overall if you are not interested in retail stay away. If you are, its a good taste of what retail is. - Intern Kohl's Employee Review

2.0
Jun 23, 2010
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Pros

i worked with nice people. You are suppose to get a lunch break for a half hour and two 15 minute break if you work 8 hours. They also dont have payroll for interns to work sunday. Therefore you always get sundays off. They take you to millwaukee. If retail is something you are interested you can do a lot with this internship and make the most out of it.

Cons

Welll first off. I had to be at work at 5 in the morning someday. That means I have to get up at like 3:45. Other days you are expected to stay until 12 at night. Many times my boss pulled all nighters and worked like 30 hours in a row. THAT IS INSANE! People never actually take breaks. People are EXTREMELY high stress. Extremely poor work life balance. Also to be honest as a manager you pretty much are like another associate except instead of staying in only one department you learn everything.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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