Prepare to be bored stiff! - Department Manager Von Maur Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

You meet a lot of cool coworkers. 2 weekends off a month once you have been working here a year. Easy growth, as long as you stay with the company there is growth, qaulified or not.

Cons

The cons definetly outweight the pros at Von Maur. There are no customers but are shoving unrealistacally high sales goals down your throat. The dress code is ridiculously outdated. Women can finally just now wear no pantyhose/tights. Upper management is not only racist, but underqualified as well. Why is my store manager 27 years old with no expierence? They undermind everything we (department managers) say, as well as sales associates. Need to be off for a family emergency? Forget about it. You are sick but no sick pay? That counts against you too! Not to mention they don't care. I was ill and called before my shift and my manager said " Well make sure next time call an hour before your shift begins". Sorry later i'm throwing up everywhere at Von Maur isn't on my mind. Also, my store is in Atlanta, not the middle of nowhere Iowa, yes we will be late sometime considering there is bumper to bumper traffic all the time. Give us a grace period or something! Not to mention there are so many duties outside the job description, like unloading the truck in a long dress. Work here for a couple months, it is a good resume booster and easy. I wouldn't suggest making this your career. It's a good stepping stone if you lost your job, or etc. Be prepared to do nothing and have customers come at you for price adjustments for 5$ and etc. Then you get your 1% commission taken away. They act like that is an incentive too!!!! Save yourself now!

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

1.Schedule is all over the place 2. Have to do truck twice a week with 0 help and just 1 person per dept. 3. Worst benefits EVER, pto given out every quarter which makes it hard to plan any time off.. you get like 20hrs every quarter... 4. Not allowed to take any unpaid time off.. 5. You get points for being late 1 minute, yes 1 minute and you get an tardee.. 6. Wannabe Micromanagers. 7. Managers hired straight out of collage with 0 work experiance who try to tell ppl with 20+ retail experiance how to do their jobs. 8. 0 communication and that is about anything.. if your co worker from your dept. Calls sick that day , you are not told but have to ask yourself when you see that they are not there.. 9. Dress code is a joke. Mr.VonMaur is stuck in the 80s.

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