Nordstrom reviews

In order to make a pyacheck you have to sell bc nordstrom is a full comisison environment and working in a clothing department you make a meager 6.75% off your sales. do the math- that's a lot you have to sell in order to support yourself. every dept has its sharks, who have worked there for years and who will take every single customer who steps onto the floor. Also, they promote form within- understandable, but in order to get anywhere aka an asst you ahve to sell your way up,a nd as i said it's hard. so if you have managed before and have great leadership skills- tooo bad bc unless you are a selling shark they will not even consider you, which is really unfortunate because being a good seller and being a good manager are 2 totally different things. and to be honest, selling gets old easily..

Holidays get beyond crazy busy. You deal with a lot of rude, whiney, stuck up, low-class customers. Be prepared to see a lot of dogs, sometimes they smell and use the store as a restroom. Be prepared with kids screaming and running around, and babies screaming their lungs out. And people who talk on those boost radio phones. You will be extremely tired, and sore after working here, and your feet will kill you. A lot of attempts of theft. If you're looking to be full time, you will rarely get 40 hours a week unless you are a manager. Lately a lot of the scream alarms kept going off-major head ache. Lots of running (literally), and constant cleaning and constant calls to the fitting room. Management doesn't tell you when there are sales or what items are on sale, they always change the time stores open and close, closing shifts usually work half an hour longer than they're supposed to, management decides but won't tell you when they're accepting holds or not. Managers pick their favorites, if you're not one they'll be very rude to you and blame you for everything wrong in your department (I used to get blamed for merchandise that was misplaced in pad 4 when I worked on pad 2). LOTS of drama with co-workers. Sometimes they try to work you so hard that even though it's your lunch or break they don't care they'll ask you to finish running your rack from the fitting room then when you don't take your lunch on time they get mad at you. Your job security (seasonal positions) depends on if customer write notes to the company about how wonderful you are. If a customer goes up to another employee and sings your praises you don't get recognition for it unless they write a note.