No Life - Anonymous employee Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
9 Nov 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Pay - Benefits (401k, Health Insurance, ect.) - Opportunity to grow within the company

Cons

- No work life balance. Schedules are made only a week out and can sometimes be late. During the holiday/semi-annual sale, home office LOVES to send "mid-theme updates." Meaning you'll be changing marketing, and setting up tables- they will give you a few hours so that you can call extra associates and stay later than what you were scheduled. Thing is, they send them so last minute that hardly anyone is available. - Payroll. Not enough payroll to function when it comes to smaller volume stores. I should never have to be by myself. One it's not safe, two think about LP and three think about customer service. I've had multiple customers who were shocked that I was the only person in the store working. Another thing is I'm tired of having to stay late all the time and having to come in last minute due to poor planning from home office. - Training. This company provides tools and videos for you to learn... However, when do you get the time!? I've learned a lot on my own and in the moment. This company believes in *sink or swim" kind of training. - I hate hearing upper management gossip. It's distracting and doesn't make anyone feel good.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Good discounts on merchandise, easy work.

Cons

I would have loved to purchase some of their products conisdering the 40% off discount for employees, but they failed to pay me enough to sustain myself let alone buy from their store! I was getting paid about $150 every two weeks! They never notified me about how little I'd be working or about what my schedule would be like, my shifts were completely random. If you want a set schedule each week. this job isn't for you, you're lucky to get 1 shift a week that only lasts about 3-4 hours. Once again, my supervisors failed to mention this, thinking it was more important that I know how to sell products than whether or not I get paid enough to survive. I don't know why there was so much emphasis on selling merchandise to customers anyway, these products practically sell themselves. I had a lot of questions starting out since I was a NEW EMPLOYEE and all and had never worked a job like this in my life, but for some reason my supervisors failed to see this and instead made me feel ashamed and embarassed for asking the simplest of questions. They'd actually get mad and a little sassy at me for asking a question, like where a specific item was or how to do a return. I have to remind you, I had just started and my shifts were so sporadic it was difficult to retain all the info, so I HAD to ask questions.

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