Abercrombie & Fitch ripoff on overtime pay and hellacious working hours at least 50-60 hours a week. Nationwide
Managing at Abercrombie & Fitch can basically be described as hell! You are required to work at least 45 hours a week, but it always ends up being much longer, at least 50-60 hours a week.
You would think you'd be paid proper overtime for this. Oh no, except for in the state of California, you are paid half of your regular hourly wage for each our of overtime worked. Yes, you read that correctly. HALF of your hourly wage. So if you make, let's say, $11 an hour, you get paid $5.50 for every hour of overtime you work. And you end up working a LOT of overtime, let me tell you. And you don't have weekends off. It's almost impossible to get two consecutive days off!
So basically, you have no life. It's great.
Amy
Kansas City, Missouri
U.S.A.
11 Updates & Rebuttals
Cat
Hendersonville,Tennessee,
U.S.A.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.......
#12Consumer Suggestion
Wed, November 05, 2008
My husband has been in retail for all the 27 yrs of our marriage. Welcome to retail! Either you never have managed a store or you do not know alot about managing stores. Most retail stores pay a flat yearly salary. You do not get over time pay at ANY rate, so it would not matter what the pay is because you would only be recieving your salary. Secondly, you should count your blessings because most retail stores work their managers more like 90 hours a week, every day the schedule changes and forget about having even 2 days off a week! So count your blessings because you should be thrilled you are ONLY working 50 hours a week. Shoot, you have so much time left in your day you could pick up a part time job! Count your blessings as some people would pay dearly to have your job at this time in our society.
Cat
Hendersonville,Tennessee,
U.S.A.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.......
#12Consumer Suggestion
Wed, November 05, 2008
My husband has been in retail for all the 27 yrs of our marriage. Welcome to retail! Either you never have managed a store or you do not know alot about managing stores. Most retail stores pay a flat yearly salary. You do not get over time pay at ANY rate, so it would not matter what the pay is because you would only be recieving your salary. Secondly, you should count your blessings because most retail stores work their managers more like 90 hours a week, every day the schedule changes and forget about having even 2 days off a week! So count your blessings because you should be thrilled you are ONLY working 50 hours a week. Shoot, you have so much time left in your day you could pick up a part time job! Count your blessings as some people would pay dearly to have your job at this time in our society.
Syracuseabercrombust
Baldwinsville,New York,
U.S.A.
If it's the state--- New York must have the same issues!!
#12UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, November 05, 2008
I totally agree with this posting. I doubt they chop pay in half in order to follow some kind of state guideline. If you haven't noticed--- they got their pants sued off recently over countless discrimination issues! I didn't even have to show up to court out in California for the Gonzalez vs. Abercrombie case....they sent me a check based on the explanation I wrote in a letter!!! They not only chop your pay in half during overtime work (AS IF WE WANT to be there working overtime!!!), they give you unrealistic daily responsiblities. Don't get me wrong-- you don't have to be a genius to run this place but when the manager quit and I was getting MIT (manager in training) pay for MONTHS, even though I was doing FULL duties of manager and assistant manager--- it's just ridiculous.
Wait, my favorite part was the first line out of the manager's mouth who was training me in the beginning: "We only hire good looking people. That's how we advertise. We have to constantly be looking for hot young people to work here. If they show up with a fat friend, we take their resume but just shove it in the file."
I have not purchased a SINGLE item from that store since. The only reason I did while I was working was because we HAD to for a uniform........that 20% discount knocked that $120 pair of pants into a whopping $96. What a bargain!!!!!!!
Syracuseabercrombust
Baldwinsville,New York,
U.S.A.
If it's the state--- New York must have the same issues!!
#12UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, November 05, 2008
I totally agree with this posting. I doubt they chop pay in half in order to follow some kind of state guideline. If you haven't noticed--- they got their pants sued off recently over countless discrimination issues! I didn't even have to show up to court out in California for the Gonzalez vs. Abercrombie case....they sent me a check based on the explanation I wrote in a letter!!! They not only chop your pay in half during overtime work (AS IF WE WANT to be there working overtime!!!), they give you unrealistic daily responsiblities. Don't get me wrong-- you don't have to be a genius to run this place but when the manager quit and I was getting MIT (manager in training) pay for MONTHS, even though I was doing FULL duties of manager and assistant manager--- it's just ridiculous.
