retail assistant manager

retail store manager

retail assistant store manager

retail sales associate

skincare specialist

Kiehls

I worked at the Piscataway plant on the night shift and it’s not worth it. They’re long shifts and while the work isn’t hard, you can’t get work done. The supply rooms are never stocked with what we need: wrap, cleaners, etc. Night shift always has to clean up after morning shift, anything they didn’t feel like doing. We do not have any mechanics on our shift really, so if something goes wrong you as a packaging operator are expected to fix it or you sit there for hours. The mechanics that we do have are burnt out and leaving or have told me they are planning to. So honestly, even though we desperately need mechanics, don’t Apply. They’ll mandate you every single day and expect you to look after all 3 production floors and all their machines. L’Oréal’s biggest emphasis is production and they will badger you if you don’t make that production, even though we literally can’t make production if we don’t have mechanics or supplies. You know why leadership mandates so much? Because the more you produce, the more they make. So don’t overwork yourself to get these guys their bonus, they’re already making triple what you make. It gets to the point where leadership will make you take your break later so you can run someone else’s line through THEIR break just to get an extra 15 minutes of production, all the time. They watch the cameras all the time to make sure that you don’t eat, take too long of a break, or go on your phone. Understandable, but with supervisors doing their rounds every few minutes and a “team” that comes in the morning to shuffle through our trash to make sure we didn’t eat on the floor is excessive. On top of that you’re given 2 15 minute breaks and 1 20 minute. The walk to the break room / off the production floor is about 3-5 minutes. There goes half your break. On top of that, other departments will purposely trigger the gates to prevent you from navigating off the production floor, so you have to wait for the gates to close so you can keep walking. You can’t break in the offices with the couches, kurigs, and fridges with snacks in them though that are on the production floor because that’s not allowed. So you’re supposed to sit on your line and do nothing, because the lines are mostly automatic. You can’t clean the machine much, because well- they’re running. People come and go so much, the turnover rate is terrible. It makes training them pointless, which is another point. There needs to be *DESIGNATED TRAINERS*. You’ll train with a person that doesn’t care about training you or will show you all the wrong ways of running the line. You’ll either train on a line for 2 weeks or 2 hours before you’re expected to run it, no in between. My advice is ACT YOUR WAGE. Do not do the mechanic’s job to make your numbers. Don’t overextend yourself by working through break. Etc. Honestly, don’t be a hard worker. Hard workers have to pick up the slack of everyone else. You’re doing a good job and your expected to learn all these harder lines that always break down, because nobody else wants to. Don’t learn that harder line that nobody else wants to, because while you’re there putting in the effort and learning dozens of lines, someone else will just stay on one line for years because they refuse to go anywhere else. Who are they going to mandate when they need one of those lines run? You, not them. They only know one line. Mandating is a promise. If you’re new, you will get mandated every single weekend and if you’re on 3rd shift, you will have to stay 4 hours over everyday even though morning shift has way too many people. Because again, leadership only cares about money. When it comes to mandating, the new hires are supposed to be mandated, but everyone does all the time. Your employee badge number also won’t work until you email HR about it. Meaning you can’t access the PPI, because it’s locked behind a vending machine that needs your ID. You also won’t get your health insurance deducted from your paychecks until you bring it up. The best is needing to check every single paycheck that comes in, because payroll WILL forget to pay you for some days. We have no time off. You get 2 days for the whole year. The company refuses to give us our BY LAW 5 sick days, so we don’t have the legal requirement of 5 sick days. And the Christmas bonus is only $15. Don’t expect to ever go on vacation or be sick, because that’s not allowed. Have an issue? Our HR department is NEVER in, so good luck getting that sorted out or even getting a response back. In summary, don’t bother applying here unless it’s an office job or something off of the production floor. It’s not worth the stress and when I’m not working, I’m sleeping. I have no life now because of this place. 

