Bath and Body Works experience - Store Manager Bath & Body Works Employee Review

3.0
Dec 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products and lots of avenues for promotion. As far as the company operations, Bath and Body Works is competent and there is excellent communication coming from upper management.

Cons

As a store manager, I was getting paid $55,000 a year to ring on a register for about 6-7 hours a day. The other 2-3 hours I was stocking shelves. It was usually myself with just 1 other person in the whole store. No time to analyze the business or train and develop my employees. There was not enough payroll to keep the store well stocked, organized, and clean. Most of the employees, including myself, worked constantly at a fast pace, however, it was impossible to run that store up to standard with such little payroll hours allotted. As the store manager, I had to create the schedule. During the holidays, with more than 100 part time employees, the schedule could take me up to 6 hours to complete which I had to do on my day off.

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Cons

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Pros

Good discounts on merchandise, easy work.

Cons

I would have loved to purchase some of their products conisdering the 40% off discount for employees, but they failed to pay me enough to sustain myself let alone buy from their store! I was getting paid about $150 every two weeks! They never notified me about how little I'd be working or about what my schedule would be like, my shifts were completely random. If you want a set schedule each week. this job isn't for you, you're lucky to get 1 shift a week that only lasts about 3-4 hours. Once again, my supervisors failed to mention this, thinking it was more important that I know how to sell products than whether or not I get paid enough to survive. I don't know why there was so much emphasis on selling merchandise to customers anyway, these products practically sell themselves. I had a lot of questions starting out since I was a NEW EMPLOYEE and all and had never worked a job like this in my life, but for some reason my supervisors failed to see this and instead made me feel ashamed and embarassed for asking the simplest of questions. They'd actually get mad and a little sassy at me for asking a question, like where a specific item was or how to do a return. I have to remind you, I had just started and my shifts were so sporadic it was difficult to retain all the info, so I HAD to ask questions.

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