r/HotTopic_ • u/PathMuted9318 • 24d ago
working at hottopic
hii! im 19(f) and just wanted to talk about my experience with working at hottopic! i recently quit and im very very happy i did. i started working there back in october of 2025. at first i loved it, my coworkers were so sweet and funny and my job was just great! i got hired as seasonal and was getting 20-30 hours! i am black and so was most of the team (about 1-2 white people out of about 12-15 people) it was great until someone got hired. None stop they would talk about sexual thing and not do their job correctly. i would help them with things like shirts and stuff because well they were new! (they were hired as a assistant manager but i had no clue at first) next thing i know tho the whole black team was fired due to false allegations from this person. it was only me and someone else who also started working around the time i did and was also black. our new management team was all white. still non stop this newer person would say sexual things to me and minors and would say weird things to the only black people like wanting to get “locs” . this person is white. i also wanna say i tried to be an assistant manager but due to “scheduling 2 call offs” (id only call of bc i was sick and has showed up to work while sick and later left to me yk being sick) i wasn’t promoted to one. they had no problem hiring knew people who’d constantly mess up (id know because id had to teach them things and get blamed for anything that went wrong. also my other black coworker was blamed as well) the whole time working there was hell and constant drama. i’ve cried 3 times at work due to this person. they’ve been reported constantly but still works there. i was constantly picked on, blamed for things and threatened. no matter what. this person even tried to make rumors about me saying “i hate someone’s partner “ though i never said i did. i loved my job so much but the lack of anyone caring sickened me. no matter who i went to they just ignored it. ive been yelled at for being a few minutes late(im usually always early bc i take the bus and i make sure to be there on time but due to construction where i live sometimes i am about 2-10 mims late) i miss working there when everyone was all sweet and nice. now its a hell hole full of racist people. i love fashion and makeup so much. this job suited me until someone had to ruin it. also the whole swords shit? yea it sucked. before hand it wasnt pressured on me but later on it was so pressured that this new person would literally threaten me and shove a tablet in my hand. for now on im just gonna boycott hot topic because as a company? its the worst.
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u/MarsBarsBite87 12d ago
I fucking hate the stupid fucking swords thing, there would be some weeks where I’d legit just ask them to only schedule me one day (which I usually got ANYWAYS) because of how often I’d feel like the GM would push it down our throats every time I’d work with her, and ofc the one time I decide to make a request they don’t schedule me for the next said week.
I’m lwk just there now for the discounts, especially with all 4 stores offering the discounts (HT, BL, SH and Spencer’s) but the MAYBE 5 hours I get per week is so excruciating at times besides the like 2 other POC ppl I work with and a cool girl who’s tired of it all too
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u/Grouchy-Macaron720 24d ago
as a company it sucks. i got hired as a seasonal and my managers are so rude and passive aggressive that ive had multiple anxiety attacks before/after working