Complete Favoritism and Misleading Expectations - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

1.0
10 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Friendly interview experience -Decent pay (when you get it) -If you land the managers good side, you might enjoy it

Cons

-They assess you during training and immediately decide if you're worth it, or not In 8 months of employment, I was called in a total of 4 times (one of which was a mandatory meeting) -Clear divide between favored and nonfavored employees Several employees recieved top hours, while other employees I spoke to, like myself, could go MONTHS without a shift. The higher hour employees basically ignored the lower hour employees and didn't speak to us, or could be heard gossiping about 'who we even were' -Hostile and two-faced management The management was, at best, obnoxiously customer servicey to your face, and at worst, blatantly accusatory and hostile. My last shift (sometime before November), I had finished my tasks and tried to find the store manager to ask to clock out. While waiting for her to finish up something, another manager approached me and asked if I was trying to "run out the clock." Not to mention searching everyone's belongings on the way out to make sure no one is shoplifting on the job.

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5.0
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Pros

Fun product to sell, loyal customers, free product to try

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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