Vans reviews

Pay was far too low, but not the worst I've seen in retail. Things changed on a dime, company layoffs, quick marketing changes with little to no notice/no materials or support for it. Major lack in labor support as well: high amount of freight with no hours to get it done, reprimanded for being off the floor or overusing labor to get it all done, often falling behind timelines and floorset execution because of that with no empathy or understanding from upper management. High expectation selling culture with low or no incentive (no commission, but top performers got better discounts). Vans was/is suffering financially and made a lot of cuts to things that are crucial for store teams to flourish: technology, leadership conference opportunity, labor again.

The problem is almost everything else. The work load is either literally nothing to do one week and then ridiculously over worked the next few you are expected to work consul markdowns and shipment all while helping customers and running drag. The pay is not very good especially not for the work load we are given. We have a horrible SM who is constantly lying to our DM and does nothing but sit all day. And as a Sales Lead I am expected to be available weekends and three weekdays a week but only given 15 hours tops and am now having my job threatened because I had to take a second job just to make ends meet. It’s quite frankly ridiculous. I thought vans would be a company I could be proud of. But it turns out it’s all corporate and doesn’t actually stand for the authenticity and diversity that it claims.