Bath & Body Works reviews

Out of the entire pool of employees at the store (15-20... 25-30 during the Christmas season and semi-annual sales), only 3 (ie. managers and co-managers) are full time. All the rest are temporary (or permanent part-time...) getting 25 hours or less (in some cases, 5-8 hours). I was lucky enough to get 20 hours regularly, but felt the frustration of my colleagues, particularly when they were taking down their schedules for the coming week. Minimum wage to start unless you are a manager. Maybe 25-50 cent raise each review. Commission structure tore apart the good vibrations among the associates. Customers often believe they can bully associates. To be fair, some associates flat out lie to customers as well. Coupons have a significant amount of fine print which confuses customers or which they do not even bother to look at. Marketing makes poor decisions (lidless candles?? really??). What looks pretty on paper is often impractical in a real store situation.

Little to no accountability or monitoring of upper management and their behavior Very little in form of a support system for those who experience/witness bullying System that allows for management to do little to no work Expected to be on call, even though that is not in the signed contract