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Most of the employees there are friendly and easy to get along with. The customers are usually friendly, but there are many who are rude and will completely trash the store before the end of the day. Clean up after the store closes can take hours. Employee turn around is fast, even with the management. I don't think there is really any direction for the store because the clothes sell themselves. Currently, the store has completely gone down hill over the past few years. Hopefully management can discover and impliment new hiring policies and competitive wages to turn that around. If you're looking for a full time job here, they don't exist, unless you're a supervisor or manager. You could still work 40 hours per week, but you will be grossly overworked, underpaid, and not receive benefits. The only real reason to work at this store is because you love the brand and enjoy the employee discount. Otherwise, you can get better pay and experience somewhere else.

There was always a changing of employees and management team members at my location. The people that I worked with was awesome and they felt like a family. However, with over 20 managers and supervisors coming and going during my time got the employees to lose respect towards them. Sometimes it felt like sales associates were managing the store better. Moreover, once a manager gets to know you, they would take advantage of your work and get you to do long hours and overnights. Also, in my location, people who worked for 1 year/2+ years were getting paid less then the newcomers. Would go back for my co workers but hate the management team.

Overall decent work environment, first set of management was a bit hostile with each other, resulting in a toxic workplace. Second set was great and a lot was being accomplished with the company and numbers were at an all time low. Lastly, the last set of management experienced was one of strict discipline and little to no tolerance for stepping out of line. The work itself was honest and somewhat rewarding, the team of associates were great to work with and very enjoyable as well. The Job opportunity taught me a lot about a different retail environment than I was used to. The hardest part of the job was how demanding it was with availability and work load, whilst the most enjoyable part being the team of associates.

Varies at every location.  The eaton centre was particularily bad, bad clients, AWFUL management.  Never get breaks and not even allowed to drink water on the sales floor.  Very aggressive sales goals and catty environment only there are no incentives to sell, terrible pay, no commission, bad shifts, no benefits, and heavily micromanaged. Very bad work culture, one of the worst. Bad work life balance as the shifts are always changing and often management would not put out your schedule until the day before the week starts! very frustrating place to work where you dont feel valued and its very obvious from the extremely fast level of turnaround.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Over all environment is good and friendly. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Handling many customers at the same time as it is a very famous and in demand brand 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is Disciplined and friendly. Punctuality is the key. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Organizing the display product, cleaning, folding so the floor looks nice, clean and easy to see the sizes for customers. Also talking to customers and helping suggesting or helping them find what they r looking for

The working environment is toxic. It doesn’t matter how hard you work, as long as you are not the manager’s favorite, you are treated differently. Many people don’t treat their job seriously, managers know that. They don’t do anything about it. Many people gather together to talk, instead of telling people to not to do that, managers join them to talk. Managers would treat you very nicely in front of other people, but when you are alone with them, they are mean to you. Very toxic working environment.

A typical day at Polo would be packed with hundreds of customers. Learned to communicate with different types of people and taught how to be a leader. I was the youngest sales associate there at that time. Very lenient with all customers. Management always wanted us to push for sales. Everyday we would exceed last years goal and the current daily goal given. Hardest part would be how hectic it was. Felt like long days. Most enjoyable was my team and at the end of the day we all were one huge family.

The manager of the store was inconsistent. Would never show up in time for work nor put the effort, yet when she did it was to berate us for missing target and sales. The management team is very pushy towards signing up people for emails and cashiers were put down if they couldn't reach "sign up" targets. The employee turnover, due to bad management and overall bad environment, was so high they hire new batches of employees every two weeks. If you need a quick job while you look around, apply here. Just be aware that will be treated as a tool and not as a person

Ralph Lauren is really fun to work at as my coworkers are so amazing and the management team is also awesome! However, customers here can be really impatient and mean sometimes. Sales associates are underpaid as most have to perform many different tasks at once and the sales goals are unrealistically high most of the time. Despite the cons of this job I would definitely recommend Ralph Lauren to anyone looking to get into retail.  

There is pressure on the stylists even when there is no much clients, which we were encouraged to harass with our help. No client likes to be followed around or constantly watched. Stylists are paid almost minimum wage for selling over 5000$ during an 8 hours shift. No commissions. The employee benefits consist of a 50% off the merchandise which is only a benefit if you are used to shop in their stores.

However, they teach good selling techniques which can be useful for future retail jobs.

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