JoS. A. Bank reviews

To many to mention. Worst turnover in retail - Numerous stores have 100-200+% turnover annually. Some stores have had to hire homeless people just to keep the doors open. Some stores went through Christmas with only one manager total in the building. Other stores with only two managers and that's with the stores being open @ 100+ hours a week. Worst President in retail who gets a $2 million dollar bonus on top of his $2 million dollar salary all while intentionally making it impossible for the employees in stores to make commission... so they can only make minimum wage, at $7.25 an hour basically the entire year with very few chances to add pennies onto their paycheck when they do make commission. As well as intentionally finding last second reasons to not pay out bonuses. Haven't given out raises in years. Even though they have enough money to continue to attempt to buy other retailers (1-2 billion dollar transactions), spend $300+ million on advertising annually, and have opened up 150+ stores in the last 4-5 years. Worst HR Dept. in retail - completely clueless, overwhelmed, insane, negative, little follow up, knee jerk reactions concerning last second decisions, on top of having zero idea how stores actually operate... all while having no compassion. Product either stays the same or gets worse every year. Sales are ridiculous. Often having as many as 3-4 sales going on at the same time. I've seen the same suit at four different price points. Try explaining that to a customer... "uhhh... Yes Sir, yesterday it was this price. But today it's this price online... buy 1 get 3 it is going to be this price... the daily special is this price for one... and if you buy 2 you can take $25 off each one for a total of $600 before tax and alterations. Can I sale you some shirts and ties? Hey! ... uh... um... where are you going?!?". No point in even going through all that because Catalog under bids the stores on purpose to keep store associates from having to pay out commission to employees in stores. Policies change... then change again... then go back to what they were. Then change again. And get ready... will be completely different tomorrow if it's convenient for Corporate. Phone calls are a joke. Customers hate them. Employees hate making them (sometimes hundreds a day). You end up calling the same customer 2-3 times a month. We have shop lifters who come into our stores regularly... due to the stores being under staffed or having to come in at 180 hours a week. Tuxedo is on its 3rd... 4th roll out?!? Worst roll out in retail history, period. Often not working and often ruining weddings. Involves tremendous communication between stores, Jim's Formal Wear, Corporate, RSD, Groom and Bride, Wedding party in other states, and fellow associates. 90% rule... you better be selling and not renting tuxedo's or you will fall under the 90% rule.. and get fired. If you try to mention something that will help your store or complain about something... it doesn't get past your Regional Vice President. All this for $7.25 an hour. Criminal, un-moral, worst company I've ever worked for.

Well, where do I start? Company refuses to give raises, No matter how good of an employee you are, they tell you to sell more and expect you to turn a profit when the sales make it impossible to do so. Commission rate should be changed for buy one get two sales. 12 hour mandatory shifts during the holidays. We are threatened when a single complaint is made, then threatened when we do what we need to do to avoid a customer complaint. Everything we do is seen as lose/lose by corporate. Because of the platinum service standard, we are forced to return worn and soiled clothing, then lose our bonus because those items need to be damaged out. People were fired for not coming into work when the roads were closed due to severe weather conditions...I can go on and on.....