Old Navy Reviews

Pros

great opportunity growth with Gap Inc. family. fun friendly environment. look forward to going to work. co-workers are amazing. discount is amazing

Cons

my wage lower than desired

Advice to Senior Management

Please allow for training to be completed prior to putting new hires on the floor. Or at least offer more hours up front. Training process and beginning of funds to be generated takes much longer than desired.

Pros

Great pay and are very flexible with your schedule. They also allow you to take days off if you inform them ahead of time.

Cons

When it isn't busy the hours are seriously lacking. Dealing with some of the customers really get under your skin so if you are not a people person this job is not for you.

Advice to Senior Management

When Adjusting hours have everyone adjusted. Seeing someone have a 9 hour shift while you were adjusted for a 4 hour shift is very discouraging.

Pros

Opportunities for advancement
Good benefits package

Cons

Retail hours (late nights and weekends)

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline communication

Pros

The discounts are extremely generous. You get 25% off everything except clearance at Old Navy, 50% off Banana Republic and Gap (full priced items) and 30% off at the Outlets, 10% off of clearance. Great place to work if you like to shop but you will need another job or else you will be spending all your money in the store :-/

Cons

Not enough hours. They hire a lot of people, and they do not offer many hours. Unless you are a manager you will forever be a part-time worker.

Advice to Senior Management

You're doing a great job.

Pros

Learning how retail works, learning to deal with people in real world experiences, great job for young people either in college or in high school

Cons

Extremely low pay, degrading, nearly mind numbbing work.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers at this particular store (3376) were amazing. Although, sometimes I think the younger workers were often taken for granted.. And not given respect like the adult workers received

Pros

Old Navy was promoted a friendly atmosphere and was a great place to work as a young adult, especially while in school. They were fairly flexible with scheduling and the pay was fair. The discount at Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic was great (40%, 20%, and 20%). Overall, it was a good experience and I would recommend it to others.

Cons

The store can get incredibly messy during the holiday season, and not everyone takes pride in keeping it clean. Also, it is really annoying to have to pressure of getting customers to sign up for the store credit cards in this economy. Or anytime really.

Advice to Senior Management

Management was generally friendly and respectful of employees. There were opportunities for employees to move up into store management after putting in the time and commitment. The management teams made it an enjoyable experience.

Pros

Hours are good
pay is decent
people can be ok

Cons

Too high of expectations
Finished task dont expect thanks, expect a lecture
someones always talking crap about you

Advice to Senior Management

get rid of older employees wasting payroll
assign reasonable time limits
be more understanding
do the work yourself....

Pros

They have one of the best starting pay rates for a mall retail company, started at 8.50 whereas Aeropastle tried to poach me from Old Navy offering minimum wage.

Cons

Working with a lot of disposable employees that generally don't pull their weight. My store was particularly annoying as we were a training store for managers so you often knew more than the managers did during your shift.

Advice to Senior Management

Sitting in the back playing board games while the rest of the employees are out on the floor is not an acceptable thing to do.

Pros

My co workers and sometimes managers are cool as well as the discount for clothes. Good place to work when you are just starting to get a job and get your feet wet.

Cons

Hire too many people, especially with Christmas coming. Stop giving people less hours and yelling at them for not finishing the job in such short time. You can't do go backs in 10 minutes if you haven't been working much.

Advice to Senior Management

Still need to figure out why managers come and go so much because it's annoying to have to get used to new managers. Need to not pressure managers so much and should try working at the store to see how hard it really is.

Pros

Great discount that could be used with great sales

Cons

Everything cleaning management and scheduling

Advice to Senior Management

Care more anout.the employees