The Body Shop Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

Benefits and long service awards are excellent. Training and development at a store level is also very good.

Cons

Some upper management expect too much. Communication can sometime leave a little to be desired. Lone trading becoming much more common.

Pros

store teams are brilliant and so hardworking

Cons

12 hour shifts long periods with no days off unrealistic expectations unpaid overtime upper management are bullies lots of favouritism ethics to not apply to employees moved from store to store wether you want to or not no communication between R.M's and stores

Pros

Only thing is the discount.

Cons

Salaries are terrible. Management plays favourites. No advancement within company. Company full of catty women - basically a big Hen Fest. You get in trouble for not wearing makeup!! Zero communication within company, clueless and rude operations management. Good luck getting any recognition from upper management.

Pros

flexible schedule good work life balance

Cons

most upper management are stuck up no place for growth pushed to sell but no commission for sales

Pros

Very generous discounts/gratis product Company doesn’t test on animals/is forward about charity

Cons

Unreasonable/unrealistic sales goals that pit employees against each other Managers can manipulate sales goals to make themselves look better Upper management cutthroat and not understanding about ridiculous sales goals Unclear policies/quick policy changes Below average compensation Potential for extremely low hours Terrible benefits package High turnover

Pros

I've worked for the company for a little over five years. I was hired as a sales associate and from the get go was trained on their ideals and beliefs. In the beginning I was with mangers who genuinely cared about their jobs and the products. When I was promoted, things changed.

Cons

First off, I was severely underpaid... like severely. If I was working actual part time hours (unlike the 40 hours I worked every week) maybe I would be a less bitter. They treated me like I was a full time employee but I never received the benefits of one. Day after day I received little to no direction from upper management but still given the expectation that things would get done the way they wanted. The corporate office had no idea what so ever what they were doing... they never sent the right materials and tools that the stores needed... it was never a walk in the park. Also the turnover rate in that company is astronomical. SERIOUSLY HIRE GOOD PEOPLE WHO WILL ACTUALLY STAY IN YOUR STORES!!! Its the never ending circle of horrible people being hired and the good people getting burnt out for over compensating for the bad people. After dealing with four manager changes in my time there, the last manager (who still works there) pitted employees against each other and used personal information about them as gossip. I know she was the reason why three of her best employees quit (including myself). Also, after five years of service I only received ONE raise.