The Modern Day Slave Sweatshop. - Anonymous employee The RealReal Employee Review

1.0
6 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None sorry not sorry. Bagels don’t make up for your poor quality of managers and work environment.

Cons

Honestly not even sure why I’m wasting my time writing this review when FAKE CORPORATE REVIEWS WILL BE UPLOADED RIGHT AFTERWARDS to improve their FAKE RATING ON HERE. This place is a joke. They underappreciate when you exceed your personal goals and look down on people who want to take PTO. Managers are not even competent nor does HR ever respond to your emails in a timely manner. Don’t worry, they’ll respond 5 days later. The warehouse was always cold due to the failure of installing a heater. There were water leakage many times. I’ve never felt so undervalued at a job in my life, and this is a lesson learned for sure. Money wasn’t good enough for the amount of work all the hardworking people were doing.

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Cons

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2.0
13 Jun 2026
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

Cons

Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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