It's about who likes you and not the quality of your work. I felt like I was in high school - Assistant Buyer Belk Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Tim Belk is an amazing CEO. Learned a lot about merchandising and buying while working here.

Cons

In merchandising it's very catty and high school. A lot of gossip. It should be about work and not about someone's personal issues or what have you. Even senior management is involved in the gossip and the rudeness and it's unprofessional. I couldn't even trust talking to my DMM because I knew what I would say would get out. Also you are spread so thin and wear many hats. Pay wasn't great for the workload

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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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