Ross Stores reviews

Starting pay is minimum wage, and nearly everyone is hired as part-time and/or as seasonal work. If your state's minimum wage is 7.50, you'll be paid 7.50. If your state's minimum wage is 8.55, you'll be paid 8.55. The opportunity to increase your hourly wage comes once a year during your annual review (that I'm aware of), and most people don't make it that long. Most people start looking for a better-paying job within the first month or two. If you're hired as seasonal help, you're likely going to be kept past the holiday season, but this is because of high turnover. Don't expect much leeway starting off with regards to your schedule. You need to be clocked in on time and going to every shift for the first month or so. If you absolutely must miss a shift (see: projectile vomiting, emergency, sudden death in the family, etc.), you need to call as early as possible, and even then, calling too much too early on can get you fired. This isn't a job for people who are periodically late. Turnover is high, mostly due to the wages. Most stores lose 1~2 people a month. The majority of employees (in pretty much every position outside of the stockroom) are women. If you don't like working with girls, you'll hate working here. I don't mind either way, but some people do. The work can be tedious. Your feet and legs will hurt by the end of your shift. Expect to be on your feet every shift. If you're working anything but cashier or fitting room, you're going to be walking and moving almost constantly. Cashiers have a fair amount of moving around to do, however, so fitting room is the only position that has any reliable downtime. This isn't a job for the easily worn-out. If you have a busy schedule outside of work, getting hours can be rough. If you're unavailable 3 days a week, expect to get 12~15 hours or less. Some employees get only 4 hours a week. You need to be willing to work when they need you: otherwise, don't expect a fat paycheck. Closing shift also works slightly past schedule. Our store closes at 9:00 each night, and I'm scheduled to work until 9:00 or 9:30, but I usually walk out the door at 9:50. Again: if your schedule is tight and you have outside responsibilities, this could be a bad thing. Most shifts are 4-5 hours in length. If you're part-time and want 16~25 hours a week, expect to work 4~5 days a week. This will work out to the benefit of people who don't have time in their schedule for a long shift, but it also means that you're going to be working often.

-Okay so I'm a front end supervisor and to be honest at first I said yes to the job because I thought there would at least be a little bit of a raise but no, this is no promotion! This may as well be just volunteering to be held responsible for everything that goes on! as an FES I'm expected to be in charge of breaks and lunches, train new associates, be on register, hand out change, help with returns, be in charge of answering the phone, making sure all other associates are doing what they're suppose to do, making sure there's 3 customers per cashier in line ugh the list is endless! if another associate messes up or anything goes wrong the FES gets the blame. Management is not very nice either, he expects me to do hundreds of things at once when it is impossible to do so! it is all about being fast on register! fast fast fast, ring up fast, and at the same time we are REQUIRED to make conversation with the customer and at the same time call up the next customer over before you're even done with the customer you're helping...management...that is extremely rude. There's just too much pressure put on an FES, we are expected to know everything and I'm sorry I still have questions or don't know well on certain policies sometimes! Everyday is VERY VERY busy in the store I work in so sometimes its impossible to get every little thing done and taken care of, and its hard to do all this and at the same time clean up the mess from all the returns on the service desk! We aren't gods we're human beings and its hard!