Dysfunctional & incompetent - Shop Manager Lush Employee Review

1.0
26 Sept 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- possible bonus when financial targets are reached - 40% discount on products - possibility to get samples from everything and take home damaged products

Cons

- maintaining a healthy work-life-balance gets actively discouraged by management (everybody is expected to work/be available 5 days a week) - bullying culture, the CEOs frequently gossiped about absent staff on manager meetings or riddiculed them. - disorganisation at the top level, conflicting information about practices, often late/incomplete information for new product launches, wrong/missing information about ingredients and product prices. - shop managers are pressured into terminating employees for illegal reasons (taking care of sick child, mothers in general, personality). - huge staff turnover in general, which gets actively encouraged and facilitated by top level management. - constant control/surveillance of staff

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Cons

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