If you like to be gaslit, come work here! - Manager Talbots Employee Review

1.0
Dec 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Clients are mostly nice, so are coworkers. Work life balance is decent.

Cons

My direct supervisor gaslights me daily, as if I’m dumb. Also, she makes my job ten times harder because she doesn’t know how to do anything correctly. Literally have to clean up all of her messes. Currently looking for a new job. So tired of her nonsense, being belittled and demeaned. Ps. I’m the only one working like a dog to make this place run properly. It’s like a circus in the store with 0 reprimanding and 0 training. I pity whoever takes my spot when I put in my notice!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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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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