Pits you against coworkers - Sales Associate Belk Employee Review

3.0
Feb 12, 2013
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Pros

The 20% discount was nice.

Cons

For not even making commission Belk has a pretty poor setup. You have to compete with the same people you're told to help. People are cut-throat, especially when they're long-term employees because Belk does biannual reviews and adjusts pay according to your sales. Not to mention that many of the customers are thieves or rude to the employees. The scheduling was horrendous: closing one night and opening the next morning, not being able to take off work on holidays or otherwise, working every Sunday or every weekend day. Part-time employees were given the better deal with scheduling. Convincing people to get the charge card was another issue. We had to be persistent to make them sign up even when the customers would never be approved. I counted down the days until I left.

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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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