Union busting sell outs - Sales Lead REI Employee Review

1.0
6 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great discounts on gear and you get to talk about fun outdoors things all day

Cons

REI as a company (corporate), not necessarily each store, are trying to silence the employees trying to unionize. They set unreasonable expectations for availability (requiring full availability to only get 8-16 hours a week) and virtue signal that they care about the environment but throw out more plastic in a day at one store than a person may in their life time

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5.0
21 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Open and nice to work for

Cons

Didn’t like that you won’t be able to take time off during sales and so people call out

3.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

Cons

- Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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