Everything you need to know: - Boutique Manager francesca's Employee Review

1.0
23 Sept 2017
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Pros

It's sad that this company is so greedy and abusive to it's employees because almost all the employees enjoy the customers and fashion

Cons

- This company's GREED is APPALLING - Extremely low wages. Lowest available in the retail industry. - No time and a half for employees working on HOLIDAYS - Horrible insurance. High premiums and deductibles for very minimal coverage. The LOWEST deductible is $1500 yearly & once you pay that you only get 80% coverage. - Zero work life balance. They will work you until the last drop of life has been squeezed from you. Because of the disgustingly low pay, turnover with this company is rampant. - Because of said turnover, the company is constantly forcing employees to travel to other stores with NO additional compensation. If you travel an extra 2 hours to cover another store, you get NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. - Once the company realized the federal salary law was not changing, they tacked on an additional mandatory 2 hours per week to already exhausted salaried managers. They are after all the free labor they can get - Moral is low amongst all the districts. Managers feel betrayed and taken advantage of, which they are. - Paid time off is laughable. 10 days for EVERYTHING (sick/vacation/holiday) - Mandatory SIX (6!) day work weeks for salaried store managers all holiday season - Strict scheduling policies prevent store managers from having even ONE weekend off without taking a paid day off. - District Managers must do a second interview for EVERY employee. You cannot hire a sales associate without the DM interviewing them. Because DM's are also busy and over worked, it can take over a week to get a time scheduled. A lot of great candidates move on to other retailers simply because they're able to instantly offer a position. - They are nickel and diming employees left and right to recover monies spent on new software. - Store goals have been doubled to ensure you cannot and will not ever bonus. Even if you're up 30% to LY, you'll get nothing. - Company is in total disarray and lacks communication and organization. They constantly send last minute emails demanding staff work outside of normal business hours for tasking days after the staff has received their schedule and planned their lives around it. More often than not, store managers will get stuck working the extra hours, which I suspect is the company's goal.

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5.0
26 May 2026
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Pros

Flexibility, great community, growth opportunities, supportive executives

Cons

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1.0
24 May 2026
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Pros

there are none, they suck

Cons

management... almost two years with no review and no raise. this was a district directive. very mean girl TOXIC, ego centric coming down from upper management. poorly run on all levels. we know that a company that is run like that, will fail! lol they are now out of business

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