Management - Anonymous employee Nordstrom Employee Review

1.0
Aug 16, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Discount but even that is worth hardly anything... the management may get 33% off which is good but if your not a manager you only get 20%. Which really isn't much especially since they treat you like crap as an employee... like your money as an employee isn't good enough.

Cons

Too preoccupied with appearance and treat the employees as if they were beneath them. You hardly get paid for anything.... You make basically 9 dollars an hour... and if you're a good sales person maybe 10... but that's if your lucky, so don't fall for the information in the interview. it's either you get commission or the 9 dollars an hour, and to beat the 9 dollars an hour is insane. I don't know why I try.

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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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