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4.0
Sep 14, 2012

Practice what you preach

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Pros

Competitive compensation and benefits package Nice discount

Cons

Non competitive pay for hourly associates A lot of repetitive marketing changes that require a lot of time with little payroll support A lot of visual changes that require a lot of time with little payroll support

3.0
Sep 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The managers attitudes, and other co-workers were overall great to work with. Managers did their best to help in sticky situations, (helping with rude, unhappy customers), and very open to questions. Associate discount was okay, but not frequent enough. The atmosphere could be lively and fun at times.

Cons

Pay for hard working associates is unacceptably LOW. There were a few lazy (usually new, but not always) associates that made others pick up their slack. They also need to concentrate on training. In my second year, I still didn't know all of the in's and out's due to lack of follow-up or explanation. The new program that Express got slammed with is TOO MUCH to expect bare minimum wage workers to keep up with. There were already, email, cc rewards, and express cash coupons, plus a credit card to mention, and on top of that they add EXPRESS NEXT?! All of this was expected to usually be taken care of, if not mentioned in EVERY transaction. Ridiculous. Even the customers would feel hassled and irritated 90% of the time, and always confused. Not the way to cater to customer service in my opinion. I would also like to mention that their REGISTERS ARE ANCIENT. It was frustrating to deal with an angry customer because of a lagging and broke down computer, only being able to wait it out. All of this left me not feeling like I was compensated for the work that was expected of me. I left feeling disappointed and deflated.

2.0
Sep 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people I worked with were amazing, but of course Express has a high employee turnover rate so I got stuck working with other people that I disliked as well. I really liked upselling to my customers because I liked the clothes and knew it well..

Cons

The pay is not good. It's minimum wage and I believe it should have been higher. I also think Express, at least in its retail stores, has bad company culture. Didn't like it at all, and I would never want to do corporate.

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