Bath & Body Works reviews

Low salary for starting associates. Reviews are only done once a year. If you start less than ninty days before the review you are bumped to the next review in January.

the structure in the selling technique is good in theory but is heavily enforced by corporate and it rolls downhill. The DM is hard on the SM. The SM is hard on the CM's who are hard on the SL's who are hard on the associates. I know the associates get frustrated with this sometimes, because actually putting the methods into practice is not as easy as the high ups in corporate make it seem. If it is dealt with in a positive manner, the store could greatly benefit from it, but if one in the downline uses more of a condescending, lecturing tone, then that rolls down hill as well and you get unhappy management and associates. The tone in my store has gotten increasingly hostile in the past couple months, making it hard to enjoy my time there. The higher management doesn't realize that I am a younger Manager. I am still in college and would like to enjoy my summer with my friends, but any time I do, I get pulled aside and told to put the company first.