Cosmetics - Cosmetics Counter Manager Belk Employee Review

1.0
Oct 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Health insurance The beautiful people that I worked with, I especially felt so bad for the new people that came in. Sweet and walking into a sham of a store. Discount, but that is nothing so special. Everyone has a discount,

Cons

This company is by far the most outdated, backward dept store I have ever had the misfortune of having worked for. The IT they have in place is laughable. The client 'system' is an absolute joke amongst coworkers. I won't bore you with details. Don't even bother to apply here as a full time person and expect to work 38-40 hrs. You will get 30 hours. That is what they consider full time. However. You must attain the goal set forthwith on your full time status of 30 hours. But hey, you are full time, what's the problem. The customers are an absolute nightmare. I think it's because BELK is a low end dept. store, therefore attracts that sort of clientele. Some of these customers are chronic returners, buying online or in another store and returning to this store. Unidentifiable returns folks! Stolen merchandise. Returned. Showboaters, those that buy up product/merch (but can't actually afford it) and sculk over to a different store to return everything. Stupid. I asked someone if they ever actually bought anything from our store, as all I did was take returns from this woman. Probably had a mental problem, poor thing. The schedule is so poorly put together, you migh be lucky and get two weeks advance notice, but usually it's one. If you want more hours, you actually have to earn those. Beg for hours???Oh puleeeeze. Belk, get a life. You aren't all that. In fact you aren't any of that. Do something about that hideous 3 shade of blue signage, looks like Kmart/Walmart set up shop. Low end store attracting low end people, who can't really afford to shop and buy and return, buy and return. It's a JOKE.

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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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