Almost Killed Me - Lawyer Nordstrom Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I was given the chance to work on some interesting projects.

Cons

Twice during my six years at Nordstrom I was assigned to a team managed by a horrible human being. Both of these managers abused their direct reports. The procedure at the company was always to find someone to blame rather than trying to fix anything. The "urgent" was always prioritized over the "important." Any time there was an issue, the company forced the responsible manager to leave the company and buried the problem, rather than try to fix the issue. Everyone was terrified all the time because they knew if there was no one to blame they would be singled out and terminated for some fabricated reason. During the pandemic, any one with experience was let go and Nordstrom used entry level employees to fill the gaps. They did this while expecting the same level of productivity from existing employees. Personally, I became seriously ill during the pandemic. During my illness the company demoted me and eventually forced me to resign. I raised these issues with HR. HR promised there would be no retaliation but of course there was. I almost died trying to maintain my position at Nordstrom and after six years of service I was tossed aside like garbage.

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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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