Difficult position with not a lot of positives - Store Manager Belk Employee Review

3.0
Nov 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Retail - it's either something you love or hate. If you've been around for a while you obviously love it. The people you work with. Never the same day twice.

Cons

Very high pressure job, especially on credit production. You can do great on everything else you do and still get canned if you can't meet your credit card signup quotas. Not the same since the Belk family sold out. You're more of a number now than when the family was in charge. The people - try to motivate people to do everyting that has to be done for a starting rate of $8 an hour when Walmart brings them in at $11 an hour. Not easy to do your job - very cumbersome and time consuming to get new hires in place and almost impossible to do correctives as corporate has to be involved with every step now and the employees know this and milk the process.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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