francesca's reviews

low, low, low, low pay and a lot of work for that low, low low, low pay

When you first start, you are told how much visual power you have in your store. This turns out to be not a wonderful concept especially if you are a high volume store. There are alot o gray areas for instance there is no contact list for any corporate employee so you literally have no way of knowing who to contact for issues. They want you to contact your trainer first or area manager, which is just unnecessary alot of times. Also, the employee handbook is tricky. There are alot of gray areas there especially with pto time. Your poor assistant manager receives NO pto. Very little support in high volume stores. You run around like a crazy person trying to create visuals and run a team and they still expect you to visually look like a store who does a tenth of your volume. That's were the visual freedom is a pain. Very small staffing creates problems if someone needs time off or leaves. Pay leaves alot to be desired especially in high volume stores. If you work in a small volume store pay is great but like me, in a large volume, it didn't match the stress and work. Bonus s structure seems nice but majority of company stores are struggling right now. My store hasn't made a goal in about seven months because they planned so high (20 percent over ly). After the founding CEO retired in December, it has been crumbling.