Should i work at abercrombie or hollister

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We offer great opportunity in technical support as a first career in IT industry. Check the list for various offer! I would describe the look as becoming less associated with a brand and more conducive to the lifestyle of someone who's young, someone who pays attention to trends, someone who isn't too, too polished.

Abercrombie has always been about walking that fine line between polished and a little bit edgy. It definitely has more of a West Coast, chill vibe.

Up until recently they didn't sell black. Black is a very statement color for the East Coast, but it's definitely not a trademark of the West Coast style. I think Abercrombie is really bred from the West Coast. What do you think of the clothes? To be honest, before I started working there, I wore their jeggings, but I didn't really like the whole moose logo.

I didn't have any appreciation for that. I have a simple, polished style, and I wear a lot of black. But when I got the job, I started finding little things around the store that I like.

Probably fewer than I think four of those are jeggings. I have this jumpsuit in a floral print that's very subtle and not completely in your face like a lot of the floral prints that Abercrombie uses. It's one of my favorite things to wear. I just throw a cardigan over it and wear it to work when it's nice out. Do you ever work on the men's side of store? Yes, I work on the women's side, the men's side, and at the cash register.

How do you help the guys find what they need? Helping male customers is always great because I do a lot of flirting, to be honest. Just because it's so much easier to sell to a guy if you tell them they look good in what they're wearing, whereas with a girl, it isn't always so cut and dry because they can be more particular about the fit of clothing and colors. Guys are so easy. Guys come in all the time and ask me really basic questions about clothing, and I'm just like, "Oh my gosh, I can help you!

Come with me," and I'll just take them around the store and give them things to try on and it usually works out pretty well for them in the end. What was that like?

Being hit on while I'm working is always super uncomfortable because I'm the kind of person who wants to hit him with a sassy, witty remark, but I have to remember that I'm at work and I have to uphold the level of customer service that we have at Abercrombie. Usually when I do get hit on at work, I try to laugh it off or deflect the attention.

Sometimes if it's busy and I'm being hit on, I'll find someone else who needs my help and focus on that. What was your creepiest experience getting hit on at the store? I had a guy who had come into the store before and hit on me and had just been very creepy. I came in to open the store once with my manager.

We go in and keep the doors locked until it's time to actually open for customers. I was in the front of the store vacuuming, and this guy who I recognized who had tried to hit on me before walked past the store and saw me. He circled around and came back and just stood outside the store watching me vacuum. This lasted for maybe 10 minutes until I walkied my manager and she came out. He got the message and got scared off and left.

What's the most someone has spent in one trip? A guy bought, like, every single men's outerwear jacket or coat that we had along with denim and cardigans.

He came up to the cash register with all this stuff and kept going back to pick up more, just 'cause he couldn't carry it all. He was really sweet about it though. I was just looking at this pile of clothes that I had to scan and put into bags, and I was like, Wow, this is going to take a while, but I had someone else help me bag everything.

I think he left the store with eight or nine bags that day. Do you think he kept it all? I think he was Canadian. When tourists come to the store, they tend to spend a lot of money so they can take things home for their friends and family.

Speaking of tourists, I always see people in New York taking pictures with the models. Do tourists ever ask to take pictures with you guys? No, and I think a big part of that is because our male models aren't shirtless. Does it ever bother you after a long shift? Definitely the lighting affects me when I'm in the store.

The lighting is very dim so when I'm working a shift, and I'm coming out and about to go home or something, as I'm leaving the store and entering the mall that has bright fluorescent lights, my eyes hurt.

I don't think my eyes adjust until I get home, to be honest. You're in this dim light for so long that it does take a toll on you a little bit. I also always notice the loud music when I'm walking past. Does that ever give you a headache? The music can either be really good or really bad. The music playlists each go for about an hour at a time, so you hear these songs and then you hear them again and again and again.

I'll probably hear a full music track seven or eight times in one shift. You tend to have favorite songs that you can hum along to and then songs that you just hate and want to be over.

I've actually looked up some of the tracks on my phone, so I can put them on my playlist because some of the songs are pretty good. Does the perfume bother you at the end of the shift?

When I first started working there, it was terrible. Do you have to walk around spraying it around the store?

Usually they're in corners near closets. Every few minutes they release the perfume so that it falls along the clothing in the closets. It just keeps everything fresh and smelling like Abercrombie, 'cause we all want that, right?

Do people like the smell so much that they ask what the perfume is? Yeah, all the time. Sometimes people just come into the store to smell the perfume and then they leave. My favorite type of customer is the type of customer that tries on clothes and then puts it back in their respective places. It's one thing to leave clothes in the fitting room and have me put it back because I'll do that, that's my job.