Waste of my talent and time - In Store Visual Merchandiser Tillys Employee Review

2.0
Aug 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I was the in store merchandiser and it was fun to have the freedom to merchandise the entire store. This is a great position if you like styling mannequins and driving sales through merchandising the displays.

Cons

The management is terrible. Rude on a daily basis. When I would ask questions I would get an eye roll. My regional visual manager was a horrible person, but she was probably just unhappy with her job and took it out on the store team. I felt demoralized throughout the 3 months I worked there by in store management and district management. I witnessed associates gossiping and bullying other associates and when I brought it to managements attention I was told to mind my business. The pay was bad and the horrible management could not motivate the team to do an adequate job. Often I had to remerch the store and recover as I went because the closing team would get lazy and leave it for me. The discount was a joke, I felt like I couldn't afford the stuff I was selling.

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Pros

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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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