Old Navy reviews

Since the inception of "Market Leaders" upper level field management has been completely uninvolved in their stores. They have NO idea what is happening and when they visit it is solely business and merchandising driven and there is NO focus on people. At ON if you want to be a person filling a position and not an individual running THEIR business you will fit right in because that is all they see you as, we do NOT have names. They put no value on their Managers and SCARE them into being afraid to make decisions for fear we will be fired. Someone was recently fired for leaving their keys unattended in a LOCKED office that only manager's have a key to, seriously..FIRED!! The whole point of Market Leaders was to un-layer the corporate ladder and make senior level leaders more accessible to the stores. Unfortunately, what the creation of Market Leaders really did for the business was lay off all the AWESOME District Managers and promote all the lower paid, unexperienced District Managers to save money. The company is being led by uneducated, inexperienced, University of Phoenix graduates that have the talent of a tea spoon and the managerial skills of a 8 year old baseball team captain.

-Extreme variability in weekly hours (one wee 0-4 hours, the next week 30 hours) -Managers play favorites -Managers are gossipy and catty -Forget about ever being on register (the easiest position) if you don't get an obscene amount of Old Navy Cards -High school drama due to the amount of employees who are in high school -Employees making everyone elses lives harder (Dumping clothes when they don't know where they go, hiding messes behind stacks of shirts) -The ridiculous sales that bring in so many people...forget about ever trying to get the store remotely presentable -The fact that management expects the store to look pristine. Sorry I can't keep up with the rude customers ruining the neat piles of shirts I just made. Sometimes I felt like I folded the same table for my entire shift. -Working in the fitting room -Treatment by management. For example, I got called in at 6 am the day after Christmas because we were going to be "busy". When I got there I was told to clean the bathrooms even though we had a janitor on staff. -Management acts as though their employees are incompetent -Ridiculously rude customers who have no problem screaming at you -Customers constantly misread signs so you have to take time out to check the sign (even though you already know the item isn't on sale) only to find the item isn't on sale and to have the customer yell at you about the "false advertising" -Screaming children, bratty children, parents who refuse to control their children and think you also function as a babysitter