Commissioned Sales Associate - Commissioned Sales Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Jul 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Comes with benefits and relatively good hours, and possibility to make good money on a fashion retail stand point.

Cons

Commission! You should understand its commission (the more you sell the more you make) Returns subtracts from your sales. If you are a recent degree graduate or have a considerable good qualification, it is good to have a job for now but don't stop looking for other opportunities in your field. You will most likely make more than your manager and 95% - 100% of your colleagues, once you get your actual job. It's a sales company so they will tell you figures you will probably never make unless you are an amazing gorilla sales person or have a lot of rich friends and family who will spend tons with you.

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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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