Literally the worst job I’ve ever had. No work/life balance for salaried executives. - Assistant Store Manager Belk Employee Review

1.0
Jun 15, 2019
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Pros

Lots of PTO. Mostly nice coworkers.

Cons

The amount of work expected from salaried managers is absolutely irresponsible and borderline obscene. Nothing is organized. Major changes in operational processes are implemented at the drop of a hat with little communication and no best practices offered. Upper management suddenly decided that the stores should be spotlessly clean and meticulously recovered at all times but allow no payroll to hourly associates, so salaried workers pick up all of the slack...and guess what... the stores are still a wreck! If you want a clean store, you have to give people hours. It doesn’t just happen when CEOs bark orders at the stores. It is a very toxic culture. Everyone is always terrified of getting in trouble. Store managers sit at their desk all day and order everyone around. RVPs visit the stores for a few minutes a month and order everyone around. There are so many meetings and so many people directing and VERY few people around to do the actual work.

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Cons

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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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