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Seattle Sun Tan Reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)
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Scott Swerland

65% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Seattle Sun Tan has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Seattle Sun Tan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal consumer services industry (3.6 stars).

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62 reviews
2.0
22 Jan 2020

Not worth it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free tanning, product discounts, loose dress code, build sales experience

Cons

Very young staff so a lot of issues with immaturity. High turnover rate because the hours are inconsistent and the pay is not great. Good, flexible job for a young student and nothing above that. Management is terrible, always engaging in gossip and causing problems.

2.0
22 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

CAN be flexible in scheduling.

Cons

Oh boy, where do I start? Management is super shady and will step in front of you to steal sales, you're judged on the way you look. Management talks crap about you with other employees. If you don't meet sales for the week you can go from a 40 hr work week to a 16 hour work week. Never steady hours.

1.0
22 Jan 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free tanning, supportive coworkers who know management is NOT a resource and we looked out for each other

Cons

Crap really flows downhill at this company and stress is put on the sales people to achieve goals without given the tools to do so. "Management" are a bunch of people who have just graduated high school and don't really have any skills. Being explicitly told to LIE to customers if asked about commission. EVERY single person works on commission at this company. When you're lying to a customer, you know you're doing something wrong. Being explicitly told to never say the word "burn" (it's "overexpose") or "orange". A company policy that goes against common sense is never good either: A customer must tell you "no" three times before you stop trying to sell to them and just put them in the bed with the services they've already paid for. Communication between stores and corporate is a joke. Sales doesn't even know about promos until customers come in with the email blasts. This explains why there are so many "mistakes" and "free tans" to make up for them. Chaos and disorganization is rampant. Poor communication leads to people just passing on a problem to someone else and mentally checking out of the job. It's extremely difficult to provide professional customer service when there is no CRM software. My store used sticky notes to communicate about customer problems, which no one would handle because it didn't make them commission. It was embarrassing to be a part of.

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