Worst. Employer. Ever. - Task Team Member Ulta Beauty Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2014
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Pros

Nothing. I'm filling up space because I'm required to enter at least five words.

Cons

The GM works only 30 hours a week. He's the only one salaried, by the way. He also has no idea how to run a store. No clue how to budget hours for truck and ad. He's got great rapport with the customers, but no operational knowledge whatsoever. The other manager clearly doesn't know how to choose her battles - she made us write down how long it took to process shipment by area. Never mind the fact that we've finished earlier than scheduled the past several weeks. Or that she's NEVER worked a truck with us to experience the sheer hell that is shipment. We've been short a manager for months. So long, in fact, that I forgot we were supposed to have an additional manager on staff. No one sticks around long enough to even bother learning their names. The store itself is in horrendous shape - apparently we no longer face the shelves, or bother to pick up wayward items and put them back where they belong. I can't believe the mess. And I can't believe the DM doesn't have a coronary when she visits. I have come to the conclusion that she must not ever visit our store. "Fun Fact": Did you know that managers receive a bonus when they are at or under budget for staff hours each week? This is why your hours get cut right before you're supposed to report to work (or as you walk in for your shift). This is why you get pressured to finish truck early, or get your head practically ripped off when you don't finish, or finish later than scheduled. Your misery is their gain.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

this could just be the case for my store, especially because it's a very high volume store, but as a stylist I don't feel valued at all. I expected this to some degree coming to a huge corporate salon, but the biggest issue is that they try to pretend they care about you. but at the end of the day, if you're not meeting the sales they want/growing quickly enough, they don't care about you as a stylist. if you don't already have an established clientele, business is highly unreliable as there is no late cancellation/no show policy. many services are underpriced in my opinion, making it hard to meet their sales goals as an entry level part-time stylist unless fully booked every day. all they care about is getting as many clients in and out and quickly and possible and they hire more stylists than there are chairs, making every day inconsistent and chaotic. the relative stability of hourly pay is commission threshold isn't met seems enticing for stylists still building a clientele, but the hourly pay is wildly inconsistent between stylists, even those of the same tier. as a stylist of over 3 years who moved and is starting over with no clientele, I make over $2 less per hour than a fellow stylist who just got her license a few months ago and started taking clients for the first time last week. you're better off working at a place like Great Clips or Hair Cuttery because at least they're honest about what they are.

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