit every day you walk through the doors, you will never be proud to say you worked for FutureShop Newfoundland.

Working at future shop is the equivalent of getting shit on. The management team are a group of people who have no formal training expected to be leaders but in turn are very much the opposite. They lack the skills to communicate professionally with employees and instead intimidate them. They lack the comprehension to interpret numbers and loosely correlate these numbers to performance (ie....

Avoid this place at all costs!!!

i actually work for future shop and let me tell you that im unsatisfied. first girls got less stress , less job and got more chances .... a shame... the work load is based on willing to get involved .... and when times goes for the raise u get the b2 note that everyone gets...... and fonally geting converted to 25 cents wow......

Future shop sucks!!! Incompetent managers who are inexperienced and lack communications skills. There is constant harassment by management and by your fellow cowokers. And then there is the drama! Omg I have never seen so much drama in my life! It was like I was in high school again ! Shame on you Future Shop !

I have been an employee of Future Shop for five years working out of CHQ and let me tell you that i am like many just going through the motion until something better comes along. Upper management is unsupportive, doesnt care and frankly is an utter joke. Mr. T (for those that work here will know who i speak of) is one of the biggest idiots and it continues down from there. What is so...

Comission seems to always be going down. Some of the managers are incompetent but I also have had the pleasure of working for a manager who was actually great - what happened to him? He got demoted when we got a new general manager and the new manager wated to bring in his friends from the last store. Pretty sad.

Overall I am still working there because my co-workers are all really good. We get...

I worked for FS for 10 years. there are always going to be disgruntled former employees of any company. I'm not one of them. Yes they've rearranged their compensation for employees over the years in regards to commish, but most company's that didn't don't even exist anymore in the tough climate. If FS doesn't make money on the product they don't pay the sales associates much, seems fair to...

I agree with most of the comments previous to mine that state that operations staff are overworked and underpaid. Not to mention the lack of recognition that management gives their operations employees. There are two managers at this store that I respect on a personal level as well as a business level. The rest of them tend to make on the spot decisions and typically have us providing "freebies"...

ARROGRANT. THE WORST PEOPLE TO WORK FOR. BUSINESS FIRST......EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECOND AND BEYOND. ITS ALL A GAME TO THEM. IF YOU WANT TO MOVE UP IN THE COMPANY ITS ALL GREASY POLITICS......DISGUSTING. IF MOST CUSTOMERS HAD EVEN A SLIGHT CLUE WHAT A BRUTAL COMPANY THIS WAS, THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY NEVER BUY FROM THEM.

Ultra Hi-pressure micromanage types for Supervisors. One way or the highway sales managers. Com Pay changes in July 2010 made for extreme stress. Resulting in high pressure and/or advantage seeking sales types. Mind games from GM's. Managers would send sales ppl home if they didn't sell home install. People w/out secondary edu promoted to GM. No respect for this company. Work there only if you...

Flagrant favouritism and sexism. I'm male, and constantly see it from management directed at the females, particularly the ones in sales. Constant negative feedback, even on good sales. Encouragement from upper management to lie and be greasy, to 'do anything to get the sale'. Constant pressure, garbage pay.

loved working here!! was here during christmas season for a few years and just loved it:)

Other than the benefit of good staff purchases, I wouldn't recommend anyone work for this company, all the cons outweigh it by far.

In my 3 years working there I was constantly shuffled around and put in various positions I had absolutely no training for. In fact, I had never gone through any training and it was entirely up to me to ask co-workers how to do things.

The pay is terrible. It's...

Definitely not paid what your worth. Commissions are very poor, impossible to advance unless you can really kiss ass, been here 5 years and it use to be a pretty good place to work but lately Its all about the bottom line and you better perform, and still make a shitty $9.40 an hour subsidy. I am an Adult who needs to earn a living but cannot. I live in a house that has no utilities because I...

