Work here if you want to be a slave - Sales Associate Belk Employee Review

1.0
Dec 14, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The discount is the only reason to work at Belk. Even that is not worth it. They pay so little I barely even got to take advantage of it.

Cons

They make you work like a slave and you get no recognition for it. They base your pay off of how much you sell per hour, but they expect you to: get 2 credit apps per week, reorganize the floor every other day, process stock, inventory, dust, vacuum, set the sale, process markdown, and process damages just to name a few!! They never inform you of new information (sale sets, coupons, etc) but get mad when you didn't know. The people who don't do what is asked of them get paid more. The people who stalk the customers and lie to the customers get paid more than those who are working their butts off. I was the only one in my department who got things done, such as markdowns, sale set, stock, yes I got paid a measly 7.50 an hour. After quitting, I found out that the other associates who just stood around doing nothing got paid 3 and 4 dollars more than me!!!!! I worked there for 3 years and got one measly raise. I never experienced a pay cut but a lot of my former co workers did. RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!

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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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