Used to love it, Trudi turned it to HELL!!!! - Store Manager Talbots Employee Review

3.0
Sep 30, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Clothing Discount - Meet Great People (Employees & Customers) - Benefit Package (That was in place 2009 and prior)

Cons

- CUT, CUT, CUT thats all we were hearing - If you don't make target 3 months in a row, we had to let you go - Managers kill themselves to do "Brand Moments" (floor moves) with very little help and or time - Upper Management expects you to be able to respond to their dim witted immediate floor changes immediately... like 5 min after walking in to the store. EVEN after we were told to not come in more than 30 min. before store openenig. - The restructuring of Districts & DM's- put dedicated people (my mentors) out of work... and put incompetent "Hitler-esque" people in their place. - No matter if you were a store producing TOP RESULTS.... you still had to cut sales & support hours. -

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

None. This company is garbage compared to how it used to be.

Cons

Slave wages, not enough hours for anyone except management because the private equity company that owns us has cut our staff to a skeleton crew even on busy days. Management and associate alike are stretched super thin to the point of exhaustion. Even as a sales associate, there was a time I supported myself on a Talbots salary. Now I have to choose between paying my car insurance or getting an oil change. I used to get 30+ hours a week even as a sales associate. Now I'm lucky if I get 20. Health benefits are a rip-off. The company in my observation has had a time finding and maintaining good workers. If you value your livelihood, run fast and run far.

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