Tyrannical upper management - Anonymous employee Von Maur Employee Review

1.0
Jun 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very few pros though most coworkers are very pleasant to work with having bonded over very unpleasant working conditions

Cons

-Upper management, under direction of store Manager, makes for a very uncomfortable and unpleasant working environment. Lower managers are asked to spy on other employees and feed information to store Manager to be used against associates and a way to leverage career growth for those who give negative information -Women must wear skirts everyday, in this day and age this rule alone should be illegal -Tape of piano recording is played on repeat when live pianist isn’t there. This music has reportedly not been changed since store opening. This makes for a very unpleasant work environment for employees and any customer under the age of 85. -Employees are shamed for taking sick time or fmla, even for life-threatening circumstances such as cancer -Pay is abhorrently low and well below living wage -Store security spends far more time intimidating employees than protecting them and store inventory

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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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