Terrible experience - Sales Associate- Rack Nordstrom Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The discount and my former co-workers were the best part about my time at Nordstrom Rack.

Cons

Where to begin, the politics of management made it hard to move up. It was more about how much you kissed up to management rather than your work ethic. They use employees at their disposal without any recognition. They always have the same few people closing instead of making it even so everybody had to close at least once a week.

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Pros

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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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