Pros
Where do I begin? Believe all the bad reviews! This is a great workplace for entry-level employees if you want some experience in sportswear/retail sales, but once you reach a year and get promoted, run for the hills! The pay is below industry standard and the benefits are horrible. - You will make some great friends because you bond over the misery. - The owners really do care about the business and are generally nice people, so if you can get to know them it will make a difference. -You get decent discounts and can travel to corporate offices
Cons
-A lot of inexperienced staff due to hiring young employees straight out of college and never giving proper training. I worked with one sales exec whose sole purpose was to do as minimal of work as possible and take all the credit for the work by the associates on her team. There is a culture of overpromising and under delivering. Managers love to pile more projects onto associates without being realistic of how time-consuming something really is. Depending on who you report you, you are expected to work all hours of the day. -Employee retention is a joke, there are at least three people quitting monthly; Haddad is a small office, maybe 200 people total, so that says a lot. The turnover causes people to get promotions without the proper skills to run their department or manage a team. - There is a culture of pass-the-buck and a blame game attitude across teams. People don’t know how to work together and everything is done in silos.