Good workspace and colleagues, bad management - Retail Sales Associate Vans Employee Review

4.0
May 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- friendly environment and colleagues - discounts on all of the products - young people of similar backgrounds make this a very easy going and fun job

Cons

- bad branch management, seemingly doing what they want while ignoring the company's philosophy - stay on their good side and you're good, cross that line and you're out of there in no time

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Depending on District/Store great culture. Awesome discounts and bonus incentives for full time management. Relatively lenient on being able to use your discretion with difficult customers, "What Would Van Doren Do?" - basically make the customer happy reasonably. Great position to learn retail and people management in - applied itself to any career field later on.

Cons

Job Security (retail and working in malls in today's landscape can be tough depending on location). Corporate can be corporate sometimes, DMs or RMs pushing unreasonable and ridiculous selling behaviors sometimes.

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