Worst job I've ever had - Sales Associate Tillys Employee Review

2.0
May 7, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great store, has a very wide variety of name brand clothes, and also their brand "Full Tilt" the music is great and the employees are all very nice and helpful (at least at my store)

Cons

HORRIBLE communication between management and sales associates! There is NO structure in the scheduling whatsoever. You're lucky to get 4.5-9 hours a week working here, they hire a ton of employees and then only give them a few hours so they'll spend their entire paycheck at their store. You only get a 20% discount so it doesn't take much to spend a $100 (give or take) check since everything is overpriced anyways minus the shoes and the Levis (no discount on Levis). The managers expect you to have "excellent" product knowledge and to know where everything in the store is but they don't give enough hours for anyone to really know much since they move stuff around in the store every week. You're NEVER acknowledged if you're doing a good job with sales, but if your ADS (average dollar sale) is a little bit down then you get yelled at to get it up higher. There seems to be no advancement opportunities at all to top it off, so even if you're doing an exceptional job, you're still going to get paid $8.00 per hour (min wage in California) and most likely won't be up for any promotions anytime soon. Why should we work SO hard on doing a good job and boosting sales and our ADS when there's no advancement opportunities or much chance of getting a raise? I would NOT recommend working here to ANYONE. It's not even worth the gas it would take you to drive to work.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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