Overworked, way underpaid - Sales Associate Victoria's Secret Employee Review

2.0
Aug 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Offers paid management training program. Store associates and management are generally very nice and easy and fun to work with. "Gratis" or free or reduced price merchandise are excellent perk.

Cons

After a 20 year professional career in PR, advertising, etc., I cannot believe how much VS expects of its employees for $7.47 an hour!!! You are forced to stay several hours past your shift at times to clean after closing and/or complete floor sets. Management is selfish; they care only about reaching their sales goals each segment at all costs and will hound employees to be pushy to get this done. Many of their sales policies would make me run quickly if I were a customer.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Sudden Return to Work mandate 3 days in NY or OH SIX years after COVID. Any current employees outside of those states are being let go if they don’t uproot their lives and relocate. Many employees in those states built their lives around what seemed to be a permanent remote flexibility arrangement (most companies went back in 23). When Hillary Super came on she even stated in one of her first Q&A’s on remote work that where people do their jobs wasn’t a big concern for her as long as we continued to drive the business forward. The business is doing the best it ever has in the last five years. Leadership reasoning for mandate is continuing to fall flat. Mandate came absolutely out of NOWHERE.

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