Run as fast as your feet can take you! - Assistant Buyer Dillard's Employee Review

1.0
Jul 14, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Samples, Meeting with Vendors, Learning how to run your own business.

Cons

Management. If the management, I mean all management, was replaced with people who have actual management experience (an MBA would be nice), then the company would be a whole lot better. The actual job is fun, but if you want to hate your life and watch every second go by the entire time you are there, then feel free to work here. The opportunities for growth are a joke. Favoritism is key here, and if you seem like a strong person, they will feel intimidated and will purposely make sure you fail. If you have talent, are smart, and are driven to do big things in life, go somewhere else. If you want to be a middle aged, unhappy person, who never sees your family and treats everyone horribly, you'll fit in just right.

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Great payment benefits and flexible schedules

Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Annual raises for salaried employees are minimal, often only 100–500 dollars per year, regardless of performance or inflation. Salaried roles are consistently compensated below industry standards for comparable positions. Management routinely solicits employee input and feedback, then consistently ignores it, making requests for opinions feel performative rather than genuine. Excessive favoritism is openly displayed, accompanied by constant gossip, drama, and office politics that undermine professionalism and team cohesion. Leadership culture normalizes poor treatment by implying that if everyone is miserable together, the situation is acceptable. The company shows little concern for employee health and safety, pressuring staff to work in unsafe conditions because “it was done before.” Employees who raise workplace health concerns or request alternate work arrangements for health reasons are consistently penalized rather than supported, effectively forcing them to choose between their health and their job. The building was shot at, and management waited several hours to inform employees and refused to let anyone go home, demonstrating a disregard for basic safety and crisis response expectations. Any non-vacation time off, including sick time, medical appointments, and other approved leave, can be held against employees and negatively affect promotions, raises, and recognition. Promotions and raises are often denied based on incomplete or misleading assessments of performance, while significant individual contributions and permanent fixes to long-standing issues go unrecognized. External or third-party training and professional development are not supported and, in some cases, are actively discouraged. Execs are only concerned about profits and never employee well being, morale, or happiness.

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