Fast, Enjoyable, but Impersonal - POS Associate/Cashier Kohl's Employee Review

5.0
Oct 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cashiers only fold clothes, bag items, process money, and sell credit. Cleaning up other departments is only done if you're still in at closing, but you're expected to keep all registers tidy (not so much a pro or con; a given). It's fast-paced, even when the store isn't active. Decent discount.

Cons

Hours are contingent on credit sales. Setting record highs doesn't matter if you can't keep that number day after day. Store closes could mean staying 2-3 hours after hours because those departments were just coming in for a paycheck. Even these cons not that bad. No real chance for advancement, not really competitive pay. Inconsistent hours. Registers are often broken and card scanning machines would take months to be repaired, leaving customers unable to work with credit cards.

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Pros

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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