MICRO-MANAGEMENT
Do you like people watching over your shoulder? Suits telling you to sell things nobody wants to buy? Bored District Middle Managers with nothing better to do than create problems and berate your store, THEN to gossip to other stores about how terrible your store is? If you enjoy being doubted of your capability of doing the job you were hired for, working around co-workers you can't trust, and love the ideas of being held to a standard of perfection you will never reach then Nespresso is for you!
FULL-BLOWN BUREAUCRACY
You will have to sign for everything and anything you do. Sign out to use the bathroom, sign in when you come back, sign to say you've been at this meeting, sign to say you did this thing, sign after you've read this email, sign whenever you've wiped thoroughly between your buttcheeks. Also if you work at the boutique level you are a peon that must trade up the chain to be heard. Hope that you're well liked, because if your direct manager terrible, and if your district manager is terrible, and if HR is terrible no one will care about your issues (and yes, most likely all of your managers will suck, fun!).
Also be prepared for foreign corporate dudes in suits sweetly asking your honest opinion, while you manager expects you to lie through your teeth. Yes, they ask for the truth, but don't be surprised if you lose your job if you actually tell them all the things that need to change. The large, slow to change, bureaucratic nature is one of this company's worst attributes. Don't forget to smile!
RAMPANT NEPOTISM
You only get promoted if people like you. If they don't like you, forget it. If your hair isn't a certain way, forget it. If you come in on time, do your job, sell the most, but you don't have the chipper, super smiley, energetic attitude of a cokehead on crack, forget it. If you come in late, gossip, don't sell a bunch, and have the Nespresso "look" you will be on the fast track to getting that lovely promotion you are probably too incompetent to fulfill.
NEPOTISM II
Sleeping around is also a fun way to get promoted! ::wink wink:: Many people use that as a means to push themselves up the ladder. Some of the employees even live together!
UNATTAINABLE IMAGE OF PERFECTION
Nespresso's aims to make the perfect cup of coffee. This also means you need to be Nespressofied into the perfect stiff, unemotional smiling robot. Your personality needs to be as generic as possible. You will need to know all the sales numbers to your store for the two years and be able to recant them on command. Your personality will need to be generic and plain as possible. Nespresso will give you generic ill-fitting uniforms, only to send out their flying monkey district managers to yell at you about your ill-fitting, cheap uniforms look terrible on you. You have to use the same scripted robotic words with every customer in fear that you are being secretly evaluated by mystery shoppers. The price you pay for agreeing to their acceptance letter is your first born and your soul.
QUESTIONABLE ETHICS
Nestle's other brands carry out practices all around the world that could be considered unethical. Just look up "nestle baby formula in africa" or "nestle waters california drought." Nespresso is owned by Nestle, and the parent company engages in questionable ethical activities.
If you'd like to know about more CONS for this company, go ahead and apply today!
