retail assistant manager

assistant manager

sales associate

retail sales associate

store manager

Oakley

If you are a male great place to work, and if you are a manager you can get any samples and even took from any department. And if you report them to HR they fire you, they don't care.
If you are a female and work hard, at the review day, your credit goes to the male employee because they steal it from you, and if you complain to the HR, they would give you the notice!! 3 notices you are out. 
IN MY DAYS;
DON'T EVER COMPLAIN TO HR, THEY FIRE YOU RIGHT AWAY, EVEN IF YOU SEE SOMEONE STEAL FROM THE COMPANY, DON'T BE NAIEV, THEY ARE NOT THERE TO GUIDE THEY ARE THERE JUST TO GET PAID, THEY DON'T CARE.
FACTS; if you are a female and travel and send your report to your male co-worker, and if he is a friend of the manager (which they go out and drink and gamble on Basketball and Baseball during the working days), you will face with people steal your reports and put it under their name and get the credit for the trip. Don't assume the manger would be on your side, NEVER.
The managements are concentrating only on getting samples from the eyeglasses department and they do everything to get one almost every day, no exaggerating. Especially when is yearly parking sale, managers and their friends which they are male employees get 10 tickets and we got 2 tickets.
I had to work there for 7 years and needed the money, for a single mom I had to stay with them. The most enjoyable part was to travel and not being there to directly work with my manager and face the other male co-workers.
I always hated my manager. He had no knowledge but because he was the supervisor friends we had to deal with him for the first 6 months, he was there only just getting samples and traveling all around the world. He would travel first class and stay in the penthouse room hotel and took the male employee as his helper but we had a small budget to travel which it should be economy sit and stay in a regular cheap hotel. Their per diem was twice as ours.
In my days, that was the place for a male; to do nothing and abusing the company and no one cared and the best part was to get the highest raise every year without review. They worked hard, just be friendly, go out drink and gamble sports during the office work.

While working at Oakley Livermore, I am pretty sure my coworkers and supervisors barely cared about me, if at all. I worked hard, always met my sales goals, had great customer service, and did what was asked of me, yet I was treated with little to no respect or recognition. 

There is very little flexibility on hours - management gets upset if you ask to change yours and will never let you get 40+ in a week to prevent you from qualifying as a full time employee. Hours are also used as a reward/punishment for sales - if you don't sell, you don't get hours. I always sold pretty well so this didn't impact me, but I think it made for a very negative work environment. In addition, this is an incredibly sales-driven job, yet there is nothing resembling a sales commission. I get that it's a minimum wage sales job and it's not going to be glamorous, but in my opinion, value allocation and rewards systems in this company are seriously messed up and unfair. In any case, no one asked me what I thought the whole time I was there, so my opinion certainly doesn't matter.

The mall itself is also not the best place to work at generally. It gets incredibly crowded in the summer with international tourists. Parking is impossible during peak hours. I found myself contending with language barriers constantly - which is fine, just very difficult at times. (That's not to mention class barriers - be prepared to be treated like a coat rack and errand boy by rich customers with no respect for a lowly sales associate.)

I'm not sure how my experience compares to others' at this company or in other comparable sales jobs, but I can tell you that working here made me feel like a faceless cog in an eternal sales machine. It definitely could have been worse but I really wish I had kept looking for jobs instead of taking this one.

A typical day at Oakley begins with opening the store, where we count registers, safe, and the deposit for audit purposes. After the store is opened to the public, we start on any task that corporate or the closing manager from the night before have left us. This ranges from counting and processing shipments, switching out marketing campaigns, revamping layouts of the walls, and much more. While with Oakley, I have learned the concept of the customer is always right. This is not because they truly are right but this is to keep customers happy and coming back as repeat customers. Along with this, I have learned how to control situations where the customer is upset with either a product or service and how to make sure they leave in a better light then when they walked through the door. Also, I have learned how to multi-task better. As a manager, sometimes the store gets really busy and I will have to be the coach that sees the bigger picture to better control the situation and make sure employees are where they need to be and doing the things they need to be doing during rushes. The hardest part of this job is occasionally being low on employees to have sufficient coverage on busier days and having to finish specific tasks while helping out with customers. Lastly, the most enjoyable part of the job is being able to share my profound love and interest in the products that we sell at Oakley, and being able to help customers find a product to fit their needs based on their specific activities and hobbies.

• Managed monthly Team Bonus Incentives for Oakley Inc. St. Johns institution
• Responsible for the financial upkeep of monthly goals
• Maintained customer support and communication through appropriate channels
• Evaluated client needs and negotiated the best solutions to their inquiries
• Maintained multifunction Excel spreadsheets to suit the reporting needs of Oakley Inc.
• Supervised directed selling and customer service for Oakley Inc. clients
• Handled a store based and outside sales budget average of 1.2 Million a year.
• Met with the representatives to define new products and their potential benefits
• Managed the sales floor
• Greeted customers into a welcoming atmosphere
• Responsible for informing employees of their proper work schedules and duties
• Supervised Team Members with the goal of providing complete customer satisfaction
• Maintained weekly inventory levels for the entire store.
• Evaluated Team Member sales performance, weekly
• Maintained store appearance and cleanliness according to policy and procedures
• Created and implemented more efficient means of communication between managers and department associates with regards to store updates, sales figures, and price comparison sheets.
• Oakley Inc. Platinum Sales Associate
• Recognized in ‘Oakley Retail Monthly Magazine,' three distinct separate times for the following: promotion(s), Highest UPT, ADS, and MTD company wide.

