Not what I expected - Sales Support Associate Tory Burch Employee Review

2.0
Nov 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

40% discount, nice looking store, some 60% weekends

Cons

I was a sales support associate at a Tory Burch store. When I got the job, I was told that I was going to be a "jack of all trades," doing a bunch of different things on the floor and OCCASIONALLY in the back room. This was a lie. I was a slave in the back room, bringing out products to the sales associates who just stood all fancy in their head-to-toe Tory Burch outfits on the floor. I did all of the work for them and they were making the commission. This is why I lasted 3 months. They made me take out the trash every night, even when I was in the middle of something, because they thought they were just too good to do it themselves. I had nothing to do with the sales or the customers. I worked my butt off in the back room, opening shipments and lifting heavy boxes and organizing products on shelves. I was hired as a SALES SUPPORT associate, not a stock associate...or should I say slave.

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