Can be Great - Anonymous employee Bath & Body Works Employee Review

3.0
9 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Bath & Body is a fun and upbeat place to work. I worked here part time during all 4 years of college. As I used to tell customers, employees get paid to play in their favorite store all day. Management sets friendly competition between the different stores in the district, and there are rewards for exceeding sales plan.

Cons

Scheduling is based directly on your sales. High sales mean more hours. This is good for employees who are good at selling, but there's more than just selling to the business. There can be good cashiers and good replenishers who don't get scheduled because their sales aren't high enough (which is what happened to me). It's a catch 22 because low sales mean less hours, and with less hours, you have less opportunity to get your sales up.

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1.0
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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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