lululemon Employee Reviews about "work environment"

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No Cons, lululemon has there own culture, you love it or you don’t

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Working retail can be exhausting

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Not very diverse staff (very white and privileged) Very competitive work environment as most coworkers are type A and always watching how everyone is performing Retail can be exhausting standing on your feet for hours at a time

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Not really any cons to say

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Although it wasn't on my contract, and never verbally said to me before signing (even though I ask twice during my interviews), they made me learn Mandarin lol. By myself. 'You can install an app that teaches you' ... I'm a foreign here, I'm fluent in 3 other languages, but I told them from the start that I can't speak Cantonese or Mandarin, and they still hired me. Two weeks after I started they informed me I would have a mandarin test by the end OF THE MONTH lol. Cult-like behaviour. That's as honest as honest gets. Some people make working there their whole personality and it becomes an impossible environment to work at. You're literally selling leggings, calm down. Oh, and training was too intense. It's a retail job, but it looks like you're joining a new religion. They never tell us we HAVE TO wear only lululemon, BUT we are strictly prohibited to have other logos showing. But obviously they don't provide us with clothes. So I ended up spending money I didn't have, so I could go to work.. Even having the employee discount, it was awfully expensive. This was possibly a thing only at my store, but.. Schedules are supposed to rotate, and yet I was stuck on night shift for a month. Just unbearable. Maybe this comes with the Chinese retail culture, because some customers here enjoy that personalised shopping experience, and being pampered. It gives off a luxury vibe. But our manager literally made us shadow guests around the store, to the point some of them would leave. I personally hate it when people do that to me, so I tried not to suffocate my guests, and give them space to look at items by themselves. Stay close enough to step in if they looked confused or like they needed assistance. I was told off a lot of times for doing that, for giving guests some space. Ridiculous. Lastly, the brand loves to greenwash, and as a sustainable fashion designer I couldn't stand for it. That's just a personal ethical thing, but I thought I should mention it.

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It’s retail. Some managers and employees treat the job like they are changing the world and run it like a 9-5 career. When they are selling pricy workout wear. It’s no different than any other retailer. The culture can be a little eye roll ridiculous at times. Border line cult like. Young employee base can be immature and click like. Playing games and such at staff meetings feels more like middle school camp. Going out together and non required but highly encouraged team events. Managers in their 20s/low 30s don’t have life and career experience to understand what “work life balance” is and make it a challenge for employees to work around kids and family and 2nd job schedules. Current policy requires Very little grace and understanding in schedule requests of employees by managers and vacation policy is ridiculous unpredictable Managerial level rolls could be more flexible for remote work for administration work and work from home for administrative duties and less floor shifts. No paid sick time of sick time off. Must work when sick or get written up. Same with grace period on running late or when unplanned issues occur - sick kid, flat tire, traffic. If you drop down from a manager or like rolls to educator they greatly reduce your pay despite time in roll. Same when moving from a higher pay class area (California) to somewhere with lower cost of living. Educator (regular employee) bonus structure and pay is border line poverty and most employees have second jobs or bank rolled by someone else. It is not a living wage. Long shifts for the sake of long shifts.

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I truly dont have any

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Inconsistent business management with coming from senior management. There is limited internal growth opportunity. The workload is high for retail managers or key leaders and base pay does not reflect the high expectations of performance. Inconsistent bonus structure that relies on store performance.

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In Marketing Technology there was a director that created a toxic work environment that was shameful, destructive and divisive.

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Sometimes lack of communication sometimes makes you feel out of the loop with the rest of the team because of only being part time