Toxic Work Environment - Sales Associate Victoria's Secret Employee Review

1.0
3 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Freebies Co-workers Made some friends

Cons

Not a great experience. Workplace culture is toxic positivity. Managers have favourites and if you are not one of them expect to be treated poorly. You start out seasonal and if they like you they will keep you. Training isn’t sufficient . They expect you to come in 10-20 minutes unpaid to read a bunch of sales targets which you get no commission for. Lots of unnecessary sales pressure. They expect you to be a cashier, bra expert, cleaner, back stock everything in one when it’s impossible for one person to do. It’s hard to focus when you constantly have an ear piece in your ear yelling about making sales and pressuring customers. Managers are very clingy and give you mixed directions on what work to perform so there’s no organization which makes it stressful when managers are telling you different things. Freebies are nice but they don’t pay the bills but it’s not worth the stress, lack of pay, and lack of really short shifts. They talk about inclusivity and kindness, but don’t preach what you don’t practice.

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