I worked for this company for 6 years. I was easily promoted to higher management, but the company is full of empty promises. I think it goes for all banners of YM. They always 'promise' their employees things & never carry through on it. They never appreciate anything the employees do & only notice things when something is done incorrectly. The quality of the clothing is HORRIBLE. There were so many times when shipments were coming in to the store & there would be dirt, dead bugs & even mold on the clothing. They always promise you a certain amount of hours but when the business is slow, they're so quick to cut hours no matter what position you hold & how good of a worker you are. It was my first job and I started off as a part time, moved to full time then moved to management. Nothing throughout the 6 years ever changed with the higher management. They tried to make it seem as if the company was a high end store trying to make us wear dress clothes, but we obviously went against it & wore whatever we wanted to. If there was one thing that was annoying, was the pressure to harrass customers to buy things. As a consumer you only go into a store to buy certain things, you can only force a customer to add on a few things. They were always constantly under staffed and never had enough people working, especially on weekends which led more people to steal. Majority of the time the setup of the floor was being changed on a WEEKLY basis. They have poor judgment when it came to setting up the store & doing planogram every single week & they wonder why sales were never high enough. It's because one week employees would be folding a 1000 t-shirts, and the next week they would have to hang it. I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone, not even students. It's not worth working for a company where you're not appreciated for anything and promised hours then only used when other people call in sick.

Posted on 5 June 2013 by Rater #187 | Flag as inappropriate

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