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European Wax Center

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Lost values - Wax Specialist European Wax Center Employee Review

2.0
Jun 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My coworkers and absolutely nothing else.

Cons

I work for this company for 6 years. It is totally different that it was when I started. The company used to believe in giving the BEST wax. Then money got in the way. They took their amazing products and ruined them. All of their products are fragrance and water now. I think they forget that we are estheticians. All they care about is you selling them. They only care about product sales! They used to have the best wax. Funny thing is they think we are stupid and don't notice that they are cheapening their wax product. It's absolutely terrible now. Hard to work with, more painful. I believed in this company for years. Now they are all about selling products. It's not even about waxing anymore. They work their waxers to the bone, they are underpaid, they threaten your job if you don't sell their crappy products. It's sad. Not worth it.

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Cons

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Cons

I’ve been made to work 6 days a week, opening shift after closing shifts to make up for hiring only 2 other GSA’s who have no availability so everything rides on me and if I’m sick I get reprimanded. Policies are not explained most of the time and they get upset after the fact if you aren't aware of them. It’s almost impossible to ever make commission since prices are unrealistic and the tedious work is only paid minimum wage. They say the most important duty is wax pass sales but set the bar too high. They watch your every move and take pictures of you for the littlest of things, I got in trouble for eating even though I was off the clock 30 mins before I opened shop. Most of the time manager duties fall on GSA’s and it’s almost impossible to use time off even though waxers and managers do it regularly. There’s been multiple instances of employees being endangered and assaulted, threatened, and 2 instances of GSA’s being unalived at work yet take no action to prevent this or keep us feeling safe even though they say they will. My center has water dripping in a bucket in our hallway regularly, we have to manually turn on the electric box every morning and sometimes our hall light doesn’t turn on. Our outlets have caught up in flames. We have product droughts for weeks and aren’t given cleaning products for weeks on end.

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