retail sales associate

sales assistant

retail assistant manager

concession manager

visual merchandiser

Seed Heritage

What is the best part of working at the company?
Constantly given menial tasks; most of my sales were taken over by management; spoken to in a derogatory tone by management; talked about behind my back.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Constantly being put down by management throughout each shift. I always performed in a professional and timely manner and yet nothing I achieved was good enough. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The store I worked in was negative however on occasion I worked in other branches and it was happy and positive. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrived at each shift in a positive mindset only for it to turn negative within minutes.  Directed to put clothes away, fold for hours then take away the rubbish. When I had the opportunity to sell and liaise with customers, the  sale was taken away from me when I arrived at the register.

A typical day at work involves basically just standing around and folding/fixing clothes as well as working with customers in fitting rooms and on the sales floor. Most customers at my location seem to have a good idea of what they are looking for, and usually will only ask for help if they need different sizes or couldn't find what they were looking for themselves. We get weekly shipment in but usually the stock room assistant and managers work on that, so I'm usually just at the front of the store greeting and working with customers. 
There are little to no hours as of right now, it has been really hard to work around such inconsistent and unreliable hours of work so I am currently trying to find a full time position. This time of year is always so hard for retail. Last year when I was a manager, I remember how much of an issue scheduling was because we had such few hours to give out to our team and it upset a lot of our employees, so I totally get it. I just need more consistency and would like to move out of retail.

This place is a pool of untrained store managers area managers that sit on their butts all day and take up space in your tiny back room making it difficult to do your job, talking on the phone all day area manager doesn’t lift a finger most of the time.  Can’t get time off as it’s always understaffed and they take so long to hire people. I’ve heard the area manager talk poorly of other staff in other stores. Inflexible. High work load not enough staff or wage budget to get through it all in a high standard. Manager doesn’t train new staff. Poor communication often only ever communicating to everyone through a book. It’s horrible sess pool of bullying behaviour from all managers

Stay away from this company! The company does not care for its staff, they treat you like dirt. They will spite you over holidays even though they have heaps of casual to cover for you. They make you find someone to cover your shift if your sick. They will not serve you if you come into work out of the hours of 11-3. They discriminate over religious holidays. the area manager does nothing. ALL Managers gossips to casual staff. Overall it's a horrible environment as they encourage bullying and turning staff against one another. They do not train the casuals properly and only care about budgets not about mental health. They would rather externally hire than internally. They roster you on even if you have uni. There is zero communication.

How NSW state management still has their job is an outrage. Their idea of management is to have team members fear them not respect them. No supportive or acknowledgement for growth. There ads for roles are full of lies. There is NO support from higher management. Only agreessive micro management. Meeting are called to talk about bad preformance and then there is no support or training afterwards. State management degrade, blame, manipulate and ignore staff. Owners have done nothing about this heinous work environment or NSW state management.

I really enjoyed working for this company , each day was fast paced and busy; there was always something to do.  I became close with the people that i worked with, having a great relationship with my staff made the atmosphere in the store much more comfortable and relaxing for customers. I am glad i enjoyed working for seed as i put so much time and effort into improving the company and the way the store was run. I will always go the extra mile for a customer , my main aim is to make people smile and leave happy and content.

I love seed, I've been working in Perth for seed for almost 1yr. I work in all the northern stores so I'm constantly moving around, which I love because it's different people and different stores so it's something new each time. The pay is great, the company is flexible with your availability and the managers are fair and helpful. upper management is a bit unreliable, they say they're going to do something and never do it or get in touch with you, at least that's my experience but overall a good company to work for.

If you enjoy being paid minimum award (and heavens forbid you do an hour of overtime), bullying culture, being micro managed and pressured to the point of breaking your mental health then this money hungry company is the one for you! Not to mention they expect you to be an emotionless robot (the state manager said this to me herself, how lovely). Seed drained the soul out of me and i would not recommend it to anyone unless you quite literally have no other option.

There is no work/ life balance with this company. If you are a manager, you are expected to work all the shifts yourself, and if you are a casual, they dont give you more than 15 hours a week.
The area manager for  Cairns needs to be replaced immediately, because her attitude, and work ethic are not at all what it should be, for an area manager, and whilst this particular area manager holds a position with this company in north qld, you will never have professional support, from this company.

I have worked for Seed Heritage for 5 months as a Part Time Sales Assistant where I helped my Store Manager during the everyday operations of the store. I assist customers by helping them out if they are having a hard time looking for gifts to be given to babies, I would also suggest some of our latest pieces. Whenever my Manager is away, I take over and act as an Acting Store Manager as well since she has also trained me with the intricate part of Retail so whenever she's away I would know how to manage the shop.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Retail sales associate 10 salaries reported	$28.30 per hour
Sales assistant 1 salary reported	$30.00 per hour
Retail assistant manager 5 salaries reported	$1,000 per week
Concession manager 4 salaries reported	$50,750 per year
Visual merchandiser 3 salaries reported	$54,667 per year

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