No work life balance or appreciation - ASM- Assistant Store Manager Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The only pros were the people I met and became friends with. Some stores are like family and some stores are like the Game of Thrones.

Cons

Poorly compensated. Especially if you work your way up. Raises are a joke. You only make good money if you're a District Manager and up. Minimal training for all positions. No work life balance. District Managers are useless and know nothing of what it takes to run a store. Payroll to run the store is horrible. Most Kohl's stores run on a skeleton crew but is still expected to keep the store cleaned and stocked. Kohl's does not care about their employees and Kohl's Cares volunteer events are not really for volunteers. Management is forced to bring so-called volunteers to events, especially if it's a favorite event of the District or Territory Managers. Management is forced to work long hours, especially when their store is getting a visit from Corporate and the store has to be perfect which is ridiculous because most Kohl's stores are a disaster and are so hard to shop.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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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