Nice people, but hours sucked and they hired too many people. - Sales Associate Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
24 Apr 2011
Recommend
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Pros

-management/coworkers were very nice -employee discount off any store in company network (Bath and Body Work, Victoria's Secret, Limited Too, etc) -Simple interview process, paid training

Cons

-hours were horrible, even for part time. The interviewer said that the position was for 20 hrs/week but that it was common during the slow times to average 10 hrs/week. The most I got was 6 hours in a week, and that was during the semi-annual sale -like so many have already said, call-in shifts were dumb. You have to make yourself available but they almost never need you -They had way too many people working during any one shift. The store was too small to need 7-9 girls working the floor plus the 3 managers. Which is whatever, but they want you to stay busy, which is hard because there really wasn't enough work to be divvied up between 9 girls. -I only worked there for 3 weeks. And in that After I called in to see if I was needed for my call-in shift and they said no, I was not scheduled for anymore shifts, nor was I ever contacted about a termination. I thought that maybe I had done something wrong, but then I ran into a girl that worked with me there a few months later, and she said that they had done the same thing to her.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

Generous pay for management, paid holidays and maternity leave for full timers, good benefits. Treats us more like humans than any other business I’ve ever worked for

Cons

Work/life balance can be hard, especially around the holidays

1.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good discounts on merchandise, easy work.

Cons

I would have loved to purchase some of their products conisdering the 40% off discount for employees, but they failed to pay me enough to sustain myself let alone buy from their store! I was getting paid about $150 every two weeks! They never notified me about how little I'd be working or about what my schedule would be like, my shifts were completely random. If you want a set schedule each week. this job isn't for you, you're lucky to get 1 shift a week that only lasts about 3-4 hours. Once again, my supervisors failed to mention this, thinking it was more important that I know how to sell products than whether or not I get paid enough to survive. I don't know why there was so much emphasis on selling merchandise to customers anyway, these products practically sell themselves. I had a lot of questions starting out since I was a NEW EMPLOYEE and all and had never worked a job like this in my life, but for some reason my supervisors failed to see this and instead made me feel ashamed and embarassed for asking the simplest of questions. They'd actually get mad and a little sassy at me for asking a question, like where a specific item was or how to do a return. I have to remind you, I had just started and my shifts were so sporadic it was difficult to retain all the info, so I HAD to ask questions.

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