Great Job if your Single! - Store Manager Bath & Body Works Employee Review

5.0
16 Mar 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you are someone who is motivated by praise and recognition, this is the place for you. As a Store Manager weekly conference calls are mandatory to allow for summary of previous weeks sales numbers and traffic conversion, "opportunites" with Brand, Talent, and Capabilities (which is there term for administrative focus on everything from merchandising to payroll. Sets the pace and goal for the upcoming week. They have "playbook" that if you follow, WORD fo WORD, will bring much success and a lot less grief for you as a manager within the Limited Brands World. It's basically "Retail Management for Dummies". Very structured company.

Cons

Because the company is Very structured, you will have very little opportunity to "think outside the box". Be VERY careful with alllllll of their policies in place. They do enforce them, even if you think they are the most minut and trival procedures. You will succeed if you give your life to them. This is a VERY hands on position. Work/Life balance may come after your first year once you have finally caught up with all there is to learn and establish your foundation. There is NO life in the months of NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY! (January is their Semi-Annual clearance event.) If you are not good at organization, and time management, this is NOT the place for you.

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5.0
3 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I previously worked in the field (for a different brand) and we were always so weary of corporate teams coming into the stores. However, the corporate team at Bath & Body Works is absolutely incredible, supportive, and does everything they can to advocate for the stores. The entire Store Ops team is full of people who care deeply about the brand, the store associates, and the customer.

Cons

A lot of meetings. But being remote, it was nice to see faces throughout the day!

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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