Communications Concierge - Anonymous employee Wedding Salon Employee Review

Almost everything. I worked for Wedding Salon for only a short amount of time and was completely unhappy for the entire duration of my employment. The CEO and Founder is an EXTREME micro-manager. She knows this and is "working on it". I myself did not see much improvement on this front while I was there, but am told she was much better when I was there than previously and actually HAS improved which is a shock to me. You are required to send her an email every single day detailing every single thing you did besides eat lunch and go to the bathroom. There are security cameras everywhere in the office recording everything you do and say and from my understanding, she would regularly watch the footage. I was hired under somewhat false pretense. I was told in my interviews that my job would be only 25% sales, something I had ¬never done before and I was hired as a "Tradeshow Manager". However, on my very first day I was cold calling and doing practice sales calls with other employees and my title magically changed from "Tradeshow Manager" to "Communications Concierge" which is not something I would have ever applied for in the first place. I was consistently asked why I wasn’t making enough calls on days that I had other tasks to do. When I talked about how I was uncomfortable and unhappy in my role with the CEO she declared that "I was being weird about it all", focusing on “low hanging fruit” and I "should get a Tinder profile to let off some steam" and that I wasn't doing "sales" like I thought but "client communication". However I had a sales goal to reach and one other person and I were responsible for 75-80% of the sales for an event but made NO commission (there is a bonus pool everyone is eligible for but there are strict rules on how you become eligible for it). The benefits at this company were horrible. The health insurance is insanely expensive (I think she chose this so that people don’t choose it so that way she doesn’t have to reimburse anyone for it), she begrudgingly gives off only the minimum amount of days required for her to do by law. There is no 401k or retirement savings options (despite what she may be saying in interviews) and there is no HR department for when you are uncomfortable or need to talk to someone. She has fairly regular company outings after work but they are not worth all of the headaches that you deal with on a daily basis. Overall, if you LOVE sales and bridal and don’t mind being micro-managed this is your dream job. Otherwise, STAY AWAY! Everyone in the entire company does sales (regardless of your qualifications and job title ie: the office manager and the CEO’s NANNY make sales calls and send email blasts). I honestly don't know how this company has stayed in business this long.