i Can Earn Gas Money - Fitting Room Associate Marshalls Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The hiring process is easy and relatively straight forward. Good first job for college students that don't need to earn a lot. The are multi-national so, conceivably, wherever you move you can still always work for them.

Cons

The starting rate is minimum wage, regardless of past retail experience. The store stays a mess because they wont hire sufficient staff to keep it orderly. Most of the staff are college students with limited work experience and dubious work ethics--this translates to high shrinkage and older workers doing more than their fair share. The store is open until 9:30 pm as opposed to 9:00 pm like other retail establishments in the area. Then you have to wait for management to audit registers. So, routinely, the associates don't walk out of the store until after 10:00 pm. There is little established in the way of a clear career path. The training was insufficient. They do not promote hiring from within. If your total store sales are high enough that you can become a manager, once you become a manger, you are often transferred to a store with lower sales so that you can improve it. The net result is that you work in the worst, and oldest, stores for much of your career.

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Cons

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