It could be better - Sales Associate- Rack Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Oct 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible scheduling Fast paced the time flys by You stay busy-always something to do Employee discount 401k and stock options

Cons

Health insurance is pretty much non existent unless you are an assistant manager or above! They “dangle the carrot” by making you hit a set # of hours in order to get insurance but the irony is that they CONSTANTLY CUT HOURS! Along with the fact that it seems Ike I practically have to “beg” just to be scheduled 30-35 a week! I’ve been working there almost a year and still no health insurance bc I’m not being scheduled the hours that one has to have to be insured! It’s a trap. Good Dept Managers are few and far between... Managers have the “power” to block someone from wanting to promote or transfer to another store or dept bc you have to have your managers “blessing” to go, so if your manager doesn’t like something about you or if they’re just catty you’re screwed.

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Pros

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Cons

Management is awful.. Plays favorites to an INSANE degree. For whatever reason I got onto the bad side of my department manager. Literally would call me into the office (taking away time on the floor to sell) to YELL at me until I cried for things that my coworkers got away with and didn’t even get so much as a talking to. Btw, what got me this treatment? Would be something pretty awful right? Coming in 5 min late. Big whoop. Also, management would promote people who quite literally had to take leaves of absence after having sexual harassment claims made against them… but then not only were they allowed to come back BUT also become floor managers. And what happened when he made it to that position? Literally got a sexual harassment claim again. I wonder how that could have been mitigated? The favoritism is so severe and unprofessional that when I was asking to get my job back for the holiday season I was told that there was nothing in the schedule available for me when in fact they were short staffed. And my coworker? The manager literally responded with “yes PLEASE 😍” yes. With the emoji. Grown man btw! Also, during that period the store was very shortstaffed with people quitting left and right. So, a lie.

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