Pretty and sophisticated from the outside, but antiquated, sexist, and views all employees as disposable... - Sales Associate Von Maur Employee Review

1.0
Oct 22, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Time and a half on Sundays, no crazy holiday hours, closed lots of holidays, paid holidays, benefits even for part-time, work fairly easy, etc.

Cons

Crap discount compared to other retail employers (20%), sexist dresscode (every woman must wear hosiery and skirts/dresses), clique-y coworkers, unprofessional department managers, lack of staffing, no proper training, frequently covering depts where you have no idea where things are or how they do things/unfamiliar with product, lots of times you will be stuck by yourself closing, people take personal calls on the floor, the registers are old/outdated (terrible 80s computers), there is no way to easily track sales unless you go to every register in your department and write down your transactions, all good sales are only being "rented" by customers, you never know what your goal is... Just sph, inflexible policies for employees, snobby entitled clients, impersonal management approach, everything by the book, conservative to a fault, individuality not acceptable, extremely high turnover, employees saying most people do not last three weeks, people are easily fired, they motivate with fear by writing you up, you never truly know where you stand, processes that are much quicker at other establishments take forever with these old routines, training videos from 20 years ago, outdated mottos that are stereotypical and haven't evolved. NEED I SAY MORE?

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Cons

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Pros

Employee discount- 20%. Can't find anything else positive!

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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