Micromanagement - Assistant Store Manager Chico's FAS Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Chico's is a fun place to work and I liked the fact that I could make extra money based on the size of my sales. I feel like they really took the time to show you how to increase the size of your sales too, they didn't just expect you to have to figure it out on your own.

Cons

The training went a little too far and became micromanagement like I've never seen!! Our sales plans are higher this year (2009) than they were last year, in this economy!?!? Lack of specific guidelines (on things like returns) leads to a lot of grey area. If you get a single customer complaint you are written up, which on the one hand makes sense, but at the same time, people can complain about anything. The amount of phone calls made to customers also made me uncomfortable. Many of the customers appreciated this special attention, but most found it intrusive.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

The pettiness The bad mouthing of current employees or past employees, if the manager was talking about them I am sure she was talking about me Manager gave out her phone number to all employees to contact by text or calls, when I had to text her , her reply back was condescending and not to pleasant. I got an apology the next day. She knew she was wrong She got a bad review because she did not present herself in a positve way when helping a customer, she talked about the previous management I had an upcoming date that I needed off and she knew but she scheduled me for that day anyway I was told there was a review about me apologizing to much? That was a lie, I looked at all the reviews none about me but she had a negative one about her I only apologized to my customers if we did not have a product or we did not fit their expectations Yes I did apologize to some employees, I was in training and learning. Im sure it was the fellow coworkers that complained I do have problems with my right foot and at the moment my nice pair of nikes was providing more comfort to my feet, and was told I needed a drs note? But another employee who his younger was wearing very dirty tennis shoes, not a good look if they a noticably dirty Not good training, barely had any

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