Theory Reviews

This place is an absolute mess, I was so excited to start working there because of the name and clothes... until I actually started work. I was based out of their corporate offices in the Meatpacking District and I have never worked with a more juvenile group of people. A lot of backstabbing, lies, and obvious favoritism. The CEO Andrew Rosen needs to step down as he has no idea what direction he wants his brand to be. Clothes are severely overpriced with lack of quality, everything made in china, constant complaints from costumers about fit and clothes falling apart. Ridiculous turnaround, massive layoffs, everyone in fear of losing their job, negative work environment, and one of the worst HR departments I've ever seen. Horrible management as everyone has an opinion and things change so rapidly that it causes mass confusion within retail stores.

- A culture that can take top talent and deteriorate their mental health and well being. The way employees, more specifically management, are treated by corporate should be a crime. - Severe micromanagement by corporate; Authoritative environment - Unprofessional and inconsistent (moods) communication from HR, not supportive or honest with store teams; questionable behaviors and transparency of complaints brought to HR’s attention; proper investigations not performed, exit interviews are conducted and not used to improve. -HR employees share confidential information with Store Managers with whom are “close friends” - Corporate employees are disrespectful when visiting stores, making unprofessional and accusatory comments causing an impact to moral; store team members not wanting to work when corporate visits; store leadership has to pick up the pieces to this behavior and be held accountable when vocalizing corporates impact on the team - Corporate takes no ownership to their impact on stores to protect themselves: merchandising for allocation, logistics, inventory control; other executive roles that directly “supports” stores exhibit poor leadership and professionalism - Sub-par learning & development, green talent placed in corporate roles that heavily impact people & performance, adding additional workload to store leadership - The reassessment of the organizations headcount every 6 months adds unproductive distractions to retail field and a selfish mindset from corporate in the fear of losing their jobs - Incredibly large divide between stores and corporate, felt by most, vocalized by those not there anymore. Interesting, isn’t it? - Store leadership told they are accountable for turnover even when sharing it’s caused by Corporate employee behaviors - Company only cares about the numbers. Not the people. - Cannot trust the intentions of those who speak for you when you’re not part of the discussion -Those that stay become a product of this environment, ultimately changing who they are as an individual, allowing for this culture to be viewed as normal. It’s unhealthy, concerning and unethical.