It’s not worth it - Beauty Advisor Nordstrom Employee Review

1.0
Dec 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There really is no pros.

Cons

Extremely toxic environment. It’s like working with the mean girls from high school. Employees with seniority bully new hires. A lot of people have ridiculously high egos and think they’re better than others. A big portion of the team gossips about each other 24/7. If you want to work in store #220/Chicago just know people will try to steal your customers, throw you under the bus, talk negatively about you, and do anything to mess with you. Management does not care and does the bare minimum if you bring up any concerns. Security was very bad. Almost every week groups of people will come in and start stealing popular cosmetics. There is a lot of fraud and scams going on in the store. There has been multiple times where I did not feel safe in the work place.

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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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