Pros
None begining 5 years ago
Cons
No enough room., compensation way below many other stores. Their poliyc handbook is used as they want to and when they want to use it to suit their needs. Managment has buddies and discriminates against others but within the policy guidelines so not to get caught unless you are in the know as how they work. The open door policy is a joke. They do not care after having been told of a problem etc. If it gets verified, they stop all proceedings and push it under the rug, unless it is to be used against somone they are trying to get rid of. It does not matter how had a person works etc. If your on the it list they will work to get rid of you by the write up policy and keep dogging you with the tiniest of things till they get enough to terminate. That is if they can't break you fisrt to quit. The HR department especially in the Northern DIvision is frought with people who got there let's just say, in very peculiar ways which is known throughout the company but ignored and those that know are told to be quiet for fear of retaliation. They use associates against each other to gang up on ones they don't like, then turn on the ones that helped them. You are told or at least hinted at by management how to get around things such as : if we don't see your cell phone on you we don't know you have it, or if you go to the stock rooms ect, and we don't know about it.......... But others, Managers included, have their's in their pockets and give excuses for their being allowed to keep them. ONE SIDED.... If you get written up, it doesn't matter what proof you give for your sid, it's done and that's it!!!!! Certian Associates get wriiten up for making remarks, and managers making the exact same it is said it's a different story so they are exempt. New scheduling process is a shame just to keep the currently filing of law suits by associates in different areas from seeming to have merit. As to Sunday observance etc, A manager in the know sat in on a manager conference call a few years ago and the LEGAL in house Counsel, taught how to properly build against and associate to terminate AND with the growing cmplaint by associates about not being allowed to atend religious observance, it was stated " To get around that, give them 1 Sunday off, that's all we are legally obligated to do. And if they have a 2 service church, they must decide which service they will attend, regardless if they want to attned both. A very deceptive, non-careing company with only the very upper heads getting what they want any way they want. Corporate does not care nor want to hear the associate disgruntleness through out the company cause they don't want to hear it cause it starts at the very top . The Belk family is NOT what it use to be like. The younger generation has ignored the former and originating owners wishes and way they use to do things. No, would never encourage anyone to work at belk.. ALL long time associate's, which are very few and far in between, will tell you it's not the same company anymore. Now they are devising ways to force FT associates into PT posiitons by coersion with the new scheduling system, and if they refuse they just advise them their position (One lady's case after 30 yrs), is no longer FT but now PT - take it or leave it.
