Low Pay, Slave Driving Workloads - Sales Associate Belk Employee Review

2.0
May 8, 2010
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Pros

They always have work to do because they can't keep employees so there is always a need for new hires. Job security. The customers are nice and fun.

Cons

Outdated equipment, severe lack of communication, disgruntled co-workers due to their pay/commission structure. I like the credit program incentives as they are a nice challenge. There is too much work for the Sales Associates to perform during their scheduled work day. Not to mention, I am absolutely exhausted and in severe pain from all of the physical labor - I should be able to primarily focus on the customers!!! After all, they are number one! I clean cottages on the side in addition to my Belk job and am no where near as tired or in pain from the physical labor of cleaning cottages. The pay is so much better too! It is a disgrace what they pay you for the amount of work they expect you to do. I thought slavery was abolished in America!!

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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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