Truly Awful - Sales Associate Sur La Table Employee Review

1.0
Mar 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Endless free coffee. Reasonable employee discount. But I simply could not stand to be there long enough to see if there were any other perks.

Cons

Completely lied to me in my interviewed. I was told that the floor staff were not encouraged to compete for sales, and there were no daily quotas. This were both flat-out lies. I was also expected to drop everything and schedule my life entirely around them, even though they knew from the start I had another job. I was promised in my interview that I would get 12-15 hours a week. When I started working I never got more than 6 scheduled hours a week, but would constantly be called to come in on days I wasn't scheduled, or asked to stay late when I was already there. NOT what I was looking for at all.

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5.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

- Very fun work - Get to work with professional chefs - You will actually learn more about cooking in this position than you will taking the classes - Employee discounts

Cons

- Low pay with no opportunity for advancement, not a career path - Sometimes kitchen is understaffed, putting a lot of pressure on you

1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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