Oroton Reviews

3.1

55% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)

50% positive business outlook

Oroton has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oroton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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78 reviews
1.0
3 Feb 2018

Only apply if you’re desperate!

Recommend
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Pros

- They spare no expense for meetings (food mainly). - Luxury brands means better pay. - 50% discount on all bags except limited edition.

Cons

- Regular meetings (all the darn time). - Emails every hour that are full of fake motivational crap, data, and actions that would require quick responses regardless of if you were busy. - The bags aren’t high quality so the return rate is HIGH. - Training for staff needs to be done/updated/monitored using three different sheets that require both the person getting trained and yourself to help fill in, these need to be completed weekly regardless of how little the casuals work. - Management don’t believe in honesty, they prefer to veil their critique behind fake positivity. - Management can change what they say, if you’re psychic this will help! - Management put too much pressure on everyone when it comes down to a brand that has no direction, constantly fails and has tacky designs. - Promises of career progression, never delivered or discussed. - Everyone in the company is as plain as a piece of bread, hardly no personality and boring. They were all made in a factory. There is no inspiration, creativity, and anything out of their realm of “normal” is not accepted.

2.0
23 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The relationships built with coworkers are often close and long-lasting. The company has done a good job of inspiring regional/cluster managers. The staff discount is good, which is normally 50% off and 60% off for limited times. The company has recently become more trusting of your judgement for decisions such as extending time for returns and transferring stock between stores. The new Creative Director, Sophie Holt, has created the best designs Oroton has had in the past decade. This makes selling the product much easier. Most managers have been understanding and accommodating of work/life balance with flexible rosters.

Cons

Minimum wage, no cash bonus. The company only pays for the hours that the store is open, meaning time taken to open and close are not paid. They are also reluctant to pay overtime even if the extra hours you worked were necessary, sometimes only paying half of the overtime or not at all. All managers have mentioned that their salary is very low in comparison to other similar companies. The incentive is unrewarding, in which we receive an Oroton giftcard if the entire store reaches the monthly sales target. This is usually only achieved 15% of the time for smaller stores and 35-50% of the time for larger stores. Gift cards generally range from $20-$50. They constantly push employees to reach many different KPI targets. Even though these are tracked there is no reward for individual performance, which can be incredibly frustrating. Reports need to be submitted weekly which are time-consuming and useless for staff to fill out as the same numbers can be accessed remotely in the system. The POS system experiences many IT issues that have been reoccurring for at least 3 years. This sometimes leaves staff unable to process sales or end the day properly. Management sometimes come up with ridiculous ideas like sending customers personalised after-sales emails to follow up on their purchase, let them know of any promotions and/or suggest other items. They believe that it will give the customer a "luxury" experience but lack the foresight to understand that it is annoying, particularly because these customers never agreed to receive these emails. There is little to no room for career opportunities, which has resulted in at least 6 different managers/assistant managers I've personally known to leave.

3.0
26 Nov 2017

Hard work not appreciated

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great discounts and great product. You are able to build relationships with customers.

Cons

Very controlling managers, they tell you how to have your, how much makeup you have to wear and how to do your hair and nails.

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