Something Needs To Change - Sales Lead Vans Employee Review

3.0
Oct 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My coworkers are for the most part great the Assistant Manager is amazing and the customers are mostly pretty cool! And the employee discount is great.

Cons

The problem is almost everything else. The work load is either literally nothing to do one week and then ridiculously over worked the next few you are expected to work consul markdowns and shipment all while helping customers and running drag. The pay is not very good especially not for the work load we are given. We have a horrible SM who is constantly lying to our DM and does nothing but sit all day. And as a Sales Lead I am expected to be available weekends and three weekdays a week but only given 15 hours tops and am now having my job threatened because I had to take a second job just to make ends meet. It’s quite frankly ridiculous. I thought vans would be a company I could be proud of. But it turns out it’s all corporate and doesn’t actually stand for the authenticity and diversity that it claims.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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