Pros
The people at my store and girls I met in the company were truly amazing people. My DM was extremely dedicated to her role and had an even worse work life balance than me. She was very involved and dedicated and would help with the work load during visits, which were often.
Cons
Where to start. The work life balance is non existant. Expect to pull 55 hour work weeks regularly. I did three 60 hr weeks in row. An 18 hour shift overnight to set a semi annual sale, want home and slept for 3 hrs. Then returned at 5pm to set a window until 3am. Back home to work a 10 hour day in the morning followed by 2 more 60 hr work weeks. You are told you are salary and the expectation is that you stay until it is done. I had 5 managers below me, 2 of which were salary and my hours never changed. Very little respect from corporate employees at store visits which you will stay all night prepping for and the ceo may not even show up. I have never Bern treated with such disrespect from corporate employees in my career of 15 years. They say they are christian and they do give back money to charity bur it is 1 percent of brand name items. The mark up is ridiculous. Mission Monday is on a day that is the least profitable in retail. If you are going to claim faith based you need to interact with your employees who are the foundation of your business with respect. I went to bed in tears almost every night. My days off were spent sleeping because of exhaustion. I wasn't even employed during holiday and these were my hours and experience. The training is a joke and the expectations are unrealistic. Your payroll us not based on business. You could double your day and your hours don't change. Hours are fixed. Not enough payroll for lengthy tasks because salary managers expected to make up the difference. 20 hours for shipment whether you get 5 boxes or 80 boxes and expect a 24 turn of completion with a store jam packed with merchandise and no where to put new merch. I can't say enough about the negative experience I had with this company. The reviews are true. Take them honestly because working for this company was one of the worst professional experiences I have had thus far. I was so grateful when I was offered another job and was able to resign.
