I knew it was a bad sign when they spelled the job title wrong on my offer letter. I knew it was an even worse sign when the most meaningful conversation I had with my “boss” was about SpongeBob (YES…the cartoon I haven’t seen in over a decade that they love to watch)…but I knew something was NOT right when I was told one week in that I was the THIRD person to have my job in 3 months.
With one month in there were weekly “going away parties” as in people quitting. In the lingerie industry this company is known as a revolving door and I thought I could maybe help change it but it’s absolutely a lost cause. The whole company is off balance. Most people show up whenever they feel like it and others are stuck staying late every single day and doing menial tasks that modern technology usually does because they have “processes” from the 90’s they have never changed. Lunch breaks do not exist and you ARE NOT allowed to wear jeans-ever…which is the opposite of big corporations and a VERY outdated dress code.
Having everyone dressed up 24/7 is an awkward illusion that everything is luxurious and in order, when being in the company you find mostly everyone to be new, inexperienced, very unprofessional, with tacky taste levels. The office is so small and messy on the second floor you will overhear people talking trash about each other, over trash.
It’s a fine place to start a job if you are directly out of college but if you need one but don’t stay too long and pick up their bad habits. For those who are mid to senior in your career…stay away, you have nothing to gain if you have worked for a serious, modern company before. This place is a career killer that makes everything difficult, miserable, and frustrating.