Futureshop has a constantly changing management face, shuffle the deck and every other month you'll have a new DSM or CS Sup. Operations side are constantly the most underpaid and overworked associates. Because FS is a sales-oriented environment their views and opinions seem to go under appreciated and as such they have the highest turn over. Those who smartly make the change into sales never...

I've worked for FS for over 3 years in customer service. In that time I've seen an epic downfall. It started out as a comfortable work environment, with reasonable expectations, flexibility, & an overall good group of people. However, over time FS has managed to turn the workplace into an unfair, disorganized, stressful, numbers-based place where no one wants to be. Operations staff are...

the most horrible company you can work for in Canada.

they use illegal intimidation tactics on their employee's. The managers do absolutely no work, they demean employees in morning meetings with all the staff (ex: a person i work with is short and the head store manager and all the other managers constantly make fun of him, calling him names like stumpy and telling him he needs a ladder) I...

worst company EVER to work for!

Lazy, overcompensated and overappreciated salespeople are juxtaposed to hardworking, trampled operations staff who get nothing but empty promises.

I have yet to find a Future Shop that isn't a giant breach of safety regulations - unlicensed employees using equipment, failure to maintain safety checklists, failure to provide WHMIS training to all staff. There's rampant sexism and racism, and...

What a brutal job. If you want to get a bunch of promises made and never receive them, then this is the place for you. Work long hours and deal with an unorganized company. As long as they are making money...thats all that matters!!!

Hands down the worst company to work for. If you are there part time for some extra cash and don't really have bills to pay, then it's alright...for maybe a year. Otherwise it's awful. Management in head office is filled with old school sales people of yesterdecade who have never changed their way of thinking, and of course it all trickles down. If it wasn't for a revolving door of young,...

After a few years of service they forced me to quit because work is more important than family.

the North Edmonton location is not a great place to work at.

I'm going onto my fourth year working for this company and I absolutely despise it. As a female working in customer service you get no recognition whatsoever. You get overworked and underpaid by your employers, and spat on and bitched at by customers. When dealing with customer issues, managers will never have you back, making you look like an incompetent fool to the customer you so firmly said...

Horrible Company to work for. Used to be really good to its people but changed their philosophy about a year back. The staff that work for Futureshop now mean little or nothing to in store management and above. Unrealistic goals followed with constant negative feedback create large amounts of stress.

Terrible store to work for. I worked at the Victoria store for three years and found that the management was terrible.

I like working here! I have fun every day and enjoy coming to work. I pretty much get paid to talk to people all day and sell things that I love!

Fun place to work and you get paid well. Management depends on store, and my store ROCKS! I have been in this company for more than 3 years. I am a student so they are flexiable with my schedule. I came from customer service to sales. My managers want me to do my best and always ask me how they can help me perform better. All the managers were once product experts so they understand the job and...

I worked at Future Shop for almost 1 year sadly then quit. They don't treat their employees with respect, tell us to lie to customers to make a sale, and laugh about it. Managers don't agree with the scanning code of practise nor want to follow it. Customers would always complain to me about the way they were being treated. Their would be managers that would make female employees feel...

I still work at FS and can tell you any comment made about how easy to advance is wrong. They only way to get ahead is to lie,cheat,steal and kiss ass. For example there are 3 SA(sales associates I'm a tech)in my department. There was a full time opportuninty(FS has the habit of hiring PT and working them full time hours because they don't have to pay benefits which equals cheaper for them)One is...

Future shop is a terrible employer. They care about profit and nothing else. People are constantly under pressure and nothing is ever good enough. The dumbest but most brain washed employees will be able to advance within the company. There is no gender equality whatsoever, women are underrepresented in managerial roles and even sales positions. The company is a snake in the grass and not for one...

This Company has basically pushed me out after being with them for 5 years and GIVING MY ALL. They do not appreciate you as a person, so why would they even appreciate you as a salesperson? They make u lie to every single customer just so you can make "the numbers"

this is my first and only job and i have been with them for three years. they do not appreciate me and those around me and the supervisors and management team are a joke. have fun while being the best is not an acheivable value to set in this company.

