Nordstrom Rack.... - Anonymous employee Nordstrom Employee Review

2.0
Apr 29, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Well, I worked in the Rack division. There are alot of hard working people in the Rack division. In my opinion, I have never seen a huge concentration of hard working people in one place. They have very good benefit package if you become a permanent employee there. Furthermore, the people you worked with (not necessarily management) are for the most part, great people. Being an associate on the floor is not a bad because like most retail companies there are very little deviation and most will be straighforward and/or very familiar.

Cons

If you accept a temp job in the Rack, there is little to no chance of being hired as a permanent employee, but they do not make this clear when they offer you a temp job, which is unfortunately really. In my opinion, do not take the temp job in exchange for your regular job because the Rack will leave you high in dry after 90 to 120 days unless your regular job is really getting to your nerves, but if not, then just make the Rack your secondary option and not primary. Furthermore, if you have an issue and wanted to speak to HR, you should corner the HR personally, so it is advisable to know where he or she is on a particular day because they will not return your messages at all, which is very unprofessional. Also, make sure you get a copy of policies on certain topics especially when management brings up issues regarding policies. Most manager will just say something about certain policies and you would be left wondering where they got it from, so ask for the black and white. Furthermore, it is an ass kissing environment for the most part, which is natural in the retail business.

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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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