Not bad, but not great. - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
Nov 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Extra cash On a good day can be enjoyable. Most customers are very pleasant and fun to help.

Cons

There's really more bad than good here. Few hours,minimum wage , you're not appreciated, one person tells you to do something, then you're done and you're told it didn't matter since it was going to be removed from the wall anyway...that's the usual. Management pays attention to detail when it comes to things that don't matter so much, yet ignore or don't even realize some things that are way more visible and less attractive to customers than the things they are having us fix. It feels like you're doing a lot more work than what you are paid to do. It seems you are punished for being fast and efficient because they just give you more to do once your done with one task. It has also been made difficult for me to transfer to a place more convenient for me. A difference of 40 minutes of drive time with traffic and 15 minutes without. Positions are available, so I don't know what the hold up is. I am told that I am a great employee and good at sales, but the only compensation I get is being the greeter in zone 1 and standing around like a fool. I don't think I am above any of this, I would just like to feel that I am getting paid adequately for my time and especially for the energy that I put into sales versus other associates. It's hard to care when you don't feel it matters.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Generous pay for management, paid holidays and maternity leave for full timers, good benefits. Treats us more like humans than any other business I’ve ever worked for

Cons

Work/life balance can be hard, especially around the holidays

1.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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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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