Working at AARONS SALES AND LEASE — Reviews by Employees

This is the worse company I worked for as my life. They let people go for no reason.

i love working for Aarons the pay isnt bad could be alil better the hrs are not bad as long as you get your job done in a timely matter

This particular Aarons is ran by a wimp who run things in a Hitler like manner. He gets great joy out of firing people for made up reasons. Since my tenor there he has fired over 6 people in 5 months. There is absolutely no respect. You are treated as their slave and punished if they don't get their bonus. Job security is non existent. Heaven forbid you have a family emergency. They treat you even worse for having a life. I hope people realize what a rip off Aarons is. The sell things at a 500% markup and all of the furniture they sell is of the poorest quality.

I was actually hired to be an Administrative Assistant for a new Service Center in the area. The work was pleasant and easy but not too challenging for me. I learned all aspects of the electronics repair procedures completing over 100 repairs my first month. I was told that I was headed to leadership with this company. I made it my goal to be successful in this career as well as having job security for myself and my children...All this is wonderful until you have the added stress of a Boss that is supposed to me your mentor and your friend. After four years of dedication to this company and respect for a man that I looked up to, I was met one morning and asked to turn in my keys and pack it up. NO warning, NO write ups, NO reason!!! Close to Exemplary Performance reviews, I was DEVASTATED!!! So it doesnt matter what Aarons Sales and Lease tells you. YOU ARE REPLACABLE if you cannot perform the "personal duties" that men in management ask from you. I only hope his wife realizes how much of a fake he is. This company stole my life, my future and damaged my children beyond repair. And it doesnt matter how many times you call that little number on your paystub, they DONT answer and they DONT call you back. Not even my lawyer can get through. My advice is to stay away because youre only there to make someone else look goo.

be at work at 9:55. work your ass off, sometimes even through your lunch break which they will deduct 30 min for anyways, then go home at 9 pm too exhausted to do anything. your fellow employees will feel the same way, and you probably wont get too many chances to get to know them before they get fed up and leave or are fired for being 3 minutes late to a 9 am morning meeting, or not asking for a customers name on 2 phone shops, go on vacation only to come back and see someone else in your desk, etc.
you have to wear aarons uniforms which they charge $30 a piece for. and you need one for every day of the week.
Your customer base generally consists of the areas lowest forms of life, wife beaters, drug addicts, etc, pretty much all of the garbage who tried and failed doing buisiness with rent-a-center.
There is a very low chance of promotion, and you'll start making right around $9 an hour. regional staff visits once a week to threaten your general managers job and tell him all of the things he's doing improperly even though hes working 13 hours a day 6 days a week for them. as a lower employee who is exhausted with a smaller workload and less hours, you find it hard to keep going back every morning and make 5-7 million a year for a bunch of corporate bums on your location alone when you struggle to make more then $800 every two weeks.
your typical day at aarons is as a slave with little value to its master. if you want to sell your life away, one week at a time for $400, then this is the job for you

Pay, benefits, and growth are great but you better be prepared to not have a life outside from working there. Most employees that make comments about working there love it and say that it is a great family oriented environment. I have to say that's a bunch of crap. I worked there as a Customer Accounts Manager. Sure, the system works for them, but it makes you feel like a terrible person the way they make you do your job. When a customer is one day past due, the accounts manager has to call the customer on his or her home, cell, and work number at least twice a day. Sure, the customer signed and agreement to pay on the 1st or 15th, but if they don't come in or pay they get harassed. I find these practices rediculous. The store I worked at was a small rent to own company with four stores. We had great working relationships in a very laid back family environment until the company bought into aaron's. What a joke this was. About 75% of the people working before the franchise purchase had been there for over five years, including myself, and now only a couple remain. I was fired right before the holidays for no reason. I tried to do my job to their standards and it just wasn't good enough for them. Long story short, aaron's is a terrible place to work and I do not recommend any work there or do business with them.

over worked and under payed

I worked as Sales Manager at Aaron's for a week and a half. The store manager was one of the worst people I have ever been around in my life. I felt like I was walking on egg shells anytime I would ask a question. It is a very hostile environment and regardless of what they say about customer service being #1, they will talk about customers behind their back, etc. I'm not sure how the rest of the stores are, but the store I was in was the worst work environment I have ever been in. DO NOT WORK FOR THEM OR BUY FROM THEM! THEY ARE A HUGE RIPOFF!

THIS STORE IS HORRIBLE, I MEAN WE WORK HARD AND WE ARE TREATED POORLEY BY ALL MANAGERS AND THEY TALK DISRESPECTFULLY ABOUT US TO THE CUSTOMERS....I WILL BE OUT OF HERE SOON, AND BALDY NEEDS TO STOP HITTING ON ALL THE LADIES THAT COME IN HERE