Salaire bas, charge de travail élevée - Avis employé Part Time Sales Associate COS

Flexible schedule, nice coworkers, would recommend to people new to retail because of the slower pace

Management can be passive aggressive but that’s specific managers

The clothes are cute and when your coworkers aren’t shiftless outside of work, the environment itself can be great! The clients are what make the brand, truly. Stacking employee discounts on sale items is nice since the price of the clothes keeps going up. They just started hiring more black store managers (yay!) Lets see more of work it’s way up the corporate latter where it really counts ;)

This company consistently undervalues its people, and the dysfunction starts at the area team level. Leadership relies heavily on triangulation and back-channeling rather than direct, transparent communication, which creates confusion and erodes trust across already stretched management teams. The culture of feedback here is almost entirely critical, delivered condescendingly, and rarely constructive. Managers operate in a climate of fear: last-minute, unreasonable deadlines are issued without any acknowledgment of the company’s own chronic turnover problem. Threats of documentation and termination are used casually as a control tactic, which creates a genuinely toxic environment - especially for anyone prone to anxiety. There’s a fundamental operational disconnect: 3-level stores are held to the same performance standards as 1-level stores, with no meaningful adjustment for complexity or scale. Leadership at multiple levels seems to confuse standoffishness and constant criticism with authority. The result is predictable: turnover is extremely high because the environment isn’t one where people feel led, supported, or valued. When you think you have found such a person, you will promptly be proven wrong. The area team actively encourages gossip, and that filters down into how politics are played with store-level management. Too often, people in leadership will talk around you rather than taking real steps to set you up for success. Compounding this, the company is hiring managers who are too inexperienced in clothing based retail to recognize these patterns for what they are. Your success here depends almost entirely on having a strong store manager who isn’t willing to conform to the broader culture. Without that, you’re on your own. Finally: the pressure around numbers is relentless, but product supply consistently fails to meet demand and there are rarely meaningful solutions offered for the recurring operational gaps that directly impact the performance metrics everyone is held accountable for.