Uniqlo reviews

As said before, the pay is impressive but only at first glance. Once you realize that Uniqlo expects managers to do the job of running the store PLUS corporate work (allocating product, deciding layout, covering costs in store), you understand that you’re being underpaid and overworked. There tends to be rampant favoritism (not uncommon in any workplace), that allows those who conform to the company’s insanely strict policies and toxic culture to move up but only after they’ve begged for the opportunity for anywhere from 1-5 years. There’s people throughout the company who waited literally 10 years to get to a store manager position. The work life balance concept is nonexistent, and putting your personal life before the store is a guaranteed way to kill any successful future with the company. There is also a serious problem with constantly providing thinly veiled and harsh criticism as “feedback” that simply demotivates everyone from striving to do better. *If you’re reading this as a prospective UMC (Uniqlo Management Candidate), save yourself and TURN IT DOWN. The experience will almost certainly not be worth the mental and emotional toll the job will put on you, and the vast majority of all UMCs quit the minute their contract is up.

Training. I don’t think they have a set training plan for new hires. They put us on the floor on the first few hours... completely knowing nothing about what to do and what to say. I feel like they were just throwing us to the wolves to see who survives. For a very understaffed branch, I feel like they should have had a good enough training plan so that new hires actually do get to learn the job properly. It’s totally not for everyone, I get that but you can’t just put people on the sales floor and expect them to know what to do right off the bat. They’ll just tell you to ask whoever is working in the zone on what to do and how to do things. They’re nice enough to help but there are times that I feel like we should have been trained more by the actual trainers than rely on veteran employees. It’s a waste of all our times and the exposure we get early on would definitely discourage 60% of the new hires. The employee handbook will tell you that overtime is bad and you shouldn’t do overtime but if you’re closing, overtime is expected of you and you can’t say no. Japanese values are great and admirable but you can’t always translate those values to the American way of life. You have to appropriate things as you see fit, not jam a value-system and tradition to virtually another place entirely different from your own because at the end of the day, they are just clothes.