Making things up as they go - Store Manager Belk Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2024
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Pros

The pay is great for retail

Cons

They're expectations are very high and they will not train you. Upper management only cares about promoting themselves, you are on your own if you need to learn something you haven't done before and the people under you aren't knowledgeable about your position so they can't coach you on it. As a company, they're pretty oblivious to the smaller stores. I didn't receive a visit from anyone above me until after I had been there over a year and then they wanted to hold me accountable for things I was not familiar with. You are supposed to treat your associates respectfully but upper management can harass and bully anyone they want without consequence.

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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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