River Island reviews

management in some stores a bit "cliquey" put staff in positions off authority/responsibility but don't recognise or reward this with appropriate wages/job titles (eg every week put you in sole charge of a department, doing the work that a senior sales assistant/junior manager would do however you get paid the same as the staff you are supervising) however management would be quick to point the finger at you if something went wrong - all the downsides of a senior sales job without the reward! If you ask for the reward you are laughed at!

The whole store, and from what I have heard, most stores are extremely cliquey, this resulted in a lot of arguments and awkwardness during shifts. I was often refused holidays although I had not taken any yet in the year and was left with almost a full month off as the tax year ended which wasn't what I wanted. Being a sales assistant the upper management within the store spoke to me like I was an idiot. I would bend over backwards to help customers and other team members to never get a thank you, only criticism. At the end of the day, a job is a job, a means to an end for me as I only worked there on weekends while studying but once I moved to a different company I could not believe the difference.