Abercrombie & Fitch Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Working at Abercrombie and Fitch was a blast and a learning and growing exprence. You leaarn the basics of running any store recruiting hours payroll.

Cons

4 year degree required to be in management that you never use. You can't think for your self . you don't really control any aspect of the business.

Advice to Senior Management

Comunicate

Pros

The work is extremely easy, folding clothes for hours is not difficult. No interaction with customers, very relaxed work place.

Cons

Long hours, management often pressured associates to stay past their scheduled hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Make corporate jobs more apparent, most of these kids are in college and can ad some benefit to the corporate ideas if they are removed from the store front

Pros

discount on clothes, if you like the clothing.
the people that work there
looks good on resume

Cons

expected to work 40 hrs
claims its a salary job, but its really hourly
have to use own vehicle, money and gas to recruit what they think are "beautiful people."
allthe money you make pretty much goes back to the company.

Advice to Senior Management

get a life... outside of AnF

Pros

-30% discount on clothing
- A lot of activity in the store at all times
- light work load

Cons

-Work can be extremely boring in the front rooms
-Many workers which means that you don't get a lot of hours (sometimes 10hrs/week)
-Night shifts can extend to midnight sometimes when there is a lot of store activity during the day
-Nothing to do most of the time which means that you have to act like your working or refold perfectly fine shirts
- Call-ins are the most annoying thing you will encounter. workers have to call their managers 2 hours before scheduled call-ins to see if they have work on that day.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more qualified managers.

Pros

get to wear jeans and a t-shirt, get to work with good looking people who are around eighteen to twenty two

Cons

have to work in a mall, very unprofessional, treat employees like employees not people, folding clothes all day every day sucks

Advice to Senior Management

treat empolyees like people not just employees, could recruit the quality of people expected from this brand if did not pay the models minimum wage when other stores pay more

Pros

Abercrombie is a great job right out of college. It's fun laid-back and just a cool place to be. Most stores aren't crazy busy so you have a lot of down time just to chill and get to know your models and part time impacters. Also A & F hires great looking people so it makes it even more fun. Career opportunities are pretty great with most people getting promoted within 6-8 months. You learn alot about time mangement running a bussiness and recruiting. It also makes you more confindent when meeting new people. And of corse you get an awesome discount.

Cons

The hours, the company only wants you to to work a max of 42.5 hours a week, but on your daily program they give you 50-65 hours worth of work to do in such a sort period of time. The company also strives for perfection and nothing is ever good enough. Also if you aren't super great looking you will not get promoted as fast as great looking people. Which sucks when you are an awesome manager but not so great looking. Overall it just reminds me of a high school populaty contest if you aren't cool you don't get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Just grow up

Pros

The people are awesome. Everyone is very kind and friendly.

Cons

Long hours, but you get paid so its okay. Other than that. Nothing

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage your workers. Know that they are there and when they do something well, tell them how much you appreciate them.