too much stress, not enough pay - Sales Associate Belk Employee Review

3.0
Feb 25, 2013
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Pros

we recieve a really good discount and the health insurance and benefits for full time employees are okay and some special perks if you meet goals. there are some employees that are there that are just absolutely wonderful and the fact that they have stood the test of time at that place is amazing. if it wasn't for them work there would have been way harder.

Cons

you have to worry about meeting skyhigh goals. every manager is on a different page. some associates are considered "favorites" and they are some of the worst employees to ever step through the door. the managers are only looking out for themselves and the store manager seems completely oblivious to his job. he likes to blow smoke up everyone's butt. they make it seem like a great place to work but it's not the greatest. Then corporate makes it to where it's literally impossible to get a raise. it makes it almost impossible to pay bills. this is a live from paycheck to paycheck kind of job.

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Cons

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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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