My first and least favorite job - Sales Specialist Victoria's Secret Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Discounts, free products, pretty mindless, easy sales if you are a halfway attractive woman who can speak clearly, appears glamorous to the post teenage girl

Cons

I worked here during my summers at home during college, on top of completing unpaid internships when I wasn't working (ugh). My third summer, I ended up quitting VS because my manager was so incompetent at scheduling me- all i asked for was nights T, W, R, and weekends. The training was a joke- you have to know everything about these products (luckily, I'd been shopping here since I was 12 so it was a breeze) or you'll be an awful salesperson. I felt horrible being forced to ask people who barely spoke English to open a credit account- on several occasions I helped women open accounts who clearly had no idea what they were getting into. The manager stood behind me and praised me for closing the deal so quickly. CREDIT = UNETHICAL. Also, tons of shrink. TONS. We were hit by so many shoplifters... oh, and it's pretty embarrassing and inconvenient to have to be walked out by a manager after your shift, who then rummages through your bags. What is the world coming to?

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Cons

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1.0
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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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