Pros
All employees start out part time and at $12.00 per hr. If you have recent retail experience, you can start higher than that. Decent discount of 25% and addition employee discount days.
Cons
Sales quota. You must make your sales quota daily or you will receive a pay cut or get terminated regardless of how hard you work or how great your customer service is. Dillard's does not care about customer service. It's all about the sales, hence the sales quota. Your colleagues are not your friends. No matter how close you think you are to them, this job is highly competitive and they will back stab you to steal the sale. Associates fight in front of customers over sales without repercussions. You MUST check your schedule daily! They are notorious for changing it without any notice to you and if you miss the changed shift, you can/will be fired. They push push push the credit apps A LOT! You will get written up if you don't open one every week. There is no drug testing done ever. You can work under the influence of narcotics and/or alcohol and not be terminated. They will simply have multiple conversations with you about it, send you home for the day but you will not be fired. You can move up from associate to manager very quickly but they throw you into a department without training and tell you to figure it out. If you give a 2 weeks notice, do not plan on working that. As soon as they have someone to replace you, even as soon as the next day, they will walk you out the door and say have a nice life. Your complaints are worthless. They act like they care and will take care of it but all they do is talk so you can and will experience bullying and they will not get written up, especially if they sell well.
