Former employee- not impressed - Sales Lead The Impeccable Pig Employee Review

I started as a sales lead in Charlotte, NC. I only worked there a few months before both the manager and assistant manager received jobs elsewhere. I worked part-time since I was a student and had a tremendous load of work laid on me. Upper management never sent in a replacement for them. This caused me to work more hours and my grades began to drop in school as a result. For the last month they were in business, they hired another sales lead (at this point I still had not been notified that the business was closing). We worked for a couple of weeks before they decided to let us know that the store would be closing. We only had about 4 weeks notice and it was during the holidays--which made it EXTREMELY HARD to find a job as other businesses had already hired their holiday staff. When the new sales lead was hired they did not even tell her about the store closing. We were completely left in the dark. As compensation, we were told that management was going to send us starbucks gift cards which we never received. They had cameras where they would sit and watch us work and if we slouched, sat for a brief moment or did anything else they didn't like, they would call the store and correct it. We were not allowed to wear our own clothes, unless it was bought from their store. When we arrived at work we would pick out a outfit from the store, change into it, cut the tags off and wear it all day. When the shift was over we would reattach the tags and hang it back on the rack for a customer to buy. This to me was very repulsive as some days (especially in the summer) it would be hot and we would sweat. But we had to hang it back out on the rack because we were only allowed to spend $25 a week at dry cleaning, which was usually needed for reattaching straps to dresses and fixing items that were broken.