Bealls reviews

Leadership do not hold the keys to success with this company. In just 6 years the senior management has changed 4 time all under the head of the current President which equates to an inability to locate, retain and select good management that work for the company. All of the selected upper management choices have ended in disaster for the stores and either the "talent selection" fired or asked to resign. The current regional mangers are about as bright as a dim light bulb and have gotten the experienced store managers in more hot water with HR with their unethical outside of the company ideas (like reduction of hours and full time staff to take away health ins benefits for long time associates for example) that has backfired in their faces when local media got ahold of their tactics and caused the company to reverse due to the public and employee reaction. The management structure above store is situated in a way that the store management teams have no room or ability to think for themselves to execute or follow multiple conflicting direction. They have employed unqualified regionals and senior staff that correct mistakes with a sweep it under the rug accountability when it is erroneous. Many of the staff that built the original Bealls has long jumped ship due to the confusion and unethical tactics leaving a shell of people that are scrambling to relearn the old lessons that originally brought the company to success. Updated policies and training are a joke as well, the training video still in use are from the 1980's. Payroll/Sales and budgeting directives hinge on faulty excel spreadsheets created with errors and that's how store performance is determined. Marketing and store planning do not talk to one another which leads to inadequate scheduling for store staff and managers. The conflicts cause a quality of life issue for everyone in the store due to scheduling changes. They told the store mangers, "The associates are revolving doors keep hiring so you can move the in then move them out", tenure and retention means nothing. A war has been created between their ecommerce and the shop in store locations. Managers are severely pressured by Regional management to hit unreasonably high sales goals while their ecommerce divisions cannibalize the stores. The company has shorted the stores in merchandise to compensate for their ecommerce divisions thus eliminating entire departments and seriously under stocking the rest.

-- No job security. You start out on a 90-day "orientation". During this time you are expected to be an exemplary worker, or else they can and will reserve their right to sack your without any notice or explanation whatsoever. (And I'm quoting straight from the employee handbook, here.) -- Pay starts at minimum wage. It's seriously not even worth it, I promise you. -- Mind-numbing repetition. Literally, all your job is comprised of is picking clothes up off of the floor and hanging them back up. All day. Clothes. Floor. Hanger... That's it. It feels like you're cleaning your bedroom for 8 hours, except minus the satisfaction, because people just come and knock down all the clothes a minute later. I hope you like having a sore back, because half of those 8 hour shifts is spent just bending over. -- SO DIRTY. Firstly, you have the break room: The sink would be overflowing with smelly, nasty dishes for weeks at a time (who brings dishes to work?!). I tried to avoid going in there as much as I could because of the flies, but unfortunately that's where our lockers were located. Secondly, you have the bathrooms: Not ONCE while I worked there was I ever instructed by management to clean them (or even trained how to). Not once did I witness any of the other girls cleaning them. In fact, when I asked the girls with the most seniority about it, they couldn't even tell me what the cleaning procedures for the restrooms were! Needless to say, after that I always made it a point to "go" before I left the house, in the safety of my own regularly bleached bathroom. And finally, you have the floors: Next time you go to a Beall's, find a regular rack of clothes. Then, pull the clothes back for a moment, and take a good peak underneath. I'd bet you money that it'd look like someone just emptied the full contents of their vacuum cleaner's dust-bag down there. Why? Because even though they're open morning to night, 7 days a week; sweeping for some reason only takes place once a week. Mopping? Never seen it. I guess that wouldn't be so bad, except that in stores like Beall's, clothes tend to fall off of their hangers like, a lot (trust me). And so they fall straight into the filth, are typically trampled over a little bit before a sales girl finally makes her way over and notices. She of course hangs it right back up. And then you buy it. Congratulations, you now have Ebola.