Something Needs To Change - Sales Lead Vans Employee Review

3.0
Oct 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My coworkers are for the most part great the Assistant Manager is amazing and the customers are mostly pretty cool! And the employee discount is great.

Cons

The problem is almost everything else. The work load is either literally nothing to do one week and then ridiculously over worked the next few you are expected to work consul markdowns and shipment all while helping customers and running drag. The pay is not very good especially not for the work load we are given. We have a horrible SM who is constantly lying to our DM and does nothing but sit all day. And as a Sales Lead I am expected to be available weekends and three weekdays a week but only given 15 hours tops and am now having my job threatened because I had to take a second job just to make ends meet. It’s quite frankly ridiculous. I thought vans would be a company I could be proud of. But it turns out it’s all corporate and doesn’t actually stand for the authenticity and diversity that it claims.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

The environment is absolutely amazing with my coworkers and they are always supportive. Any issues that arise are met with a high level of humanity - on the base level of the people I work with, because I haven't really delt with corporate. It genuinely feels nice to work here when you have a team like mine. The culture of skating is absolutely amazing to learn about at VANs and be a part of as well. I like the history behind some of the shoes, but that's probably just because I'm a history nerd.

Cons

Part time doesn't get many hours or enough pay to survive off of. However, you can't become full time unless you get a higher position. Sadly, they are incredibly hard to get, due to the fact people seem to stay with VANs if they get that promotion, just because it seems to be great to work here once you have that higher position. As well as the usual shift is 4 hours, and sometimes you only get one shift a week. It's just incredibly hard to stay here when it can't even give you enough money on your paychecks to get a small amount of groceries that'll last one person two weeks.

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