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Honey Birdette

I have worked with the company for a few years now, 
In the beginning it seemed amazing, women empowerment, the wage, the incentives. soon realized what this meant. 

women empowerment actually means:  if your under the size 14 bracket 

wages : great, but only to realise its because your casual, they change your roster just before the 24 hours mark is up and then don't contact you when you have questions about. 

Communication is a ZERO!  

bullying policy : bullying is tolerated as long as you make your budgets

budgets: achievable, but days where no one has come in and a girl has a few  $100 left to make and feels the pressure to have to purchase items full-price so she can keep a shift? does that seem fair, specially if other girls are in the same boat but cant afford to pay their way out. 

 
The girls that all work together are lovely but they don't stay long because they don't have the time to deal with petty companies. 

I have stayed in hope to change the way others see the company, i have tried to put my foot forward but you can only get anywhere if your a Follower. 
I also have stayed because the lack of knowledge and teaching some of these girls  have, is appalling and people need correct information. 
You try to help them and they just tell management and you lose a shift. 

They have replaced experience women with 18 year girls that have no experience or anything but in the words of management "honey birdette is now targeting a different demographic" 

We all used to look different ,now, you walk in we all look the same, same selling, same hair, same smile just reeks of FAKE

Great if your looking for unstable on call hours
and other companies actually have a respect for girls that come out of honey because they are aware of the environment

I was in HB for a little of 2 months before i was fired.I was fired for my ''Uniform'', However i have a lot of trouble accepting that reason for my dismissal.The environment is Catty/Petty and if you don't fit in. You won't be treated like a 'Honey'.

I had certain issues one morning getting into work because my car broke down, There was no trainstation in walking distance to me , all stations were 30+ minutes away. I called my Area manager (who i will name as 'K'), K proceeded to yell at me saying 

''I've got a lot of stuff to do today!  You can't do this to me! Get to a trainstation! I'm two hours past the city ! I dont have time for this!''

Now let's proceed to why i was dismissed, I was dismissed because my pants were flare formal pants, HB only accepts Straight cut formal pants. I didn't know this until a co-worker who i will call 'L' mentioned it to me. But because my Area manager -K and my store manager at the time wore them, i thought it was fine to wear them too. But i was the one fired at the end of the day.

And L, has gone to my Area manager K, and has dropped a few lies which K had come to me and openly admitted to me about where these accusations came from, I spoke to K addressing each and every accusation. But i dropped it after i spoke to my AM, afterall she's the one i answer to.

I personally , in all honesty loved that store and frandschise , especially making woman feel amazing in lingerie. But the whole franchise is a mirage, a pure lie.

There was a list when i worked that was sent to everyone, basically who made how much money for HB. It basically would name everyone who got the lowest amount of money until the people who got the highest amount of money.

Also, No security. Cameras are only outside the store, No cameras were put in place to watch what happens in the store. (Many cases of disrespectful clients,sexual assault/ attempted sexual assault. These stories i've heard from Ex-Honeys. Who were also told to ''Get over it.'')

They lack plus size options, Honestly HB. It's 2018, Get some larger sizes.

While working there I had a state manager talk to me about the “gossip” happening in other states and stores. She spoke so badly about staff and would always put girls against each other. HB don’t care about female empowerment and it’s evident from how they treat their employees. I had 3 manages over the course of my year long employment and 2 out of 3 cried after being put down by upper management so often. All of the rumours about how they treat their employees are true and it disgusts me. The staff turnover is so quick that it’s insane! When working for HB, they said their “payslip system” was “not working” so I never saw a single payslip despite myself and other staff asking for MONTHS so we could do our taxes! Not to mention that the owner of HB goes to other lingerie brands to get “samples”... as if it wasn’t blatant enough already that all the lingerie is just complete copies of other brands. While working there they did “random spy checks” where they’d tell you that people from head office would walk past the store to make sure you were in stilettos at all times. Once I was in flat shoes because my feet can’t last a 9 hour shift in heels (kitten heels weren’t allowed btw - they had to be high heels) and a maintenance man from had office fixed something in our store. After he left I had a call from head office getting me in trouble for not wearing heels!!! All the girls I worked with just hated the company by the end of it. I don’t know a single person who has left HB actually being happy with their experience. 

Save yourself the grief and work somewhere else. The long hours being forced to only wear heels and the stress is not worth it.