Wait, my favorite part was the first line out of the manager's mouth who was training me in the beginning: "We only hire good looking people. That's how we advertise. We have to constantly be looking for hot young people to work here. If they show up with a fat friend, we take their resume but just shove it in the file."
I have not purchased a SINGLE item from that store since. The only reason I did while I was working was because we HAD to for a uniform........that 20% discount knocked that $120 pair of pants into a whopping $96. What a bargain!!!!!!!
Syracuseabercrombust
Baldwinsville,New York,
U.S.A.
If it's the state--- New York must have the same issues!!
#12UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, November 05, 2008
I totally agree with this posting. I doubt they chop pay in half in order to follow some kind of state guideline. If you haven't noticed--- they got their pants sued off recently over countless discrimination issues! I didn't even have to show up to court out in California for the Gonzalez vs. Abercrombie case....they sent me a check based on the explanation I wrote in a letter!!! They not only chop your pay in half during overtime work (AS IF WE WANT to be there working overtime!!!), they give you unrealistic daily responsiblities. Don't get me wrong-- you don't have to be a genius to run this place but when the manager quit and I was getting MIT (manager in training) pay for MONTHS, even though I was doing FULL duties of manager and assistant manager--- it's just ridiculous.
Wait, my favorite part was the first line out of the manager's mouth who was training me in the beginning: "We only hire good looking people. That's how we advertise. We have to constantly be looking for hot young people to work here. If they show up with a fat friend, we take their resume but just shove it in the file."
I have not purchased a SINGLE item from that store since. The only reason I did while I was working was because we HAD to for a uniform........that 20% discount knocked that $120 pair of pants into a whopping $96. What a bargain!!!!!!!
Sherri
Piedmont,California,
U.S.A.
Sounds like the issue is with the state, not the company.
#12Consumer Comment
Fri, June 11, 2004
Though I agree totally that it is ridiculous to pay 1/2 of your hourly pay per hour of OT, that isn't the company's fault, if they are within the law. Sounds like the law should be changed.
I would, however, question whether or not you can be forced to work more than 40 hours per week. I know, at least in California, mandatory overtime is illegal.
Sherri
Piedmont,California,
U.S.A.
Sounds like the issue is with the state, not the company.
#12Consumer Comment
Fri, June 11, 2004
Though I agree totally that it is ridiculous to pay 1/2 of your hourly pay per hour of OT, that isn't the company's fault, if they are within the law. Sounds like the law should be changed.
I would, however, question whether or not you can be forced to work more than 40 hours per week. I know, at least in California, mandatory overtime is illegal.
Sherri
Piedmont,California,
U.S.A.
Sounds like the issue is with the state, not the company.
#12Consumer Comment
Fri, June 11, 2004
Though I agree totally that it is ridiculous to pay 1/2 of your hourly pay per hour of OT, that isn't the company's fault, if they are within the law. Sounds like the law should be changed.
I would, however, question whether or not you can be forced to work more than 40 hours per week. I know, at least in California, mandatory overtime is illegal.
Sherri
Piedmont,California,
U.S.A.
Sounds like the issue is with the state, not the company.
#12Consumer Comment
Fri, June 11, 2004
Though I agree totally that it is ridiculous to pay 1/2 of your hourly pay per hour of OT, that isn't the company's fault, if they are within the law. Sounds like the law should be changed.
I would, however, question whether or not you can be forced to work more than 40 hours per week. I know, at least in California, mandatory overtime is illegal.
Jamie
Kansas City,Missouri,
U.S.A.
Ridiculous and unfair, but legal.
#12UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, June 10, 2004
California is the only state in which you get time and a half for overtime in Retail.. the other 49 states only get half time. I researched it and it's totally legal. Ridiculous and unfair, but legal.
Michelle
San Francisco,California,
U.S.A.
Just want to clarify California's overtime laws
#12Consumer Suggestion
Thu, December 18, 2003
In the State of California, you are paid time and a half for overtime worked. So, if you make $11 a hour regularly, you'd make $16.50 an hour overtime, not $5.50 an hour, as the previous poster said.
Please check your paystubs to be sure you were paid for the correct overtime pay.