Lots of Changes = Decline in Work Satisfaction at Mission Valley Rack - Sales Associate- Rack Nordstrom Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits and 401k available after you've worked enough hours, discount on merchandise, decent pay for a retail job, diverse group of people working there.

Cons

The #1 problem in this store is that there are NEVER enough people working, it's also very disorganized and inefficiently ran. Since the launch of mobile checkout, it has become increasingly more stressful as more responsibility is shifted from Customer Service (the people who are solely responsible to ringing up customers and opening rewards), to the floor associates, who are responsible for ringing up customers, opening rewards accounts, running go backs, finding merchandise for customers, stocking the floor and back stocking , sizing merchandise, finding search and sends, running the fitting room, measuring customers, helping customers at the jewelry/watch counter, answering questions for customers, buffing and stretching shoes, etc. The Customer Service team is always shorthanded and constantly needing help with the line. There is way too much focus on opening rewards accounts and very little on the every day running of the store.

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2.0
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Pros

Good commission (for my department it was 10%), great coworkers—made amazing friends from my time here!! Opportunity for lots of commission $ during busy times.

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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