Great Starter Job - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

3.0
2 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I use the products Bath & Body sells so being able to get good discounts on candles, body care products, soap, etc. was a perk of working there. My coworkers were some of the best coworkers I've had and management was also great! I was also promoted pretty quickly. From associate to cash lead within 4 months of employment and shortly after I was promoted to a temporary key holder which came with a minimum of 30 hours and week and a small pay raise.

Cons

The short shifts ended up being the reason I left. Around the holidays, you get a bunch of hours but afterwards, for months I might add, hours are significantly reduced and you may see only 1 shift for the week. The shifts could be a minimum of 3 hours with the option of an extension if necessary. This means that you're only going to be scheduled for 3 hours but if somebody calls off your shift could get extended to 5 hours to help cover their shift. This coupled with having just 1 shift a week didn't helping pay the bills and I had to get a second job to make ends meet. LOW PAY!!!! The minimum pay was about $13 an hour and unless you were a manager, nobody was making over $15 an hour! They over hired, at least at my location. They would hire way more people than necessary which meant about 90 people had to share shifts. If too many people were there, even though the shifts were just 3 hours long, you could still get sent home early because they wouldn't have the payroll if the store wasn't busy.

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5.0
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Pros

Fun co-workers and friendly management

Cons

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1.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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