Unfair pay favors outside hires with comparable experience - Assistant Manager Vans Employee Review

1.0
Feb 24, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Good discount -Sweet coworkers -Free shoes sometimes

Cons

-No commission -Incentives are laughable and unfairly cater to high-volume locations only -Pay structure favors new outside hires over loyal employees because it doesn't adjust to inflation fast enough. Especially in management. There is a huge pay disparity where assistant managers at one location can make as much as store managers in another location in the same district.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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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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