Working at Bath and Body Works — Reviews by Employees

I have worked here since October this year. I love working here my managers are amazing my co workers are awesome. The pay is good I get above minimum wage. Scheduling is the only thing that i have ever had any issues with. and that has been resolved now. We have fun on the sales floor we make the customers feel at home. all of the ideas we come up with that the managers hear and think are good are used along with all the other lingo. I love being able to help customers find what they are looking for and help them find something maybe they weren't looking for. Floor sets are so much fun you get to have fun with your co workers and change the way the whole store looks. It is very gratifying to know that you helped make the store as beautiful as it is. All in all this is an amazing place to work for and I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to work for such a great company.

I worked in a small store, with maybe 3 other girls on a slow day, and I remember I had a such a great time with them. I also had to have another job because this job alone was not enough. But the girls I worked with were so sweet, and so nice, and FUN. I didn't mind the smell of the store, and I bet that would bug some people. Yes, some of the managers and AM would press sales and encourage us to sell like crazy, but it really depended on the manager and how comfortable you felt pushing the customer or if you should back off. I think this place taught be a lot about sales techniques and working as a team, and I still go in all the time.

I worked at this store where as the Manager was fired from a previous retail store for stealing money. At least 3x a week all of the Associates are either called and asked if we can come in earlier than scheduled, stay longer or get called on your day off to work. If you call in sick, you are told to call everyone else to have your shift covered or you have to come in. If you request vacation time months in advance, the Manager forgets, schedules you, and tells you to find someone to cover. During floor sets, you are there until 12, 1, 2 a.m. etccc...with "no" break. The last one was earlier this week and some of us worked 1 to 12 straight hours with no break at all. I quit! I'm not a slave!!

the pay is horrible, the district leaders don't care about their people and the company as a whole wastes alot!!!! I am talking major waste, just in paper waste alone they must kill about a tree a day!!!

they excpect alot but do not treat their people with respect....

I have never worked for a company who wastes soooo much!!! Also they have no respect for the people who work for them. They only give benefits to those who are managers, and they keep as few managers as possible. Their training is the worst I have ever had. They spend a fortune on their marketing materials of which about 95% gets pitched....this money could easily pay for the hardworking people to have a few benefits!
They live by titles and not loyalty or hard work.....very artificial!!! I will not support a company like this. The district leaders speak poorly about each other and of course this sets the grounds for what goes on in the store atmosphere for other employees.
The district leaders all act like snot nosed silver spoon fed brats, instead of mentors! No wonder they turn over so many people!!!!
Run for your life if your considering working here!!!!

Everyone said they get minimum wage here, but I get a dollar over minimum $9 an hour in MA. I personally like this job, you may not get all the hours you want but it is really fun.

Really?
Love getting the free stuff.....
Anything else? Well the Co-manager there doesn't do much. She's abrasive...
She Doesn't ask Please.. its just " brake this box", take the trash, Start on this wall..
Not too much training ...

So I worked at BB seasonal. It was also my first job ever, so this was my experience.

BB isn't bad, I met many new people and made new friends :). At the same time, working during seasonal is crazy! Sometimes, I'd have to go on register and I'd be on for 3 hours straight without even knowing it. And theres absolutely no break at it. Like people just go on coming to you.

My manager was the best. I loved her! Very understanding and yet she wanted so much for the store. At times there would be things I'd have to do even tho I didn't wanna. Like cleaning out the trash under the sinks or washing it up (which I thought was gross) but then again, the store is entirely composed of soaps and creams, what would you expect?

The holiday baskets they made when I was working seasonal were really nice, at the same the most annoying things in the world! To put them in a shopping bag would just take a minute or two, and you'd have to constantly re-stock them! Customers wanted a certain scent and you'd have to run back to the stock room.

Another thing is you have to be able to lift heavy boxes. Well not exactly heavy, but moderate ones. Constantly. They always want the under-stock full and the shelves full up to the brim, so it meant going back and forth.

But over all, I really liked it. My manager was really flexible even though my hours were a bit sketchy since I going to college too, but overall not bad. I'd work back there again if I could :).

Oh and I was making 7.75$/hour if that was of any help

I always wanted to work at BBW but had to wait til i was 18. Day of my bday I applied and was hired only a few weeks later. I was a high school senior and got out early every day so I told them I was free from 1 til closing, still they put me from 6-10 or 7-10. Some days I only worked one day a week, bringing home a whopping $20 paycheck (and I took this job cuz I wanted to save up for prom).

What I hated worst was the almanacs. For different times of year or different sales campaigns we would come in after closing time and basically shift the furniture around and place new products until midnight, which was so weary.

I hated climbing those tall ladders to grab a big box of body wash or antibacterial soap...my manager would watch as I did it, but once I nearly fell to my death.

Call ins are so dumb, its pointless. They never needed me when I did call in, but when I wasnt scheduled my co-worker would call me and ask me to fill in for her, most of the time it wasnt an emergency, she had dinner plans or had to get her nails done. Yet she never got in trouble for it.

Sometimes we were supposed to push certain products, and we were encouraged to grab a customer, drag her over to the sink to let her try out a sugar scrub. 90% of the customers were kind of scared by this tactic, and I used it once on my mom when she came in.

All in all BBW is a great store. I like it better as a customer than as an employee.

I recently left my job at Bath & Body Works due to the lack of respect for employees from management. Even though they were nice people, they treat their workers as slaves. If your a hard worker, prepare to be taken advantage of. Either you spend the day out on the sales floor bothering customers until they make a purchase or shoving their newest products down their throats; until they physically ask you to leave them alone. When it comes to stocking and replenishing the store, prepare to climb up 8 ft. ladders and carry down 40 lb. boxes of lotion,shower gels and body mists. Not such an easy job when your 5'1 and they leave you all alone in the back room doing it all yourself. The ladders they give you to use are less then sturdy and they could care less if you fall and get hurt. I'm the kind of person who can't just stand around on a job I need to keep myself busy. I guess many people these days don't actually go to work and work but because they realized I would go above and beyond what i was expected to do they began to increase my weekly hours a lot. This eventually lead me to working crazy hours leaving at later then 3 in the morning after floor sets and being asked to return at 6:30 the next morning to help with shipment. Not only is this insensitive but it is physically impossible. Some ladies would come into work and stay for no more then three hours and be sent home. I on the other hand would be "expected" to stay for my on calls. I was no longer asked because they always needed me. Pretty unfair when girls would come to work for such a small amount of time and leave and after a 9 hr shift i was asked to work for another three hours. I was attending college full-time as well and I needed at least one day off a week to do some studying or catch up on my rest. Around Christmas time I was working well over 40 hrs a week and still getting paid my regular pay with no overtime or any benefits. I told them I needed to cut down on my hours a little bit so i had some time to catch up with myself, thats when they told me i knew what i had gotten myself into prior to accepting the job. But, on the other hand ladies who i worked with were complaining that they cut down their hours and they were only getting 3-4 hours a week. Funny how I was working over 40 and they told the other employees they didn't have any more hours to give them;even after i requested to reduce the amount i worked. Their business is all about making their customers happy, what about your employees?