Good benefits for retail...very poor management - Assistant Department Manager-Women's Shoes Von Maur Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Closed major holidays including Memorial Day jul 4th and labor day, time and a half on Sundays, decent product selection...sales job without high pressure to make numbers.. Customer service is more important, besides a few weeks in December the work environment is relatively low stress

Cons

-The customer is always right...you will get written up for the smallest customer complaint -Management is awful and incompetent... Repeatedly had to by- pass the floor manager to get direction from store manager -big brother is watching you... Management uses the security cameras to manage rather than work with the employees and give feedback in the moment -training is ok if you are a new hire...but if you are promoted its sink or swim into the next role -must have open availability they do not work around your schedule-single moms or any one with a life stay clear and requesting time off can be very difficult most of the time -women must wear skirts and panty hose -the company is very conservative with very conservative customers you must be PC at all times

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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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