- Jurisdiction
- Texas
The company I work for has regular sales "competitions" between the stores where we have to suggestively sell a particular product or products (i.e. 20 oz. Coca-Cola products, off brand cookies, etc.). The number of required minimum sales used to be somewhat reasonable, around 20 or so a day. However, the numbers required have jumped to 50 a day, minimum, and if we don't meet the goal we, the Store Manager included, risk getting written up my the higher management (District Manager+). This has put us into a tight situation. When we are unable to meet the minimum goals, the we end up buying to make up the difference, which can sometimes be the minimum sales goal on slow days where we can't make a suggestive sale sale. This has put us into a tight spot financially. About a third of my last few paychecks have gone to helping to make the goal, and my boss has been making up most of the sales on most days. The way the competitions have been handled has always seemed a bit fishy to me, but now were in a corner, and I want to know if it's even legal for them to threaten write ups, disciplinary actions, etc., for not making these unreasonable goals.