L'Occitane reviews

Welcome to the mean girls club. When hired you are promised so much.....then when you question why these promises are not met, they say it's due to poor performance. What about your performance? It varies from week to week. You see no matter how well you do, if the manager does not like you, or prefers someone over you, then you will get the crap shifts and the low hours. Initially they review your performance with you as a means of "making you better". Lies. Numbers matter. You are expected to hustle as if you are earning commission, But your not. You are expected to be a skincare expert within about a month, with minimal training. There have been at least two employees with excellent numbers, the best infact. However, since they were not liked, they received the worst shifts and hours. I haven't even touched on the slander and sabotage encouraged to justify their nastiness. Prepare to have your skin thickened.

scheduling usually wasn't done till the day before, schedule usually doesn't allow for anyone to be able to take breaks so if you're working an 8 hour shift, you're expected not to eat or drink. You're also expected not to sit. Ever. This was a big deal. Sitting was a bigger offense than being late or not completing daily tasks. The acting manager made a 9 months pregnant staff member sit on a cement floor instead of in a chair because "chairs are for our VIPS" Yes. I am serious. Pregnant woman on the floor. There was no breakroom so if you possibly found a few minutes to eat, you were expected to eat in the bathroom. Gross. I was hired to train for management and was told I'd be full time within a month or two. 5 months later I was still part-time. I wouldn't advise anyone to work there unless they have a full-time, salaried job in writing. They pay the managers well and the perks are endless so they dangle the "manager" thing around like a carrot in front of a donkey to get maximum performance out of their part-time staff but they don't actually follow through. The shop I worked in has been without an on-site manager for the better part of a year.