Emerging leadership program for retail management - Retail Management Trainee Belk Employee Review

1.0
Nov 10, 2017
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Pros

Not bad pay for recent college grad.

Cons

Communication was terrible, with an atmosphere that everyone was just trying to cover their own butts, rather than working together. Trainees are lured down to whatever whole of a town with the promise that after the six month trainee program there would be a full-time position available as an STM, Hr, OTM or at corporate. This is not the case, as trainees you are forced to interview for sale team manager positions or be forced to be a sales associate. If you try to leave you have too and are expected to pay back the $3000moving bonus unless you've been with the company more than 1 year. While there are a few nice people at the company, most trainees are paired with coaches who are overworked and uninterested in helping the newbie learn the ropes, not to mention untrained to handle the responsibility of helping the Trainee succeed with their trainee assignments. If you are lucky to complete any of your assignments. More than likely they will use you for lunch coverage or to make phone calls.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

I loved my job. I’m met so many wonderful people. And the associates couldn’t have been better.

Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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