Pretentious Department Store with no Values - Assitant Department Manager Nordstrom Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*average to slightly above average pay

Cons

* company has no backbone. I was fired due the complaint of one employee who has made multiple HR complaints and who it seemed was being lined up to be fired. This employee made false statements about me. Then I was put on leave for 2 weeks. I was questioned over the phone, but all the questions seemed geared towards finding my guilt. I was never asked to submit a time line or written statement. Working at Nordstroms has damaged my professional and personal reputation. I can't help but feel this was retaliatory. I made upper management aware of several safety and health violation concerns. I didn't share this information outside of the company but maybe they felt I would be a liability. Overall a negative experience. I share my experience with anyone who tells me they shop there.

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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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