Most disorganized employer I have ever worked for. They are disorganized at every level of the organization..all the way from corporate practices to store level operations. Double standards exist left right and centre. With regards to promotions, its just one big ass-kissing contest and whoever can do it best gets the promotion. Store level management has zero people management skills whatsoever...

You wont get ahead if your female , its not even worth working your butt off just to get zero recognition while a male who works half as hard , gets it all....It is a fun place to work , but it gets old when the managers are too busy smoking pot & drinking with employee's in their free time & then bringing it to the workplace the next day , also managers lie ...They overpromise & under deliever &...

this place sucks no professionalism and people who work there lie if you cannot lie thats not the place for you. The management tells you one thing and when you do it they ask you why you did it and make it look like that you are a liar. very unprofessional , unreliable and undependable employer and I so agree with the managers pet concept its so true.

If you have a problem you will have to...

not the best place to work for if you are looking from a asian community..these guys are not so helpful with u and u get more of the workload and also more stress then others...they have no respect for anyone

Interesting how the positive ratings on this page all seem to be from either the sales or management and all of the negatives seem to be operations employees.

Just goes to show that Future Shop has no idea how to compensate and understand the employees who work under the highest stress levels in the store, with job descriptions that are seldom adhered to.

Sales associates & managers can...

I had been with future shop for a few years before I noticed a trend where employee's would speak up about issues with management then shortly after they would get fired for unknown reasons. These people ranged from Sales associates 1month in to supervisors that had been with the company many years. In some stores there are issues with younger management with little to no management experience...

I have been with the company for 10 years and have been able to see the company grow greatly in the way they take care of its staff and as others have said its a great company to work for but its not for everyone as it takes dedication to be successful

I have been with this company for over 7 yrs now, have seen lots of people leave nd then want to come back to FS, odd thing is that these people were not good in what they did and then they find a website like this and condone the employer who earned their family bread and butter. May be look at what you can improve before you rate an employer. Stress is always there at every walk of life, its...

As a sales associate (or Product Expert) you are left with a decent amount of responsibility which is good as it conrtibutes to how involved in the company you feel but also bad as it can at time raise the amount of stress. That said there are always people there who can and will help you out if you really need it. Very good at rating you work, telling you of your strengths and weaknesses. some...

The store that I work for is completely disorganized. As many people have said, the managers and associates lack on communication. They 'really' need to improve on that.

Been with FS for 5yrs as a Tech so I can't really speak to the sales side. As for us Techs we are underpaid and over worked we are expected to help make sales but get no compensation for doing so everything is about sales. A new program was launched called HTI home theater install and their techs are getting hired at more $$/hr then what Computer and Car Techs make that have been with FS for over...

I used to work at future shop and it was by far the worse job I ever had. I never worked for such a disorganized company.

Worked at Future Shop as a computer technician for just over two years. The management in the store started out pretty good but it went downhill within a year. Then about 8 months ago it went steeply downhill again. I left due to being overworked, underpaid, treated like crap by the new managers, and overall the only reason TO work there was the staff discount. If you need a job for some...

I have been working full time at Future Shop for 6 years. It has its ups and downs. There is not a lot of organization. This is what causes most of the stress. There is also a lack of communication between management and associates. The management needs to listen to the needs of the associates. The ideas should flow upward, not downward. The money makes me happy some of the time but there...

Reading the only comment on this employer thus far brought back old memories for me. I worked for FS back in the mid 1990's. I see that not much has changed. Over promising and under delivering with regards to career potential was the practice then as it seems to be now! I stayed one year, left and quite frankly, never looked back.

I worked for Future Shop for 7 months. Starting pay was $9/hr. I liked the people I worked with and even the managers, but salesmanship is is not my thing. My main issue is that they dangled a promotion over my head for months at a time while obviously having no intention of actually giving it to me.

The working environment was tiresome, if you sold something from another department you'd...