Urban Decay was an amazing company to work for. The beauty industry had been something I always wanted to be in ever since I was little and finally a great opportunity to experience my dream came along. A typical day at work was a very very busy day. Even when we had those slow days it was extremely important for all of us to take the initiative to stay busy at all times. On a daily basis we are given sales goals. Our goal is $80/hour so my goal with an 8 hour shift would be $640+ at the end of the day. I learned a lot from this company. For starters, I have always been more on the mellow shy side but this job required you to seriously jump out of your comfort zone and become a social butterfly. We are a "pulling" counter, which basically means that we go out and seek people to put in our seat and have fun with makeup by using their face as your canvas, getting to know them, and in the end, close a sale and hope that they make a purchase. That was something I never thought I could do until I started working there and within about a month of learning as I go, I really got the hang of it and could pull a client within less than a minute. One of the biggest things I learned at Urban was communication skills. I learned how to talk to my employees and clients in a professional, respectful and considerate manner and built relationships of trust between the both of them. I was the unofficial manager in training which meant that I was also learning how to take on a managers responsibilities. I took the initiative to get daily numbers as well as making the counter schedules as well as other paperwork I was assigned to do. Our manager was amazing. She inspired me to become more like her if I ever moved up into a company. She was cool calm and collect and could really draw a line between business and professional. Learning from, shadowing and observing the way she worked was also a huge benefit for me so that I could see what to do and what to not do. Working with Urban was like working with one big family. We all got along amazingly well. If any of us was having a rough day in sales, we used our positive energy to motivate and work as a team to help them. Even though being a makeup artist is extremely competitive, in the end it was our goal that mattered, not individuals so we did all we could possibly do to pick up our other team members when they fell. The hardest part of the job was definitely the stress of not meeting your daily sales goal or meeting your month. Luckily for me, I always met my monthly goal but I learned how important it is to keep your head up no matter how hard times are in the process because there will be better days. I also find that working weekends was a little bit hard for me as well. I am a very family oriented person and weekends are my family days where we all get together and hang out and unfortunately I missed out a lot on that important time to me due to the fact that weekends are mandatory. The most enjoyable part of the job was getting to know new people whether it was your clientele or coworkers there was always something new to learn each and every day. Being a makeup artist was a super fun job. It always kept you busy and excited to see the outcome of peoples opinions of the product and of your artistry whether it was a positive or negative outcome. It really keeps you on your toes. But it was even better working with such amazing people that makes it all the much more enjoyable.

Beware to all who read this! This review will stun you. This is in no way coming from a point of regret for choosing this job; this is strictly coming from an experience standpoint.

The position I applied for, I thought was going to consist of and/or have the opportunity for real entry-level lab wet work and hands on experiments to be done, in addition to what I was told I was going to be doing-crimping hair and making hair swatches for various tests. It did not. I had hoped that down the road I could have gotten into the science behind the tests or solutions applied to the hair, even if just moderately, so I could take with me to my next job saying, "Hey, I've done this," or "Hey, I've calculated that," never happened. I know it was entry level and temporary, but I could've been given more of a challenge. This position, in honest respect, is NOT for anyone who is trying to make a mark in the scientific world and really wanting to become someone, "learn" something (new and applicable) and do something to make a difference. If you just need a job, then it’s great, no pun intended. I felt like it was a slap in the face me having worked so hard for a BS in Biochemistry. On top of that, the person I worked under treated me as if I was some sort of a threat to her and all I was looking for was an enjoyable experience to tell everyone, which I only got less than 5% of the time. The position I had, or rather the things that the scientist only "allowed" me to do, is fit for high school children! I may be exaggerating a bit because the person I worked under was mean, rude, like to play "the blame game", VERY condescending and disrespectful, but what I say and experienced is true. I felt like I had no one to turn to for help. I also felt like cramp a lot of the times when she spoke to me in her disrespectful, condescending way and that my degree and time spent in school were worthless while working with her, but I didn't quit even in times when I felt like she was pushing me to. She wouldn't give me the time of day to learn more. I feel that as a temporary position and a stepping stone into my and other temporary employee future science careers, such a company could've had more opportunity for advancement and/or learning new applicable skills in that position, not just a fill-this-position-until-we-kick-you-out type of mentality. Every person that has worked with her in that position only worked for 1 year, as far as I know. So, "Is it really the technicians, or is it her?" is the question you have to ask.

I give it respect, working for a prominent company such as The L'Oreal Institute for Ethnic Hair and Skin Research is something I had never dreamed of, even if temporary. However, I wouldn't recommend this job to no one I know. Unless, you're fascinated about big names, go for it.

