Horrible management - Consultant Aesop Employee Review

1.0
26 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues that you work with on the shop floor are usually lovely people.

Cons

Management especially the assistant manager working at the time was horrible. Extremely patronising and bullying environment. She made multiple people cry by falsely accusing them and spreading false rumours. Extremely toxic in her approach to handling the shop when the manager was away and would be very vulgar and rude about customers after they had left. Management never helps on the shop floor, just sit in the staff room to chat while other staff struggled. I had to train new employees as someone who was only 1 month in while it was not part of my role and would get shouted at for not knowing certain things even though I was still learning. She would purposefully put you on shifts for the days you wanted off then complain like it was your fault. Would make comments and nasty remarks about colleagues to other colleagues like we're in school.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Employee discount, very low income , flexible schedule,

Cons

I worked there for two years, and in December last year I was informed the store would close, which left me with no option but to resign on the same day due to the need to cover my rent. Strangely, the next day the same decision-maker announced that the store would remain open and that a new store manager would be appointed, a plan that has still not materialized after seven months. In the interim, the store has operated with interim managers and a reduced staff, while pay remains low and the culture has deteriorated, leading to ongoing turnover and a perception of practices that are not consistent with fair and respectful treatment of employees.

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