Pros
WAS a good company before bought out by Sycamore Partners. When the Belk’s were still in ownership none of the below ever happened nor would it have. Good location in Charlotte and nice employee discount. There are a lot of great people there aside from upper management team that is the root of the problem. But they’re all miserable because of the management team.
Cons
They have laid off a lot of people since the buy out. Most recently laid of 90 employees last week. Most were tenured employees with 10+ years of experience. The divide between ages of employees that were laid off and the ones kept is very obvious. Majority of upper management was NOT sympathetic at all to the employees that were let go. They even went so far as to charter a large private jet to get out of NYC when their flight was cancelled. They did not want to be inconvenienced so they used company funding to do that. No matter that they would be ending so many loyal employees careers just a week later. Benefits are so bad that prescription costs can break the bank. They get worse each year. Company sent out an email on Jan. 1st saying they wouldn’t ever pay people for their earned PTO anymore to prep for the layoffs. Because most of the people that they laid off didn’t take a lot of vacation or they also had a lot of it due to years of service.
