Quit after 6 weeks. - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

1.0
1 July 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Coworkers are nice. If you like their products you get extreme discounts, especially on discontinued stuff.

Cons

Hours, hours, hours. I only got 8-12 hours a week here regardless of how much I was selling (I consistently doubled my sales goals). When I realized my paycheck would only come out to $50-$80 a week here, I quit and got a different job where I actually got real hours. Basically this is a company that hires many part-time employees and pays them horribly to save money instead of having 4 or 5 really great full time employees and having to give them benefits. Most of my coworkers had to have 1-2 other jobs even if they lived rent free. I had serious allergies while working here also, since you are constantly surrounded by artificial fragrances. The stock room was dangerous and disorganized. They spent more time teaching me how to deal with shoplifters than the benefits of their products and how to talk about them. One of the most atrocious things about this company is the "call-ins" where you are scheduled usually in the middle of the day (12-4 or 1-5)and you are to call the store an hour before the shift would start to see if they would even need you. If you weren't needed, you could go about your day. The problem was that I was scheduled so many call-ins that I could never make plans, but I was never actually called in to work. Not once.

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5.0
22 June 2026
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Pros

Generous pay for management, paid holidays and maternity leave for full timers, good benefits. Treats us more like humans than any other business I’ve ever worked for

Cons

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1.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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