H&M reviews

Area management-nothing is ever enough for them, I’ve experienced being taken into the office after starting my shift at 6am with no breaks in order to make the store look as good as possible for the area team, only to be screamed at, belittled and made feel like a generally terrible person for my work not being good enough, this resulted in me doing a full 12 hour day with over two hours of this sitting in the office to receive feedback (a poor excuse to scream at myself and the rest of the management team as opposed to help a clearly understaffed store for two hours). They ask us as stores to give them direct feedback whilst they slate us in store and tear apart all your hard work in a rude and disgusting way, do you honestly think we’re going to turn around be like ‘oh yes you’ve just torn me apart and told me I’m severely underperforming (their way of threatening your job), but here’s some feedback about how rude you are’? Honestly we all know this isn’t going to happen, you have enough reviews here to make a list of feedback for yourselves to work on, which to be honest begs the question of all of YOUR performance as an area team. Snap out of it - lose your goddam snobby attitudes. Help your stores more. Retrain yourselves or do a course in people management. Find new jobs. Nobody really cares what you as a team do because the damage is done.

The area time in Ireland are at the centre point of all the reasons H&M has become such an awful place to work. They are bullies. Whenever they arrive in store the tension that comes with it is horrific for staff and management. They point out and nit-pick every single thing in store and never offer solutions to help achieve what 'they' want. They are also never on the same page which is very frustrating for us in store..one member of area team can have an opinion on something and want it changed, so it's done to their individual liking. But the following day another member could be in store and want the same thing done a different way. It's double jobbing and with the staff levels we have in store it's just unnecessary stress again for us. On numerous occasions area team members visiting the store criticise how little staff there is on the day, they see big q's at the cashdesk, busy fitting rooms and staff under a lot of pressure. But never offer to help, it's like it's above them because they work in an office now rather then a store, which doesn't really follow our 'we are one team ' value. From my own negative experiences with an area team member, I have re-thought my whole career as a manager in H&M. I am a loyal, hard working employee but that doesn't seem to matter here, as nothing is ever good enough, not even your very best. Work load and working conditions in H&M is unimaginable. It's disgraceful that one of the biggest retailers in the world won't install working air conditioning in store. Avoid this company at all costs, it is not a fun and great place to work despite what H&M say.