As someone who has worked there for 8 years I can say that they do not care about you at all, and by “they” I mean the corporate leaders running the company and the HR representatives that are supposed to be there to support you. First off, they don’t pay well and not even close to being competitive in the field for salary. They over work you and expect success, but ultimately just set you up for failure with no resources to help you succeed. They say that you’re voice is heard and they are invested in your success and growth and development but it is all lies. Every employee is treated as disposable and a means to an end. They are hypocritical when it comes to their own standards of ethic and conduct. One employee can be fired for doing something while 100 other employees do the exact same thing without even getting reprimanded. Their is no consistency for how they treat their employees. So you pretty much have to always be walking on eggshells because it doesn’t matter how well you do your job, how hard you work, or how successful you are, they will still find a reason to cut you down. Oakley is a terrible company to work for. 

Oakley was more than a job, it was a way of life.  My coworkers became my family and we worked as a team to drive home the "Beyond Reason" attitude of Oakley.  I learned how to communicate effectively and passionately with customers and built many relationships that translated into out of work relationships.  As a temporary seasonal hire initially, I worked my way up to my current position as a Sales Lead Manager.  I acted as a liason between upper management and sales associates and handled many of the same duties of my superiors. The most difficult part of working at Oakley was learning the ever changing product lines and tehnologies.  However, after awhile, I learned to enjoy the challenge and realized that there were many differnt way in which I could accomplish the task.  Hands down, the most enjoyable part of Oakley is the people; my coworkers and the customers.  Oakley exudes an aura of different, Beyond Reason.  The people I've met have become my closest friends, both coworkers and customres.  I've enjoyed truly grasping the concept of building relationships and I understand completely how to take the lessons learned here and apply them to my future career.

Check the lab for results of ongoing projects, contact clients return calls. Engage in team meetings to discuss current and up coming projects. Meet with clients on location for demonstrations and or resupply of eye ware or clothing. While employed at Oakley I learned a great deal of networking and technical skills related to manufacturing and process of assembly and the relationship of design/research and development. Management was very hands off and allowed me to be creative and try different methods to reach a final project stage. As long as the work was being completed and on time I was free to work with several different departments on a multitude of levels. My co-workers were amazing and brilliant people to work with. Employees are very open and outgoing. The most difficult thing about the job was trying to be reinvent while staying original to the iconic platform. My job was extremely fun, I was always meeting with high profile celebrities and working on movie sets. More than that I was the company and what the company stands for and the ideology behind the company.

The company has two great buildings that make this environment fun to work in... initially. After about 6 months, its a job like others. 

The company has gone through considerable changes in the past 6 months. 90% of the senior leadership was removed from roles. Parent company Luxottica took over management to place the company back in the black after 1.5 years of slow growth. This is not a bad thing because the company was bloated and in need of an overhaul. New leaders have a better business acumen and can likely improve business.

Bad news for those wanting to work there is that the new president likes "young Italian men" for many leadership roles. That's a direct quote from someone close to the matter. 

After the layoffs there's still some great folks passionate about the brand that you can work with in all departments. Pay is low to average for similar roles in the OC. You trade benefits of free & discounted product, great office aesthetics and cool office events for the pay however, the name is great on a resume and has equity with other hiring managers.

Oakley was an amazing place to work, and unfortunately I left my position to move closer to my family. A day at work would consist of providing the best customer service available while maintaining the appearance of the store. I also dealt with handling the deposits and counting the cash registers before and after the store opened/closed. While working at Oakley, I discovered that the best way to make a connection with the customer (and make a sale) was simply to be myself, to create a relationship with said customer and to truly listen to what they were looking for in a product. Not only was the job amazing, but almost all of my co-workers ended up becoming close friends of mine. The atmosphere and philosophy behind the company and way of life allowed the development for strong relationships between not only co-workers, but customers as well. The best part about working for Oakley was getting to interact with some of the most interesting customers on a day-to-day basis.

I have spent almost 4 years at Oakley, I love the products and the people that work with me. I have seen people come and go with time, started as a part time associate and earn full time within 3 months. After earning my full time status, within 8 months was promoted to Sales Floor Manager, currently I manage 35-40 associates but typically 20-30 per shift. There is never a dull moment, simply because our store is in a high traffic area for tourist from all over the world. Cruising through out the few years that I have been with the company, we are more like a family than a
group of coworkers, allowing us to push the limits by helping us take the Top store in the company for 2011. While at Oakley I have built a rapport with my coworkers allowing me to connect with them and help guide them in sales as well as earn enough respect to obtain Manager of the Quater for the first quarter of 2012.

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