Working here makes you HATE retail! - Sales Specialist Victoria's Secret Employee Review

2.0
May 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing product, loved my discount, and they train employees well.

Cons

Management plays favorites. It's become harder to get off when you need to and managers threaten write ups. One of the girls was in the ER and when she tried to call off our manager threatened her with a write up. The company has taken a new direction. I was there for 4 years and last year they started sale tracking. Not only can employees lose their job for not selling a certain amount per month, but you're basically forced to shove customer service down each customers throats, and some employees are even stealing sales from one another to keep their sales numbers up. The atmosphere is no longer about the customer and THEIR needs. It's about the company making more money to recover the money they lose from internal and external theft! Oh and you can get fired for trying to stop thieves now.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

Sudden Return to Work mandate 3 days in NY or OH SIX years after COVID. Any current employees outside of those states are being let go if they don’t uproot their lives and relocate. Many employees in those states built their lives around what seemed to be a permanent remote flexibility arrangement (most companies went back in 23). When Hillary Super came on she even stated in one of her first Q&A’s on remote work that where people do their jobs wasn’t a big concern for her as long as we continued to drive the business forward. The business is doing the best it ever has in the last five years. Leadership reasoning for mandate is continuing to fall flat. Mandate came absolutely out of NOWHERE.

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