Ok for first time job, not good for long term job prospects - Retail Sales Associate Forever 21 Employee Review

2.0
10 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Store is glitzy and fashionable Convenient location Employee bathroom is big and clean Most employees ok, mostly young college-age girls Highly doubt there's much room for advancement - as a side note, most of the upper management are conventionally attractive, make of that what you will

Cons

Took forever to get hired, management is disorganized and a lot of stuff is manual Despite this, we had to sign in with these expensive biometric fingerprint scanners which is extremely invasive and big brother Had to call in for schedule, no online app to check this kind of stuff Constantly pushing the credit cards, your hours hinge on your ability to get apps every shift Made us enter and exit through certain entrances but the store is so big that it cuts into your check in/check out time. Employee entrance on different floor than break room (you have to put your stuff away before clocking in). Very hypocritical of CEO to claim to be Christian and yet engage in very un-Christlike behavior like paying employees min wage, giving them short breaks, making them push unethical credit cards on customers. Corporate is cheap and paranoid. Even though break room is super small, company invests in fingerprint scanners and video cameras to monitor employees vigilantly. Break room is small and bleak.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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