depends on management greatly - Anonymous employee Tillys Employee Review

2.0
Dec 12, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

you can make alot of cool friends and your introduced to cute (cheap/expensive) clothes. durring the winter/ summer season you get pretty good hours.

Cons

durring the other seasons you will not get any hours, 4 hours a week. then they expect you to get more product knowledge but its like you dont pay us enough for it. it really depends on management though. i have 4 managers and 2 out them do not do anything but stand in the middle of the store and tell you to work harder/faster. they put heavly unessary work load on you, tillys 6 steps, 10-20 enter to wins, recover your section perfectly, and to meet all sales goals. it really depends on management because they can make it unbearable. defidently favoritisms with managers where you will get written up for something that a friend of the manager can get away with. most unbearable thing is is when manager calls thier employees stupid/ idiot it they leave something out. any little detail who you will get written up for.

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Cons

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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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