Athleta reviews

Little to no work/life balance. 9 hour shifts because of unpaid one hour meal break, just make it 8 hours paid. Always made to feel guilty when requesting time off or holidays off to be with family. Hourly employees, including full time managers, receive little to no recognition for their hard work. Company wasted money to host all employees who are General Managers and above to go to Las Vegas for five days this past spring but then let go of 1800 employees. Maybe use that money to have a higher starting wage and then we wouldn’t have to operate our stores with only two people for upwards of 6 hours.

Organization is extremely disorganized, with multiple "priorities" coinciding at the same time. Priority should = 1, not 8 different things of "equal" importance. You will stall at Store General Manager level if you don't brown-nose and use all the Athleta positivity verbiage. The customers are extremely entitled and only got worse during the pandemic; HQ and field leaders will not support you even if customers make you feel unsafe and unvalued.