Pros
The people. Both coworkers and customers. Honestly the SVP of Store Ops was lovely. And my OLD district manager was lovely. But SO many people were awful.
Cons
Everything. Upper Management was a joke for the most part. They did a restructuring and moved my DM to a different district. The new DM they brought in was outright MEAN. Central OK district. He was rude, condescending, and awful. He told me my back room was not set up properly when 1. it was the size of a shoe box and 2. the person who set it up managed a store who literally test ran all new procedures for back room processes. I accidentally got included on an email to this DM and a few other people from Loss Prevention that listed the exact times I had been in my store over the course of a week... Which was not at all. It failed to mention I had been sent to a New Store Open in Texas one week and had been sent to Texas to train a new GM the week before that. Coincidentally this came after I turned down a store move from my current store to a store about 45 minutes away. The store I currently managed was less than 5 minutes from my house. The company was not willing to raise be but $30/check (weekly) which wouldnt even cover gas for half the week for taking on a 45 minute commute one way. I had been helping at the store they wanted me to move to because that GM was let go (for good reason).... And they had a GM from the OTHER Bealls brand stores that wanted MY current store... But nobody for the store I was only assisting for the moment. So, they tried to force the move on me for a pitiful raise that wouldnt even cover my gas. All of a sudden they start tracking my times. I called the guy from LP about the email and he panicked and tried to say that it was ABOUT someone with a similar name as me in my district but the times lined up PERFECTLY for when I had stopped by my store when I got back from Texas and my store number was the subject line. (They had looked through camera footage to find out when I was in my store physically.) I called the DM about why they were tracking my times... He said that they had received complaints from employees that I was never in store... I had communicated to my entire team where I was, I had spoken to my DM on the phone and in district conference calls while I was in Texas... So he knew I was there. He said he didnt but I know for a fact he knew I was in Texas because he called me personally to thank me for helping train that new GM last minute. So, overall.... Upper management is a joke. Especially in Central OK.