I don’t think I have one good thing to say about this company - even the novelty of dressing up wares off, the 40% discount isn’t even that great and you have to fight tooth and nail to win any kind of incentive - one in which I won and they didn’t follow through with the win. They don’t care about “female empowerment” which they seem to go on about constantly, and this was pretty evident in the time I was there where I was put in some uncomfortable situations. One incident being with a male customer who was inappropriate on multiple occasions. When I went to report the situation to upper management was told “it is what it is, nothing we can do about it” and she laughed it off. They are so inconsistent with uniform and standards across the company. I was picked on for the middle of my bra showing and yet managers will parade around with barely their nipples covering. I went through 4 managers in the year I was there so that clearly shows how poorly you are treated. You are made to change lightbulbs (not part of the job description) and if you are a casual or part time worker expected to spent hours on “impeccable makeup” for a 3 hour cover shift and criticised if your makeup or hair doesn’t meet expectations. Unless you’re prepared to join a cult like environment and live and breath the brand then this job isn’t for you

They claim to focus on customer service and making the customer feel beautiful and empowered, and yet they are happy to sell them lingerie that doesn't fit. They also encourage pushing sales to customers until they finally give up and don't purchase anything at all.

If you don't make your budget you are taken off the roster by higher management. You only receive benefits and discounts after a month because they are so worried you are going to leave within the month.

They treat staff like we are nothing as they are happy to give you `uniform violations' if your nails are the wrong colour. 

Higher management will do anything to lie and cover themselves, just to make more sales and make over their budget. 

Not to mention the strain wearing stilletos to work place on your back, if you don't wear stilletos (even with a medical certificate) you get bullied by higher management.

They also expect you to do homework every week which as a Uni student I don't have time to do ontop of assignments.

Honey birdette is the worst place I have ever worked at and I write this review so no one else has to be put through this. 

DO NOT WORK HERE!!!!!

The work culture at Honey Birdette is like no other. If you’re not prepared to manipulate and seduce customers for their money, don’t bother applying. Managers have no sort of control or authority - area managers are in charge of everything, leaving you forgotten as they are in charge of too much. Ridiculous budgets and targets are set in place - unreasonable expectations are set daily, without consideration of the socio-economic area your store is situated in. Be prepared to be constantly harassed by management as to why you’re not making enough money - if customers don’t enter the store, this is YOUR fault, YOU are not doing enough to entice people into the store, despite the ridiculous prices being charged per item for such poor quality lingerie (it’s claimed to be “luxury” yet all made in China). I felt under constant stress working in this position, for a company that claims to be so “empowering” they do a good job at making their staff feel inadequate and pathetic. This company does not want to help their customers, they want their money.

You will be expected to push customers into purchasing things that don’t fit them right to hit unrealistic sales targets. You’ll also be encouraged to add them on your social media to develop VIPs/regulars. 
If you can’t stand to backstab others to advance this isn’t the job for you. If you are a casual and there is a customer complaint that could be about you or a higher up staff member as you both worked that day and the customer wasn’t specific, you as the casual will be blamed as you are expendable. 
It is a very catty and backstabbing environment, with a revolving door of managers. They as a business will not accomodate a work/life balance and if you are unwell it is very hard to get sick leave.  You will also always be expected to stay back and help unpaid and if you don’t you are bullied.

I have overall loved working at honey although I definitely just got lucky with the store I work at and the girls that work with me. Management is an absolute mess and extremely unreliable. They have recently been trying to pin employees against eachother and make us compete for better kpis. The actually job is fairly easy although you definitely have to be able to deal with rude customers as well as comments from people as they walk past the store. As long as you are comfortable sticking up for yourself I would recommend this job. You truly meet some incredible people and learn lots. Due to each store only having 5 girls max (mine currently only has 3) each employee is taught almost everything needed to run the store which is amazing.

I received a job here during Christmas period last year and I worked 5 days of training and they just stopped rostering me on and wouldn’t answer my calls or emails, and never paid me. They did so because they found out I had a second job and weren’t happy with it. They told me it was okay in the beginning, but then the manager decided to change her mind I guess? Never paid. Never compensated for my time and I even worked on my birthday. Have contact upper management many times just to be ignored. I’ve heard bad things about working for the company before, but didn’t think it would happene to me. Low and behold, they have bad rep for a reason! Don’t bother working here, staff are disposable and they don’t care.

Management is so money hungry they will find any reason to fire you if you don't continuously make your KPI's. Company mentality is to push sales onto customers until they buy even if they don't want it. Claim to care about customers and feminism but only care about making money. You will be anxious everyday to make sales otherwise you are alienated. Constantly have new area managers, who come in thinking they know everything yet don't know a thing about the store. 
You will be told to sell items as being "high quality" yet made in china. the company is bogus.

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