Physical Labor - Visual Merchandiser Nordstrom Employee Review

2.0
Sep 23, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay, 30 minute breaks and 1 hour lunch. Hours 6-3pm.

Cons

When you think of "visual merchandiser" you'd think that you'd be merchandising product. Well not at Nordstrom! They should really change their title to "Display Artist" or "Handy man". You don't even merchandise in this role because that is the department manager's responsibility. 90% of the time you are moving heavy fixtures and furniture every other week and spending more time at the dumpster throwing out old fixtures than on the floor doing your alleged job. Must be comfortable using broken ladders and doing carpentry work! Definitely NOT a "visual merchandiser" role in my eyes.

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Pros

flexible hours and dress code

Cons

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2.0
Jul 11, 2026
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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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