Not What I Expect - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

3.0
Jul 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers are so friendly and so warm like family. The associate discount counts for every item in the store & it's combinable!!! You get to converse with genuinely nice people. Store manager is very generous and really loves his team, he makes you feel appreciated. I'm still surprised.

Cons

Minimum wage salary, meanwhile other retail stores are willing to pay other POS associates $10 - $11 as a starting salary with no prior experience in retail and/or entry level to the job world. The forced pressure from certain advisors on associates to constantly have customers sign up for an in store credit card can be too much sometimes. It's not like America is in a renaissance era. People are not to keen on signing up for more debt, so good luck with telling management you didn't get at least 2 credit cards.

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Pay is very good once you start getting raises. Weekly pay

Cons

Genuinely everything else, the pay is that high because they have to pay you over 25 just to put up with the awful environment. terrible structure, terrible management, no accountability, cliquey mean girl environment. managers are allowed to sit around and do essentially nothing while supervisors carry 100% of the load and there is no checks and balances to ensure management does the right thing. Corporate and HR genuinely don't care if certain people sit on their butt While others keep the business running. Credit card pushing is absolutely Off the Wall insane. Getting enough credit cards is all the company cares about and managers do not help. Managers are allowed to have no history with getting any credit cards at all and corporate doesn't bat an eye. If you try to speak out about anything that's going on you'll just get fired. Retaliation is allowed and encouraged.

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