David's Bridal reviews

David's Bridal really needs to get with the picture. Where do I even begin? Since leaving and starting at a competing business, I've seen how bridal sales should run. I've seen obtainable goals and a boat load of commission for doing a good job. Everyone who works in the bridal industry knows that there are very busy months, and months where we need to call prospects and drum up some business because they're so slow. Small bridal businesses change their sales goals to ebb and flow with how the industry is. In certain months you only need to make 100 dollars an hour, while during busy months I have to make 150 dollars an hour. Most of the time we only need to close 50% of the time because there is the understanding that bridal can be fickle. PLEASE tell me WHY when the average gown at David's Bridal is 500 dollars, that this company, the wal-mart of bridal salons, asks its sales consultants to do 170 dollars an hour even in a month like July? Why is it when the product is not good and cheaply made out of China, we have to convince a poor bride that she needs this 700 dollar dress where the construction isn't even to any standards at all? You have to close 60% of the time when the only people who want a dress from David's bridal are there simply because everywhere else is out of their budget. The "incentives" given by corporate are a complete joke! If you actually meet your goals one week and fall short the next week, guess what happens to the teeny tiny 1% of commission you were supposed to get? It goes away. No matter how well you did in the previous week they will average it out and take it from you. The business model is CRUEL to its stylists in that they try to have you push push push to make commission but it's just about impossible to actually get it! Basically, the CEO is telling us "work hard and you'll be rewarded but not really". Since starting my new bridal job, I get my commission just about every paycheck because the sales goals are actually obtainable and I want to reach for the stars working there! Not funnel money into some CEOs pocket! Oh and if you take your job seriously at ALL, don't expect others too. Most everyone who worked at the Okemos, Michigan store were constantly trying to pass their shifts onto me. No one took the job seriously! I had open availability and I got called at least three times a week from people trying to give me their shifts. They didn't even want to be there and I don't understand why they didn't just quit. Not only that, but I'm not even sure what management is doing at that store because at the start of the week i'd get my hours and then i'd get randomly called and told they were cutting my shifts because they were over on hours. Almost every week this happened. Then to top everything off, since I left and went to a competing business that was able to accommodate my medical needs better and is paying me more, the amount of saltiness I have received from the people whom I assumed were friends is downright baffling. My one manager went from loving me and telling me she'd always welcome me back, to complaining for a total two weeks after she found out where I went and exclaiming that she would no longer be a reference for me. Despite me coming into work five minutes early every shift, taking other shifts for other people, working extremely hard and being a good sales consultant, all of my hard work is now bottomed out to no matter where I go, if I put that number on my resume i'm getting a bad review. They can't even say I was a poor employee all they need to do is look at my numbers! The entire thing was very high school to the point where I was getting confronted on FACEBOOK by a former co-worker of mine. The reality of the situation is that I should have reported them to corporate, and maybe I will. I still have the conversation and the things she sent me.

If it's a slow day- you'll have more slow days than busy days...your sales are low and it affects your pay and your productivity hard