Miserable place to work - Anonymous employee Belk Employee Review

1.0
Apr 13, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employee discount is the only good thing about this company now

Cons

on the store level managers are petty bullies that fight amongst themselves, then how a manager interacts with you depends on how they feel about your manager. On the corporate side now that the Belk brothers are no longer there the benefits are awful. The insurance isn’t worth having. I loved my job for 10 years, now it is a completely different company and I cannot say enough about how bad it is. Also the Gainesville GA location is infested with rats for over a year. Not a few here and there infested. To the point when you come to work you have to ask for someone to clean the rat droppings from your work area and people would be sick from smelling rat urine all day. The rats also destroyed personal property like lunch boxes and purses. This went on for over a year and the rats are sill there. I went from loving my job to literally being nauseous every time I drove to work.

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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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