Cynthia Rowley Reviews

INCREDIBLY UNORGANIZED. Both the owner and her President (also self named CEO) are so unprofessional and unethical. The owner doesn’t know how to run a business and takes no responsibility. Get used to being spoken down to, yelled at in front of coworkers and being verbally attacked daily. Expect to be overworked and grossly underpaid and that’s if your lucky enough to get paid. Company is a sinking ship and due to lack of money hold your breath every pay period because sometimes you won’t get paid on time and then when questioning it expect to be told “you can wait two days what’s the big deal” but also know that they won’t tell u in advance of not getting paid. You will just wake up to no money ever hitting your account with no notification. President of the company if you can even call her that does absolutely NOTHING except for roll her eyes and give attitude when things don’t go her way. You can expect child temper tantrums out of her and huffing and puffing when she doesn’t like an answer. The best part of the day is when she is at her fake meetings where she tries to convince everyone she’s getting investors. No company would be stupid enough to invest in this sinking ship. President thinks she is better then everyone because of her Harvard degree and doesn’t let anyone forget she went there probably because it was the peak of her life. She has no business being hired as she knows absolutely nothing about the fashion industry she just used her big words to sell Cynthia that she can get investors. Company name is only still around due to is licensing agreements because anything Cynthia designs herself doesn’t sell. You might be asked to do something that compromises your ethics for example photoshopping signed employee contracts to alter wording or salary stipulations or asking factories to lie on invoices so you don’t have to pay as much taxes on imports. Falsifying documents is probably the only thing this company is good at besides for picking up newly graduated kids eager to start there career and then abusing them until they quit. Every good review listed on Glassdoor for this company is a lie. Cynthia got wind of all the bad reviews and forced interns and employees to write reviews that she then approved before submitting. If I can leave anyone with any advise it’s run and never look back working here hurts ur resume more then anything as everyone in the industry knows how unorganized and unprofessional it is.

Working at Cynthia Rowley was emotionally draining, exhausting and quite frankly terrible. I knew I made a mistake at the end of my first week when the woman who hired and trained me looked me dead in the the eyes and said "I hate it here." As a manager you have no power, I had an 18 year college student working for me who would never show up on time, Juuled in the bathroom, came in high, left early and would close the store hours early. I wasn't allowed to fire her because she looked "on brand". I was never allowed to deny associates time off, therefore I had to work their shifts. I also was never allowed to be paid for more than the minimum 40 hours a week despite always working close to 60. Employee discount? At what the pay, how could their employees afford anything? $525 for a cotton kaftan. You're usually the only one working in store so you can't take a break, but you get 30 minutes- an hour deducted each day. You also can't eat or go to the bathroom during your shift due to the lack of employees. Side note, Cynthia Rowley licenses her name to TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Ross, so frequently you have customers bring in that merchandise to return or exchange and then you find yourself educating them on the concept of licensing. The only store Cynthia cares about is Bleeker Street, that stores consistent holier than thou attitude impacts every other locations business as we are forced to send them merchandise all the time. My biggest issue was the fact I never received the proper final check, the President of the comapany claims there were issues with hours, which are fine. But in my state its illegal to with hold a final check. For each day I wasn't paid after that pay period the company owed me 10% of my final check each day. There I am still owed $1,250 by Cynthia Rowley.