Pros
This company is great at giving back. They have mission mondays where 10% of their net proceeds of those days go back to the stores own community. They offer give back brands through out the store that help feed, cloth, and educate children around the world, and give women sustainable jobs. They are closed on sundays which is good to have a day off to relax. They compensate their employees up to four extra hours each month if they volunteer in their community. You get 40% off things that you can wear, clothing, shoes, jewelry. 25% off their home goods, picture frames, candles, ext.
Cons
The cons completely outweigh the pros for altar'd state. The stores are great for customers to come and interact and buy clothing from but as someone that works there it is 100% stressful. The stores have so many odds and ends, clothing, books, shoes, jewelry, and gifts. It is so much to take in even as a customer and as an employee it is unbearable. We get shipments each week with no space to put it on the floor and no space for back stock although they keep sending boxes each week until you can't even walk in the stock room. The racks of clothing are so full people can't shop comfortably without knocking down clothes or making the fall of the hangers. It looks like such a stuffed mess but there is nowhere is to put anything. Closing at night takes forever because one, all the clothes are knocked on the floor, and two there are so many go backs due to not tasking on the floor. There is usually only two coverage throughout the day which means those two are working so hard to get every customer what they need and customers needs are still not being met. Corporate wants you to completely focus on the women that are shopping and not on tasking at all but then you never are able to get anything done. They say they don't care about the money at all and only what is best for the customer but they set their goals each day so high you can't reach them and then get rude emails asking what you did wrong to not reach them. At night if you don't make your goal sometimes they will send an email telling you to keep yours doors open till a certain time or until you make your goal. Some of us want to actually get home at a reasonable time and after running around all day trying to find things thrown about the store the last thing you want is have to stay open past hours when customers probably aren't even going to come in. Every time people from corporate comes they are dressed to a T in altar'd state and looks down if you can't afford to have everything new that they send out. The dress code is no name brand logos on any clothes and to mostly look the part but they are thinking of changing it to only wearing the clothes that the store sales. Who has the money for that? At any job you have to look presentable and showered with no messy hair but they make you wear your hair down. No up do's at all which i think is the most ridiculous rule. No ponies, no buns, I could see that if they were messy looking but come on, hair down every day is just not as easy as it may seem. Sometimes when you are running around all day it helps if you pull your hair out of your face. Markdowns is insane. They don't give you a list of what you need to markdown and they don't have a gun that you can walk around the store with so you have to get each item all through the store and scan and then mark them all down. Why can they afford to keep growing stores when they can't buy a handheld gun to make things go by faster and be more efficient. Lastly the pay is awful. They start at minimum wage for the associates and management makes almost the same when you average in all the hours that they have to put in.
