A Stable and Conservative Department Store - ASM (Area Sales Manager) Belk Employee Review

3.0
Sep 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- good discount and deals on merchandise - great co-workers, family like atmosphere - opportunity to learn the basics of retail and merchandising hands-on, great experience for those who want to start a career in Retail - fairly consistent communication, process and procedures - Belk is careful and steady about their growth, realistic about goals and sales

Cons

- work can sometimes be monotonous (sale sets, markdowns) and become robotic - compensation is just okay, no commission or bonus for most departments or managers on the sales floor - work-life balance, holidays can get crazy, but that is the case in most retail stores

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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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