Vantaggi
Scheduling app. - very convenient, enables you to communicate with your colleagues and management as well as managing your shifts (trade, change defaults, make off requests, etc.). Employee discount, although, sometimes, I feel as though with the ability to stack discounts (promotions + student and/or teacher discounts), non-employees get a better deal. Most of the people are nice, there will be some who are too cliquey. Some store managers are nice and then there are some who are complete and utterly unreasonable. I mean, if there is a major change in your life that warrants a slight change in your availability, at least listen to your associates first before saying no.
Svantaggi
SPH - which is reasonable for the price point of J. Crew merchandise. However, some stylists will go over and beyond to make sure they get credited for a mere greeting! It is competitive, I guess, but I feel that sometimes the customer sees these behaviors which is plain and simple nasty and unnecessary. I had one customer apologize to me because she felt that I should have been credited for my help, but another associate inputted her name. TEAMWORK, yes, but if a customer feels the need to apologize to an associate, that's a different story. It destroys the relationships between the associates, morale, and the overall shift atmosphere for some who are focused in catering the needs of the customers. Some stylists will even connive with VPSs for sales in exchange for credit with opening J crew cards. SAD. SPH - determining your schedule. Okay, So I get it, the more you sell the more you get scheduled. But if you are constantly being scheduled for four hours every week, on the slowest day of the week, how are you able to improve your numbers?