Archaic Management Philosophy - Sales Associate Von Maur Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Off on major holidays, no "holiday hours". Enjoyable customers.

Cons

Females MUST wear pantyhose, skirts & dresses. Males must wear suit and tie. Salary isn't bad for Sales Associates. In smaller stores where foot traffic is minimal, it may be difficult to attain sales goal (which can lead to dismissal) and low commission in some departments. You won't find VM's management style in ANY university course, its a style that they have developed. For people who have a business degree, it's mind boggling!. Most department mgr.s and floor mgr.s are VERY young & inexperienced, not only in business, but in life /people skills. This works for VM because they easily drink the Kool-Aid. Their security and upper management watch employees on selling floor from cameras while customers walk away with the store. You are always afraid that you will do something that mgt. doesn't like, which can be anything. Sometimes it's brought to your attention, if it's not, it's saved for future misconduct reprimands.

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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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