Abercrombie & Fitch Reviews

Pros

Fun management and coworkers, very easy work.

Cons

Perfume in the air 24/7 + loud music = severe headaches.

Advice to Senior Management

More hours for models and impact members.

Pros

You get to work with genuinely cool people and empathetic managers. It's not meant to be a really intense job so the managers understand that you have other commitments (i.e. school, clubs); scheduling is very lax and it's generally easy to get shift covered when something comes up because of the large employee base. You also get 30% clothes and gift cards all the time and 50% two tops, a pair of jeans/shorts/a skirt, and a pair of flip flops each time the floorset changes (these are called AAAs. You will learn to love them).

Cons

When you are a part time worker for Abercrombie, you will make $7.25 an hour without a chance of a raise.

Advice to Senior Management

I genuinely appreciate the movement toward a more diverse employee base and the fact that my managers make sure to instill in all of my coworkers the importance of helping the customer. Everyone in the store realizes that customer satisfaction is imperative, and I really haven't any idea why the brand has still got a bad rap.

Pros

The discount, fun environment, free uniforms and the fact that you made friends easiy which made time fly by pretty fast

Cons

Sometimes you would deal with annoying co workers. The playlist would drive you nuts after a while, you hear the same songs for like two months.

Advice to Senior Management

I think you guys are doing a good job but sometimes ya give preferences to those who go t work to fool around

Pros

Good place for small part-time job and sometimes working your way into a manager position.

Cons

Poor pay (minimum wage) & poor ways of raises given out.

Pros

Coworkers were fantastic
Discount was great
Great music although a little loud sometimes
Fun environment to work in, very laid back

Cons

Expect minimum wage for compensation
Upper management didn't even know you existed (nor did they care)
Retail customers are the worst

Pros

Young, energetic atmosphere. Good health benefits and vacation time.

Cons

terrible hours, no social life due to working nights/weekends. terrible pay. company is rapidly closing stores in the U.S. so no real upward mobility unless you're willing to go overseas.

Advice to Senior Management

pay more.

Pros

Dress code- jeans, flip flops, and sweatshirts. My co-workers and I became good friends and even though now we all went our separate ways we still keep in contact. Fairly laid back atmosphere.

Cons

Extremely long hours with extremely poor pay. My Assistant Manager (who was paid hourly, rather than salaried like I was) got paid more than I did and worked less hours. Required to recruit all employees (management and associates) off the sales floor, in the mall, and offsite- even though there was a whole recruiting department.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase salaries of the store managers. Don't have such strict hiring standards (all managers are required to have a 4 year degree). Have better training materials for MITs.

Pros

If you have a good store manager, stress is low.

Cons

The "models", part-timers, gripe about having more hours, and, being 17-20 are essentially kids, looking for every opportunity to not follow directions. Micromanagement and constant check-ins are needed. If you are a clsoing manager, your entire life is define by how well the store looks the next day. Your store manager gets on you @ss if things aren't perfect for opening the next day, you stayed too long to clean up, etc. Additionally, hours can suck 1:30pm to 10:30pm 3-4 days a week plus one mandatory weekend worked (similar hours) means no life. What can you do in entirety before 1:30pm beside breakfast and lunch, or do after 10:30pm when you need to go to sleep for the next day? Managers come and go quickly, noticing the pay does not do justice to the bachelor degree required to be a manger. Therefore, often "promotion" comes from others leaving.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't let you managers play favorites with associates. It creates a bad atmosphere when 1 "model" gets 20 hours a week and others get 4 in 2 weeks. The ones with a high number of hours are more complacent - don't want to work because their cups hath overflown, plus they feel a time crunch with school (High School or College). You also kill the self-esteem of your employees meaning they will never be future customers, and dissuade others from being customers.
By favoring one model over another (especially when people are new hires) you make it blatanly obvious that the company values LOOKS in its part-timers over anything, or that the NON-FRAT policy isn't in place because AM's and SM's have friends that are part-timers.

Pros

Great place to network with other college professionals.

Cons

Low compensation, Scattered hours, Horrible customers, Retail environment.

Pros

Flexible hours good job if in school

Cons

No hair color
Nail color
No makeup
Min wage pay
Don't really care about the employee