Two years down the drain - Sales Associate Tillys Employee Review

2.0
Sep 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

laid back environment, moderate dress code, strong focus on customer service in store, you learn how to create customer connections and will meet loyal customers. Awesome focus in visual merchandising as well as on the job training, and steady hours during peak season as well as steady hours for workload teams if dedicated (shipment, visuals, transfers, markdowns, etc)

Cons

No values whatsoever. The managers can be completely biased as well as extremely unfair. Some employees get considered "favorites" and in the good graces of management you can expect to have steady and long hours. For those of us that went to school, our manager would get furious when we would have to leave for class, or couldn't come in because we were scheduled during our class time. She never followed our written availability so be sure to take pictures if your manager is this way because I guarantee your documents will "get lost" or someone will claim to "not have seen them." Not a great place to work if you're a single parent, because your childs needs will never be important enough to come before the needs of the business. If you work hard and management notices you may be considered for a promotion, but only as a verbal promise, no actual follow through. You will be required to do more work than what is worth your pay. Terrible floor management as well as short staffed for the location. Minimal coverage on peak days leaving the whole team crippled and causing workload team to shift from shipment responsibilities, to selling time in order to fit the needs of traffic

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- Upper management did not have equal expectations of stores/ lacked clear communication -PAY, they will pay someone who is hired external far more then they ever will an internal. Doesn’t matter how long you’re there. I was trained from a seasonal, all the way up and made far less than newer peers. They do not see as much value in internals which is so unfortunate for them. Did my 8 years and have a lot of resentment over this.

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