Excellent company, environment and values! - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

5.0
May 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The company is by far among THE BEST when it comes to employee satisfaction. They value their employees and go as far as to treat them to free products on a regular basis, guaranteed annual reviews which allow potential for wage increase based upon one's performance along with a high tendency to promote within the company. This is a company that you enjoy showing up for work because they know happy employees make happy customer experiences. Bath and Body Works is part of the Limited Brands company, which frequently receives awards and acknowledgement for both national and international excellence among sales, customer service, diversity, and their willingness to give back to local communities.

Cons

The scheduling is a bit unnerving. Shorter shifts than your average employer (averaging between 3-5 hours a day) and the company also schedules "call-in" shifts which limit the ability to plan ahead for personal life on days which an individual is scheduled for a "call-in" shift. Their products are ever changing, so employees are expected to learn both current and "retired" scents to ensure customer satisfaction and the ability to suggest similar fragrances which are current in the store. Learning hundreds of fragrances and their basic compositions gets tedious, but eases with more experience.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

Good discounts on merchandise, easy work.

Cons

I would have loved to purchase some of their products conisdering the 40% off discount for employees, but they failed to pay me enough to sustain myself let alone buy from their store! I was getting paid about $150 every two weeks! They never notified me about how little I'd be working or about what my schedule would be like, my shifts were completely random. If you want a set schedule each week. this job isn't for you, you're lucky to get 1 shift a week that only lasts about 3-4 hours. Once again, my supervisors failed to mention this, thinking it was more important that I know how to sell products than whether or not I get paid enough to survive. I don't know why there was so much emphasis on selling merchandise to customers anyway, these products practically sell themselves. I had a lot of questions starting out since I was a NEW EMPLOYEE and all and had never worked a job like this in my life, but for some reason my supervisors failed to see this and instead made me feel ashamed and embarassed for asking the simplest of questions. They'd actually get mad and a little sassy at me for asking a question, like where a specific item was or how to do a return. I have to remind you, I had just started and my shifts were so sporadic it was difficult to retain all the info, so I HAD to ask questions.

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