David's Bridal reviews

Managers do not treat all employees equally. There is no room for advancement. The job is a lot of hard work. You are constantly on your feet and might get a 30 min lunch break if you are lucky. Commission can be hard to meet. If you don't make commission, you are getting paid $7.50/hr and you are lucky if you get 29 hours in one week. Many times you are sent to clean up or make follow up phone calls, while other consultants are given customers. You are expected to dress and undress brides, clean up your mess as well as everyone else's. You are never able to get off work on time according to the schedule, you will always end up working at least one hour over. They are understanding with seasoned consultants and their personal lives, but not with new hires. Managers will say that no employees are allowed to take off on Saturdays but seasoned consultants never have a problem getting the weekends off.

All of the previous reviews said all that was needed about the commission scale, basically, doing my three weeks at David's Bridal, it's something that it seems everyone avoided talking about. The pay is only essentially minimum wage, but doing the interview they will make it seem as if as a seasonal part-time employee the options are endless...don't believe it. The staff just seemed drained when I came on board, and most of them had been there for years and it still seemed as if they were just going with the flow and had not neccessary mastered the position. It is ALOT of work, and I am by no means lazy, but I just can't see myself cleaning dresses and bras, carrying heavy dresses back and forth, doing unneccessary paperwork, cleaning the store, helping brides dress and undress, then clean up the disaster they leave behind all for 7.50/hr. I have worked in management positions in retail, that payed more, and I have had less responsibilities a day. When I was hired, the store was going through changes, and it seemed that the new manager wanted to implement new successful ways in which to operate, but at the manadatory meeting we had, with most people everything she talked about went in one ear and out the other. I felt as if I could effectively communicate with only one manager there, the other's seemed as if they didnt really like me. The batch of new girls I got hired with will agree that we were just thrown out there with no real training, so half the time I had no clue what I was doing, and when some one corrected me they wouldnt explain anything, they just took over. There was one manager that persdonally saw to it that I took it most of the worklaod before I left. I feel as if everyone should put their own merchandise away, none of us are children, so there is no reason why we can't put or own things away. All and all, I pretty much felt like a slave, doing the grunt work for the Consultant I was supposed to be "shadowing", it Just isn't a great company, I didn't like the customer base, the staff or more than half of the management. The company needs a major overall, but after just three short weeks I decided that I wasn't going to stick around to see if it would suffice. If you are reading this becasue you are considering a job with the company PLEASE take my advice and look elsewhere.