the vacation package is awesome, however the management treats us all like uneducated neanderthals. - Anonymous employee J. Crew Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

the ONLY good reason to work there is you get 28 days of vacation your first year, and if you are crazy enough to stay there five years, you receive another 5 days of vacation. we also get 6 paid holidays.

Cons

we have absolutely no sick time available to us, unscheduled time off results in "occurances" that build towards termination; our hours are constantly cut back to 35 a week (the minimum gauranteed in the employee handbook); there is no actual training department, therefore associates are required to train other associates, without option of extra pay or recognition; we are required to cross-train in every department and meet production standards no matter how long it has been since you last performed any certain task; production standards on some tasks are unrealistic at best, laughable on others; the human resources department is a joke, catering to certain individuals and doing nothing for all others; management is terrible, they treat us like emotionless machines and hairless apes.

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