save yourself and don’t work here - Sales Associate Sunglass Hut Employee Review

1.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

you get to make connections with some fun customers and you get a free pair of glasses once a year.

Cons

literally everything else is a con. management is very discriminatory and favors people who are closer in race/ethnicity. they do NOT take criticism well but will micromanage every single thing you do or don’t do. the stores are unkept and literally dirty in every way imaginable. you will never be offered a raise. you will never be offered to move up. if you’re part time, you can expect 4 hours a week and that’s it. if you ask for more hours you likely won’t get it but they will call you last minute (often hours before a shift) as soon as they need someone for coverage. commission is like maybe 1%. goals are sometimes unreasonable and do not adjust according to weather, events, traffic, etc. management constantly watches surveillance cameras throughout the day just to nitpick employees in real time.

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5.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pass time to earn money on the side

Cons

loads of online learning materials and lectures you need to consistently watch and do quizzes on

4.0
27 June 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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