A typical day was a morning filled with recruiting for and/or analyzing studies of products that were tested by consumers and preparing for the lunch rush of interviewing consumers who gave their feedback for product compensation.
-This position was very informative, I not only learned the positives and negatives of products under the L'Oreal umbrella, I also learned how the competitive brands also tested as our studies usually compared our brand to a competitive brand. I also learned how to analyze studies and conduct focus groups which brought alot of awareness to the ways and mentality of the average and not so average consumer. In addition to the opposite side of consumer awareness, being the liason between Marketing and the consumer, I also learned what the process is when Marketing wants to launch a new product and what they do after the analytical reports are delivered to them by us.
-Management seemed to have many years of experience in which they had shared for the benefit of the department/company.
-We had a variety of personalities but we all learned to communicate any differences or concerns within the department. We all understood and respected the fact that everyone is different and maintained a professional, happy and comfortable workplace.
-The hardest or I should say most challenging part of the job was getting as much detail needed during the interviews when the lunch hour rush would come through our center. Most of our consumers only had "less than an hour" to be seen and liked to hurry through the questionnaire not being very detailed. We usually had anywhere from 50-100 people come through. It was important to assure that each and every customer abided by our rules and earned their compensated gifts by supplying us with sufficient detailed information (as requested and agreed) so we could properly analyze their feedback. People can be difficult so my people skills had to be at their best, luckily for me they were.
-There were many things that made the job enjoyable but 2 things that stand out were, 1). Seeing the commercial or advertisement of a product we had previously tested. I felt a self gratifying feeling, knowing I had a participated in making that launch a success. and 2). The appreciation shown by the consumers, (even the difficult ones). They seemed to take a liking to how I handled them, and often asked for me to assist them. I was always pleasant and still maintained my backbone when negative news had to be given to them because it was not our policy. Because of my professionalism they were more accepting of not receiving their request. It was pleasing to know they felt they received the customer service expected from such popular company.

Coworkers are great. 
Management is lost. 
CEO constantly changes their mind on what they want a season to "feel" like.
I was so excited to work for this company. I started as a temporary employee to cover for a woman on maternity leave. A few weeks after she came back to work, she quit so I kept temping...That lasted about 15 months until I was finally hired, (mind you I was promised I would be hired soon for about 9 of those 15 months). 
When I finally was hired I was given a lower title than what I had been for 15 months of temp work. It then took another year to get back to the title I had originally had as a temporary employee.
I had 6 different managers in my 3 years here. Some were asked to leave after costing the company millions, some decided to leave on their own and others were cornered into leaving once the company decided to do a huge restructure. 
My fellow employees would constantly bring up things to managers and HR like, being overworked, working on something for months only to have to redo it several more times because someone somewhere just changed their minds about it one day,  having managers pat us on the head and treat us rudely, having our titles changed without our knowledge, not being appreciated or compensated for our long hours and hard work, hiring people from different states instead of hiring from within, having managers be in constant meetings so there is no one to give direction when needed, being treated like second class citizens by hire ups and people in other departments because of your job title, tons of favoritism, the lack of communication in every department, the lack of employees to do the amount of work being asked of us, everything we had concerns about fell on deaf ears.
It was so sad to see so many people stressing out over makeup. I 100% understand a fast paced work environment but one person here would be doing the job of three because the head count was full. At one point we had someone quit and someone go on maternity leave but we were not allowed to hire anyone to replace or temp for them so we were struggling to do our work and their work as well.
I really thought it would be a fun work environment. The offices are really rad inside, the whole place is purple and there is always something going on somewhere in one of the 6 buildings.
I really hope they get their act together here. This job could be so fun but with the enormous disconnect between CEO, Department heads, Department head assistants, and HR it was a nightmare at the end.

My typical day at work was: working with a salesforce of (6), marketing reports, Creating sales reports and presentations of which were directly overseen by Sales Managers throughout the country and then approved by President of Redken/Loreal haircare. Screening calls, creating Power Point presentations, heavy scheduling both internally and with vendors. Also setting up company dinners/car services/hotels, heavy domestic and international travel along with travel and expense reports. I also set up monthly sales educational conferences locally and yearly Symposium for the whole company along with the other administrative assistants. 

 I am a very fast learner and I learned from my peers and the other assistants to be a team player, how to multi-task, educate myself on the products, learn the office culture, know how/who to get the information that was needed the fastest, worked long hours, not to get involved in workplace gossip, and stay connected to the winners in the departments.  I also tried to take a class in French. 


The hardest part of the job was keeping up with the enormity of mass of numbers and equate them with the sales managers when they would come in once a month for a week. Also, trying to stay out of the gossip in the workplace.  Keeping up with the enormous workload. 


The best part of the job was learning at a Fortune 500 company with Executives who had years of experience and I was learning from them. They were mentoring me and it was very exciting.  I loved going to work everyday and learning something new.  Also, meeting many of the best stylists and colorists in the country and the world was amazing.  I was learning applications and sales/marketing techniques from the best in the world.

