Good benefits, but overall a very stressful place to work - Anonymous employee Von Maur Employee Review

2.0
Sep 2, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Higher pay than most retail organizations -Great benefits: health, vision, and dental insurance; 401k, time and a half pay on Sundays -Work with great people -Overall the job is fun and pretty easy -High commission if you work in shoes (10%)

Cons

-Have to work most weekends -Promotions are based mostly on politics and not on experience or skill -Management overtly plays favorites, and will let some people get away with anything, and will treat others very harshly -Overly strict about minor infractions -No job security; many people have been fired -Upper management does not support long-term employees or department managers; they will listen and believe most complaints made by new employees or customers, even if they lie -Low commission for every department except shoes and cosmetics -Most rules in the company are learned by word of mouth, since the company does not provide a handbook that is available to most employees; so people are often breaking rules that they did not know existed, and being put in counseling or even fired. -They provide little to no training for department managers

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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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