MICRO-MANAGEMENT, WORST PLACE TO WORK, SAVE YOURSELF NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE - Beauty Advisor Sephora Employee Review

1.0
Mar 31, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

staff discount 40% for sephora brand, 30% for exclusive brands, 20% non-exclusive brands

Cons

- Sephora DID NOT PAY ME for weeks after I had to chase and chase my pay. The manager told me to send her my payslips which they never provided me and got mad when I couldn't give her these - even if you're a casual employee, they make you bring in a doctors certificate for missing one day of work - time your break down to the second, I was literally 45secs late from returning back from break and my manager had to talk to me - bag check- no trust in employees, they think you steal something everytime you work - was provided no uniform for 2 months as being a staff, had to wear all black - managers are so conceited and think they're running a luxury brand - lonngggggg shifts- 8-9hr shift allocations with no possibility of shorter shifts - forced to have knowledge about every.single.product. and ingredients with no training OVERALL, horrible place to work that is highly micro-managed and do not pay their staff

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Cons

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Pros

Friendly, knowledgeable, supportive coworkers. Management is generally pretty good. You get to work with all the fun products and learn directly from brand reps. And the customers are there to learn about the products - and you get to talk to them about the best products. If you're excited about Sephora, go apply!

Cons

Hours vary based on the time of the year.

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