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The Uniform Outlet

I worked there for 4 years...they will work you to death with little payroll to split between employees...you get 45 hours that you must work..and only get 45 to split between 3-4 people which doesnt help when people want to work more than 10 hours a week. The stores are only in malls and most of the malls are ridiculous depending on who manages it. You must work on Thanksgiving even though it is slow. You must obtain accounts or offices that will buy directly from you.  You must go marketing once a month. You also must do overnight inventory every three months mostly by yourself.  You will mostly work alone period. Not enough pay for the job.The only good thing is if you're a store manager you make your own schedule but are required to work a Saturday or Sunday every pay period. Health insurance isnt bad but has a high deductible. District and regional managers are a joke and do not keep you in the loop hole about anything and then just spring things on you. Expect to work long hours in the summer. The no return policy causes a lot of angry customers. They give you no leeway to help a customer out when it comes to their policy. If you dont have kids or alot going on this is the work place for you.

When I first started at the uniform outlet, I was very hopeful to find a job I loved.  If I would have paid attention I would have left sooner, but I stayed.  Overall, the uniform outlet company is really great! This store however is not, it's always slow people don't know the store is even there.  You receive an overabundant amount of clothing that you no longer have room for. The managers do not stay the same for long.  If they are, they're overworked and tired and tend to be really hateful towards other employees.  Most of the Coworkers I had acted like it was high school instead of a business and I don't know if it has something to do with our ages, but it is tiring.  If you work a shift alone, you have to lock the door every time you go to the restroom, you don't get a break you have to eat "On the fly." You do not receive benefits for running deposits or taking orders to the post office like the employee handbook claims. That only implies to full time employees.  Although my experience wasn't all bad and I did meet great people it just isn't a place to work if you're looking for something less stressful. 

My typical work day, I would come to work and unlock the door, turn lights on. Get the register going and put in the cash for the day. Fill out morning paper work, turn the music on. Then walk the store to make sure nothing is out of place. Then unlock the door and be open for business. I learned how to take care of a store on my own and take care of all the customers that came in. I learned how to cash people out, and assist customers with anything needed. Putting in an personal orders for customers. I also learned how to stock product on the floor. If I was closing at night, I would clean the entire store and lock up. My manager was an incredible lady. She trained me and if I had any issues at the store I was able to call her at any time with any questions or concerns. 
Being my first job it did get tough once in awhile but I learned out to control situations and handle things better as I went along. I enjoyed working on my own it gave me the opportunity to take on responsibility and I really enjoyed it.

I was poorly trained due to the fact that my direct manager had a life change. When I reached out for help it was inconvenient and I was made to feel that it was inconvenient for me to be asking for help. Even when the owner of the company called me to tell me how great a job myself and my crew were doing My direct management felt like it wasn't enough. When I had to reach out to HR for help my area manager was told and took it personally and made my job completely miserable for not only myself but also for my employees. On my last check they refused my sick time and vacation time which would have covered my entire check during which I was having surgery and did not give me my full pay. The turnover rate is very high and they do not value their employees. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people and the focus based sales.
It’s really important to have the right people by your side the

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Transfers and figuring out were to put them you will get transfers from other stores things that don’t sale at there store might sale well at yours. But it’s really not that bad I enjoy it.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Easy going you come in do your work, talk to you’re customers make those sales make sure you customers are happy and know you are the store to come to. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Came in do my reports read email talk to management make sure the store is up to standards work on shipment work with customers shift things around so it might sale better work with my employees so they can do their jobs better

What is the best part of working at the company?
Best part about working here was the people that worked in the store.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Most stressful part about this company is they will try to hold you accountable for their lackluster, marketing attempts and prices of product that are about the same as what you can purchase online anywhere and then wonder why they’re losing sales

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There is no structure from upper management. It’s more of a sinker swim kind of situation you get trained for two weeks and then that is all.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical day days is like most retailers working out freight in tending to customers and cleaning up around the store

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing  the managers were horrible the store was run poorly. The pay was sad but they expected you to work open to close !

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to run the store alone not knowing much being held accountable for missing items or money when you worked alone. They take it out of pay if shoplifter took on your shift 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Poor sad unfair customers are amazing but not the store owners or so call supervisor s that came from other states 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Open. Run store alone made deposits cleaned stocked closed all alone .

What is the best part of working at the company?
I have to say that there were not any best parts. The store was totally unorganized, Staffing was certainly an issue and I'm not sure that the managers ever got any help from corporate.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I hired in at approximately 15 hours per week. But because of staffing issues I received the key to the store which ended up meaning that I could be scheduled open to close and have the same responsibility as the manager or assistant manager had. From what I understand that store had a high turnover but that could be true of other Uniform Outlet stores also I don't know.

I am so grateful to work for such a wonderful company. Working at the corporate office (home office) for over six year, I have found the job and office atmosphere very enriching and welcoming. Flexibility of hours is helpful with work life balance.  The management team is easy to approach with new ideas to help improve day to day store operations.  My fellow corporate coworkers are great to work with and make a positive impact on operations.  It’s very much a team atmosphere in the office along with our store manager and sales associates. Hard work does not go unnoticed and rewarded.  

Although I did not chose to make this setting my career, I would have stayed forever had I not desired to earn my degree.  I loved my job at The Uniform Outlet.  I enjoyed the people and it offered a great atmosphere.  I would go back in a heartbeat if they needed me to.

A typical day would be closing the books for their 20 stores.  Whether it be month-end or year-end, they were so organized and all of the employees worked so hard to keep it that way, it was usually a pretty enjoyable task.  Believe me, there were some hard ones, but that just added to the enjoyment of my position at TUO.

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