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Pacific Sunwear

Is this your company?

The fish rots from the head down - Anonymous employee Pacific Sunwear Employee Review

1.0
Jun 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The cafeteria is actually quite nice, they keep a good variety of options.

Cons

Spend a month inside this place and it will become very clear why the stock price is so low (currently $1.18). The product people are given free reign to run every aspect of the business, effecting everything from allocation of development resources to the agency the marketing team contracts with. Nor do they wield this responsibility with any sense of humility, immediately resorting to foot-stomping and superior-emailing at the first sign of disagreement. This is why anyone with any actual talent has headed for the door and the only ones left are those that, at best, don't care and at worst, are too incompetent to find work elsewhere. It pleases me to no end that they again have to resort to layoffs, however there is no chance that the people who will be laid off will be the ones who are currently bringing the company down. That starts at the top, as the one empowering the small army of Napoleons on the 3rd floor is none other than Gary himself, whom the board stupefyingly continues to employ despite the painfully obvious lack of business acumen. 12 quarters of positive same-store sales? Neat trick Gar, just shutter the under-performers so they're no longer used in the comp. And while we're at it, let's let the ecommerce business wither and die, since the retail business generates more revenue. It's not like your demo spends any time on the internet... It's no wonder Urban is eating their lunch. Under this man's direction, you're seeing the last years of Pacific Sunwear as a company. My advice to them is not to bother updating the signage that's still on stores from 3 logos ago. They're all destined to be replaced with "Zumiez" anyway.

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