Most problems aren't unique to Bealls - just part of the general decline in retail brick and mortar stores due to online competition: slashed budgets, using sales associates to clean store, unrealistic sales and credit goals and too few hours. So called "Flex time" employees get few hours but very long shifts, allowing the company advantages of full-time coverage without paying the hours and benefits. As to quality of the work environment -If you would enjoy any hard-sell job with quotas: selling time shares, for example, you might do well here. If you prefer a personal, relaxed retail selling experience, not so much. Constant harangue in your earpiece about # of accounts needed to open in the next 20 minutes, etc. Frequent "counseling" with managers about how you "succeed" by more effectively bully customers into opening accounts when they've politely refused repeatedly. I've never seen this level of aggressive credit selling in a "nice" department store. If this is a "family" atmosphere, not sure what type of family they have in mind. Can't tell for sure, but I'd put the blame for this at the top; store managers are apparently responding to intense pressure from the higher-ups.
