J. Crew reviews

Low pay for monotonous, boring work. Spent 7 - 9 hours in a fitting room or at the front entrance folding the same piles of shirts over and over. Previously worked as a visual merchandiser for another retailer and had several years of both merchandising and management experience and was paid far less than what the other company paid. Other employees did not help to maintain store appearance during opening hours and store, despite small size, would be trashed by the end of the day. Often stayed an hour later than scheduled cleaning store after closing. Managers promoted favorites rather than those who worked hardest and managers themselves spent most of the day chit chatting and pretending to work.

- The exclusions and number of individual sales and discounts can become dizzying and confusing for both customers and associates. - Because the sales and combinations of promotions are somewhat hazy, customers can become frustrated with associates about final pricing of some of the clothes because they believe that certain things should combine when we are not allowed to combine them. (Usually, some associate in the past may have combined some discount that they shouldn't have due to the confusion of what does and does not combine and now that customer expects that to happen at every transaction.