low pay, unreasonable demands, and lack of work life balance - Assistant Manager Sally Beauty Employee Review

2.0
Dec 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

• 30% employee discount • paid vacation and sick time

Cons

• the business requires you to be on call 24/7 • the pay for an assistant manager, no matter your experience, is extremely low (only $1 above minimum wage) • ever growing workload and demand • encouraged to never call out/use sick time • no work life balance • extreme micromanaging from higher ups

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5.0
Feb 18, 2026
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Pros

Trying new products Assisting customers with product recommendations Commission on certain items

Cons

The daily revenue quota was at times very unrealistic and unattainable. A lot of pressure was put on our team to sell x/dollars per day but sometimes it just wasn't realistic (bad weather, lots of returns some days).

3.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

The people I worked with were always really cool and it was honestly a very easy job.

Cons

Upper level management was too uptight about certain goals that were unrealistic for beauty advisors, but there was never any big repercussions. Too little pay for the amount of work I did.

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