take the job as a last resort - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

1.0
1 Aug 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

easy job to get coworkers are nice(some are over the top)

Cons

I have never had a job that was so cut throat. I thought I was imagining things my first couple days. I wanted to keep my job for about a year as a sales associate, but as a student this job is too stressful. It is one of the most stressful jobs I have had. The management tells you to sell, sell, and sell. It is ridiculous. After all it is lotion and creams. How much do people need? I thought it would be a fun place to work, instead it turned out to be the opposite----stressful!

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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