Windsor Fashions reviews

Working retail hours, benefits need to be a lot better, pay needs to be higher to match other companies, vacation could be higher, and work-life balance would be nice for the majority of employees. Small room for growth once you are co-mgr or higher. Dress code expectations are high and you may lose staff from it. They want you to maintain high visual standards but visual will come in and not do much and then complain your store is not an A+. Finding great staff is a challenge. KPIs standards can be tough to meet during slower periods but some are easy during peak seasons. You can’t leave the store if you are the only mgr and it gets tough when staff doesn’t show up, you won’t be able to go get food. Company could show more employee appreciation.

Too much work for minimum pay. We are expected to do so much every shift and our pay as managers is very little over that of a stylist (~$1-1.50 difference). DM does not care about employees and just cares about numbers/money the company is making. There have been multiple days where employees have had to stay from opening to closing because of staffing issues. The DM doesn’t allow closing early because they want to try to make sales for the day even if it’s a super busy day and the employees have been there for 10 hours. Tries to bribe employees to stay longer or go help at another location with Windsor gift cards. Schedule changes every week. Hours vary each week. One week you can get 35-40 hours and the next 30-32. (Full-time). Part-time coworkers get scheduled 1-3 days a week (5hrs-18hrs/week). Not much room to grow within the company once you become manager. It becomes much harder to rise. Constantly dealing with customers being upset with the sizes; we have a lot of people that shop for medium, large and X-Large and often receive complaints that we only have small sizes. Larger sizes sell out the fastest (Medium-X-Large) and those are the ones that we receive the least amount of items in shipment. (Example: we’ll receive the same top 3 XS, 6 Smalls, 3 Mediums and 2 Large). Black out dates; there are several periods in the year where you are unable to request days off due to expected high traffic seasons (ex: Prom season; homecoming; winter formal, etc.) This year our black out period is 3 months long from mid-October until January.