Decent pay or having a life worth living? - Clinique Counter Manager Belk Employee Review

2.0
Nov 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is good, you earn an hourly rate plus commission on what you sell as a cosmetic employee. The most rewarding part is working with customers at a higher more personal level.

Cons

The work life balance is awful. You work very long hours that varies from week to week. Belk is open almost every holiday and stays open until midnight leading up to Christmas. Management is varied by location, but some stores have the worst managers in place. Belk penalizes you for being sick, even if you have a doctors note your absence counts as an "unexcused absence" and if you only have a few of those before you are terminated.

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Pros

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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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