Just Okay - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
Jan 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

I have worked at BBW for 5 months now. The discounts are pretty good. 30% off products, excluding sale items. The employees working there are great, they understand where you are coming from becasue most of them are in the same position. Sometimes you get a free travel size of a scent for attending an important meeting.

Cons

I don't expect to be payed much since I am sort of new, but minimum wage and 3 hours a week just does not cut it. I recieved a single 3 hour shift per week for many weeks. I sometimes had just one 3 hour call in per week, and they never need you for call ins. This is a very independent job, you are not told about a lot of new products/sales. When I was newer and I would ask a question I would ALWAYS get an unclear answer with an attitude. You had to fight for yourself. The managers were always in the back room eating and gossiping about the other girls.

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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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