Co Manager - Anonymous employee DSW Employee Review

2.0
Sep 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

With the support of great management, you can truly own your own development. Career opportunities are always open with so many people leaving the company.

Cons

This year, there is a focus on our highest volume stores and what that simply means is no other store matters. While limitless payroll and positions and countless resources are being poured into the success of approximately 36 stores, the rest are left hanging out to dry. To be more specific positions are being eliminated, payroll, is being cut back every quarter and the expectation is increasing each week. If you get something as simple as a lunch break, consider yourself lucky. You may just be able to step off the floor to use the restroom as the only MOD for up to 8 hours at a time in between recovering the floor, turning keys, preventing theft, being the main back up cashier, taking in freight, pulling orders to ship from stores, checking in packages ship to the stores, and spending extended amounts of time on the phones with help desk in an attempt to repair all the declined pending work orders, and anything else you could possibly think of. Lace up your sneakers and run with the wind. Hourly managers are being eliminated and overtime is prohibited leaving the workload on the shoulders of the salary manager.

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Pros

30% Employee Discount, sometimes around the holidays they'll have an additional for employees. Sometimes you'll get along with other associates.

Cons

- Poor hours, which goes both ways, you could either get not enough or too many hours. I was pulling around 30hrs a week for the first few months when I first got hired. - No appreciation or acknowledgment if you're actually doing the work and not just focusing on looking good for the customers. - Poor management. No communication in between the superiors, none of the updates they get (as far as procedures and what not) get passed down to the employees that actually need to use that information. - You won't be able to do anything about thieves, other than make them known to managers, and attempt to watch them while juggling a thousand other things. - No room for growth unless you've gotten hired through nepotism or you're willing to lose your soul for that job. - No adequate raises. I started at 15.50$ and ended at 17.70$ and I worked there for nearly 4 years (2 months shy) putting in a ton of effort.

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