Lovely shop and great atmosphere - Sales Associate Polarn O. Pyret Employee Review

Relaxed work environment, easy work

slow paced job, not very exciting

I can not say there are any pros to this job.

Poor management. Owner and Store Manager has no control over their staff. Sales associates and keyholders have bad attitudes and come off as know -it-alls. They hired me as an Assistant manager but the Store Manager avoided training me because she did not find it important enough so she had her keyholders who obviously have no respect for authority try to train me. The staff has such bad attitudes especially one keyholder who obviously wanted my position and completely came off bitter and I witnessed this employee racially profile a customer and argue with a customer on the sales floor when clearly the customer was in the right. I walked out. You can't possibly think it's ok to allow keyholders to train an assistant manager. You can't possibly think not caring to train your assistant is showing that you value them. This company doesn't know how to motivate their staff to do well. They expect someone else to do it without training them. I would avoid this company like the plague. I found way better just 2 days later. I'm glad I walked out because if I did not I would not have gotten the amazing opportunity to work as a GM with an organization that values me so much they flew me out of state to get the most amazing training experience ever with my retail counterparts and corporate.