If you want to work harder for less money then Kohl's is the place for you! - POS Associate Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
Jun 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The pros to working at Kohl's are the flexible work hours--so if you have another job, you are in school, etc you can usually still get shifts. Employees also get to stack their employee discount on top of other discounts on merchandise.

Cons

Kohl's has one of the lowest hourly pay rates in the retail industry; the management tries to squeeze as much work out of the fewest number of associates as possible, i.e., you may be scheduled to work in the shoe department but be summoned as back up cashier constently and to also provide carry out assistance to a customer-all at the same time-it's impossible! Also, management routinely schedules associates for shifts and assigns tasks that are the responsibility of supervisors, all the while paying the associate the much lower pay rate. They also don't tell you when you are hired that your pay raise is tied to your evaluation which is mainly tied to the # of credit applications from customers you have solicited. No matter how dependable you are or how well you do your job, or how customer serviced oriented you are, none of that matters. Management attempts to motivate with "jeans day" or "pancake day" but these things don't address the underlying problems with the working environment. Employee morale is generally horrible and the turnover rate is extremely high!

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