Customer Service Representative - Anonymous employee Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Apr 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Job Description and goals completely predictable. 20% store discount. Great opportunities to continue career path inside Nordstrom.

Cons

Job Description and goals completely predictable. There is a definite checklist for store goals and positions. For Customer Service: Open New Accounts, Get E-Mail Addresses, Go Mobile. Not a lot of thinking outside the box. Everything has a checklist, to the point where there is no over-ride thought-process -- just meet goals and lead other stores, with things on the checklist. Also, a VERY concerted effort to keep the staff running at 30 hours/week or under so no one qualifies for benefits. And a keen watch on punching in and out by the minute. Full-time, but not 40 hours/week. Benefits are good, but only when you get them.

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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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