Drink up kids, they're serving Kool Aid with every meal-you'll be forced to drink it eventually.
Pros
1. Discount, discount, discount-if you're a slave to fashion this is the place to work. 2. The people are awesome. Desipite being over worked and under payed this is a great place to make life long friends. Everyone is sooooo friendly you'd swear they were putting something in the water, some of the nicest people I've ever worked with have been at the Gap. For the most part everyone is very respectful and a joy to work with. 3. Fridays are usually very casual-meaning most people leave around 2-3pm to get a jump start on the weekend! During ski season everyone jets out early to head to Tahoe and during the summer they leave early to head to Napa!
Cons
If you don't "play the game" or "drink the kool-aid" you won't last long. It's all about leveraging connections and appearances-it's amazing how quickly some people get promoted because upper management thinks they look and talk the part (although they're not doing the work to back it up.) Another big downside of BR and Gap is that the designers are in New York CIty, last year I spend over 8 weeks in New York. At first the travel seems great but after the 3rd or 4th trip of the year to New York my body started to protest the cross country flights and week long stays in hotels-I still get exhausted just thinking about it! If I wanted to work in New York that much I would move there!