Each day is different while working in Foreign Trade Zone. Day to day I have data entry work, along with monitoring deliveries with trucking companies. Every day, I coordinate with other L’Oreal facilities on timely deliveries, tracking of the cargo orders and tariff classification. Work with management on custom issues; interact with airlines, steamship lines and forwarding companies on any freight issues.
I have learned how to manage, prioritize my day to day work. I can make independent decisions regarding issues with any of L’Oreal vendors and custom issues.
I have been working with a great team. We work together in most of the area of this field. We help each other in any new projects and advisement as needed by other L’Oreal facilities and vendors.
Well I have learned and have been taught, no job is hard if you put your mind to it, so rightly saying it sometimes get changeling. I would say it does get very changeling at the time of launches when the manufacturing is under pressure to meet the deadlines. We have to prioritize the work accordingly and have the cargo delivery on time, if it requires late or after work hours. Also working with US customs gets a bit changeling, as we have to work according to what is expected from an importer.
I believe that any job could be enjoyable if your heart is set on it. My job requires customer services skills; you are able to make lot of business contacts, who you work with on daily bases. The nature of the business is lot of communication and networking, you get to meet different people and especially when you are working with US customs. In a nutshell, I would say I enjoy my day to day work, and working in L’Oreal has been a great experience.

My responsibility as a Financial Analyst in L'Oreal corporation forecasting and Budgeting Finance Team on a day to day Operation is to retrieve financial documentation from Business Objects and Convert the Documents into a pivot Table format analyzing and interpreting Actual vs. Budget Comparison.  For an example, I would compare the prior year's Budget to the Present Year's Budget comparison of retained Earnings of How much of the earnings is utilized in a particular area such as Favorable and Adverse Analysis.  The sectors are Direct Materials, Direct Labor, Materials, And Vendor Invoices of Merchandise bought and Sold.  After all of the information gathered and converted into a pivot table format I would prepare a particular Line and bar graph of explanation of how Much budget is remaining in relation to the deviation between Net Income and Revenue.  




The reason for constructing a Pivot Table is to save Time and Effort for Financial Manager, instead of the manager skimming through workbook to workbook of thousands of documents to be approved.  Also we would undergoes a excel test of various formulas such as V-lookups, Sum-if's, and macros to find solutions to our assumptions.  




For Example, as an analyst I had to find out each regions total sales for the month and the total Sales Managers total output on a given criteria.  If a criteria of >=$50,000 is given, then I would perform a V-lookup  Analysis to retrieve all Sale Managers equivalent to the criteria of each Region such as WEST, East, Southeast, North East, South west, And North West.  Finally perform a sum-if Formula to find the total managers output of $50,000.   




A total number of 6 members were involved in a group discussion in the Finance Treasury Team.  We would give our perspective on a particular exception or verification that came along a discussion.  As an analyst I would give my perspective on my thoughts and mindset.

A great company, about a decade or so ago. I work in the warehouse where gratitude is very little for how much it supports the entire manufacturing process. Many of the forklifts and equipment are falling apart, taking literal weeks to get back into service. Any time something major falls apart, we are met with "Its not in the budget to fix it" despite the entire process to create product revolves around said equipment. Any time we ask or inquire about process improvement we are met with "We'll look into it" and its never heard about again.  Communication is horrendous between departments and management. Staffing is a constant issue and the workload never slows down enough to truly catch up. All 3 shifts typically play hot potato with what needs done. There is probably more but these are major issues I have seen during my time. 

The time off is great (3 weeks and 13 paid holidays) and benefits are, decent. However, substantial raises are rare and baseline pay is much lower than competitor pay for similar job roles. Most of middle management is pretty cool and flexible. Despite the chaos, most people and teams are pretty helpful and willing to show you new things to make the job easier. Mandatory overtime is rare but is available if you want it on weekends or during your shift leading into the next. If you need something to hold you over or get more time off, I would recommend it for a short time. Long term I'm not sure if it would be worth it. 

I loved how flexible the job is and you can pick which days are best for you as a freelancer. BUT the hours are extremely unreliable and if its slow managment does not care its a job all about numbers you will be sent home mid shift if you're not on track for your goal. I loved the job at first but after meeting my coworker for the first time and finding out managment had informed my coworker (my managers best friend for many years.) about some personal things we said in a private meeting I was completely turned off. I did confront managment about it and they got super defensive and denied knowing anything personal about me to even tell my coworker  . Mind you this was just ONE incident working for them. When you're working inside ulta or sephoras is a whole other issue because they will work against you becuase they have store goals that they push over whatever brand your freelancing for. They will convert your brand sales to another brand that the store needs instead then making your sales lower and you loose hours. Then any kind of excuse as seen as you not trying hard enough which was ultimately why I separated from urban decay because I had a shift where I ended up being #1 in the district for it being slow mid summer but it wasn't enough to let me keep my hours. Also no discounts gratis is given sparingly compared to others and when I left they were only given a gratis basket out to the person who won a selling event. Over all I tried freelance work and it just wasn't for me. Best of luck.

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