Pros
I love the fact that you get to meet a lot of people genuinely interested in fashion, I've made some really great friends too. The clothes are really nice so its always good when you get your uniform allowance. Having said that 'uniform' isn't really the right term, you can just wear what you're comfortable in that is in stock and I feel like that enables me to work to a better standard? rather than being constricted by a standard company uniform if you get what I mean, like Subway or like Primark or something along those lines. You get a sense of freedom and you can really show off your own fashion sense within what River Island stock.
Cons
A-midst all the great things however lies a sort of 'bad smell' in the form of select members of upper management. In the two years I have worked for the company there have been two different store managers, I have been spoken to only twice. I feel it's as though I do not exist in the eyes of upper management, I understand that they will be busy yet on two occasions (with each member off staff) I tried to say something and was ignored. Like literally ignored purposely. This attitude I feel carries over into almost every member of the ladies product team and sales and service management. I am constantly spoken to as if I am a new starter and I have no idea what I am doing (by managers who know and have seen my face for well over a year!) and personally if I was a new starter at the company today and was spoken too like a child and left to my own devices with little knowledge of the field on my first shift I would be more than tempted to leave.
