four hour shifts, a couple times a week - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

3.0
Jun 8, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Really, the best thing about working there was the cross brand discount. I haven't used Bath & Body Works products since I was about fifteen, but could use my discount at Victoria's Secret which was excellent. I was surrounded by a lot of girls my own age and they were fun to be around and I got a lot of interaction with customers.

Cons

The smell of the store really gets to you after a while. As someone who is sensitive to smells and has asthma, I'd get pretty dizzy after a couple of hours, but I think that's to be expected working in such a pungent store. The scheduling is horrible. The shifts are for the most part set up in four hour blocks, and most employees only get two or three a week. Those shifts are "supplemented" by call in shifts which you have to call in an hour before your shift starts to see if they need you, and at my small store, they rarely did, even during the Christmas rush. Because of the short shifts, breaks don't exist either. Requesting time off is somewhat complicated, and all of the scheduling is impersonal and done online.

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Cons

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Cons

Learning & Development within Human Resources was a very ambiguous field to work in. Management left me chasing my tail and sent me down rabbit holes they later scolded me for pursuing. There was one instance where I had to update Onboarding materials, I was told to use a specific font and to reach out to Marketing to obtain the font. Marketing told me that font was retired and I could use a variety of other fonts. My Manager told me "no you're going to use that font," I had no access to that font and she would not do anything to help grant me access to that font, I needed Adobe Pro installed on my computer to obtain the retired font, and she did not approve the budget request for me to get it installed. I had to go through IT to obtain a work around that she did not help with at all. I'm not sure if it was a test or what in the world she was doing, but it was that kind of indirect, weird, almost non sequitur responses from her while trying to deal with a simple request of utilizing the correct font that continued while working with her. "What do you want to work on?" I would explain what I wanted to work on. "Well no, that wouldn't be good at all, that would be a complete waste of time." I had a stellar experience working with the Learning & Development team in the Distribution Centers for 2.5 years, but moving to the Home Office space was a complete 360, from comfort and encouragement, to ambiguity and cold shoulders from leadership.

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