Wet Seal Reviews

Pros

-Positive people working there
-A lot of feedback and support from our DM
-Flexible Schedule, understanding of personal things going on in an individuals life
-Fun work environment
-Enjoyed the atmosphere and actually enjoyed visits from our DM
(was always professional and constructing criticisms, so that we could better our store & district)
-Easy to promote from within
-Great coaching and training

Cons

-Pay was less than satisfactory, but it was an entry level management job so thats expected
-Cliental of my particular demographic was less than satisfactory but that had nothing to do with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Would recommend this company to any applicant! Actually thinking about going back myself once a position opens back up!

Pros

- Enjoyed my team and the fast pace.
- Flexible schedule; great benefits
- Great discount; great product
- fun fashion

Cons

-Worked a lot of over time; worked extremely hard and received minimal appreciation or acknowledgement.
- Hardly any support from dd and corporate
- No appreciation for personal life outside of work

Advice to Senior Management

If you like to work under extreme pressure and challenge yourself; manage a 3A store or larger (room for advancement if you can manage this). If you like a slower pace and want to reap the full benefits of this company and personal life work in a 2A store or smaller (little room for advancement).

I loved my team and actually loved the job itself. Unfortunately, the dd wasn't very knowledgeable and it reflected in our district. The manager was unprofessional and often left the co manager and assistants to fend for themselves; taking litte responsibility for the store. Wet seal could be an amazing company to work for if they fine tuned a lot of their upper management flaws.

Pros

Ok discount, nice clothes, good music.

Cons

You only get promoted if you befriend the dm. If you do enough @ss kissing, then you'll get your own store or get moved into a higher volume store. Its without a doubt a "who you know" environment and if they want to get rid of anyone to plot someone else taking your spot, they'll "find" reasons to write you up in order to get you out. Its a catty cult like environment and I'd NEVER suggest working there. Its a disgusting, fake, cold place to be, especially when you put your heart and sweat into it and it doesn't matter unless you throw someone under the bus & "rat people out" to keep your own job.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up and stop letting certain DM's who don't deserve their positon, walk around with starbucks all day, "run" a disgustingly fake, two faced, lets step on people who we don't personally like, and let "certain managers" get away with not meeting expectatins because we're friends, district. Its a complete circus. Open your eyes.

Pros

Great people, great discount, easy, the store manager was great to work for and my coworkers got along very well. If I needed some time off it was given to me and work with people is the best part.

Cons

Well. Lots of miscommunication and drama going on. Most of it because the store manager didn't have the support from her upper management, they usually would hear what everybody else has to say but her. The unprofessionalism is unbelievable coming from the DD so if you are looking for a store manager position with Wet Seal, be very careful. You won't have someone that supports your decisions and if you fire somebody your DD might go over your head to call the associate back without telling you. Also, she bad mouth you to your own team. I felt bad to the good store manager that left because of the lack of support. She also wasn't from United State and often my DD would tell her to watch her grammar, that was very rude and unprofessional!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate the good managers you have and learn how to support your management team so they can feel in control. Be professional when you speak to your employees and stop helping the gossip and later blaming on somebody else. Leadership starts from top, middle and then bottom and not from the top straight to the bottom. You need to partner with your store manager and make the decisions together and not going behind her back and bad mouth her to the other managers and sales associate.

Pros

Everyone is nice and friendly. They don't look down on you just because you're new. Instead, they try and teach you as much as possible.

Cons

No open-toed shoes. ): No sneakers. So you're done to flats and boots. The store gets switched around every week, so it's a lot to do keeping up with the changes.

Advice to Senior Management

I honestly love Wet Seal very much. The manager is super friendly and she's flexible with our schedules. I think the only suggestion I have is to consider sneakers.

Pros

you get a discount on their clothes.
the nvironment is friendly

Cons

little chance of advancement.
little chance of overtime

Pros

Management allows a great amount of flexibility in scheduling. There's also a good employee discoung.

Cons

No room for advancement. Minimum Wage pay, with only a little pay raise after a year.

Advice to Senior Management

Lead by example.

Pros

This store is fortunate enough to now have an increidible management team who is very fun to work for while still being a top performer. The discount is great, 40% off always and sometimes 50%.

Cons

Working with people is obviously always a downside since not every customer is going to be friendly, and it can be stressful at times during busy hours.

Pros

easy to work around schedule

Cons

not so easy to advance in company and full time positions are limited to management

Pros

There is always work to do. Compensation is average. No problems balancing life/work.

Cons

High turn-over of employees. Picking up slack of teen-aged employees who have more interest in date nights and highschool football/basketball games. Drama from withing and outside.

Advice to Senior Management

Often times leadership is aware of negative impacts in their operations, but if it is not effecting the financial side, they don't care. Don't get your own feeling involved, if you want to be taken seriously.