If you want to have a life don’t work here - Store Manager Sunglass Hut Employee Review

1.0
1 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

You are able to pay all your bills while working here, there’s no need for a second job

Cons

Everything else is a con besides the pay. For some odd reason you cannot take vacations during the summer months, they deny PTO that you’ve scheduled in advance. They will even go as far as firing you due to you taking that PTO that you’ve already scheduled. As a manager you will never be able to have a life. So if you’re thinking about family vacations, watching your wife birth your child, getting married, cruises, etc… you CANNOT and I mean CANNOT take off. As a manger, your staff is automatically unreliable and when you are finally burnt out, you will receive the backlash. Your staff will be unable to cover you and your supervisor can’t help because 9 times out of 10 they live in a completely different state than you. So if you’re mentally exhausted, sick and dying plus you are without any staff to cover you then you must stay at your job so the thieves don’t steal the sunglasses. Once again, if you value your sanity please avoid this job. If I could rate work/life balance a ZERO I would do it in a heartbeat.

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5.0
9 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

My location and Manager was amazing.

Cons

Typical retail job, not enough hours.

4.0
27 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

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