Not the best summer job - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
Dec 5, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

gain experience in sales, gain familiarity with all of the products, gain experience operating cash registers and cleaning, decent employee discount, resetting for each new season or sale was my favorite part of the job

Cons

If there are no customers in the store, it is extremely boring and all you do is straighten the rows of products. There were no benefits for part-time employees at all except free samples on occasion. The two managers I worked under were passionate about their jobs, but not very competent. That job convinced me I needed a college degree so I wouldn't have to stock shelves for the rest of my life.

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1.0
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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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