Long hours, Overworked, Stressful, Try to be Customer Service King with no associates - Operations Team Manager Belk Employee Review

2.0
Oct 25, 2013
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Pros

Belk tries to focus on customer service in a way that few retailers fully do. But they do not hire enough associates to accommodate all customers needs. They also try to make you think they are getting your feedback but just do it in hopes of increased associate satisfaction. They have good products for reasonable products.

Cons

Middle managers do all the work and get paid nothing. Longggg hours and no compensation for it. Raises are pathetic and not even worth all the hard work you put into it. Constant goal changes and re-alignment in company standards. Always have hundreds of things you need to get done and always have to work late without overtime to accomplish them. Senior management wants everything to look perfect without the proper associates, fixtures, or even floor space. Felt like a pawn/slave to help customers and drive business. Also did not communicate goal change that negatively effected my year end review. All stores are different and all run differently so experiences could be varied. Worked at 2 different stores under 3 different store managers and everyone was overworked and underpaid.

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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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