-A business model that guarantees staff will be overworked and customers will be under-served. Your consultants will assist two customers at a time, in back to back appointments for their entire shift.
-Employee turnover (largely due to job dissatisfaction) is astronomically high in a business that requires a knowledgeable store team to properly serve the customer.
-Sloppy top-down operational execution (largely due to a less-than-knowledgeable store team) resulting in furious or devastated brides who don't get what they believe they've paid for - you can look forward to talking to several of these customers daily, we call them TLC or CSI (customer service issue) brides.
-You can also look forward to delivering AND receiving more Corrective Action Documentation at David's Bridal than you have in every other job you've had, combined, times two, squared.
-Be prepared to have any and all prior leadership experience utterly disregarded. "It's different here." It sure is.
-Go in knowing that the only recognition you will receive is on your paycheck. The culture here actively discourages thanking any member of the team for doing their job well.