Pros
We are paid time and a half for working on Sunday. There are six paid holidays yearly. It is cleaner and safer than other department stores. The hours are not hyper-extended at the Christmas holiday season.
Cons
The demands and expectations on sales associates and department managers are ridiculously high. Dept. managers rarely last beyond five years, because Von Maur would rather replace them with a different person at lower pay, than keep them on. There are too many rules, all of which are strictly enforced, usually by a written disciplinary or sudden termination. There is a serious lack of information sharing with associates. The current store manager is terribly harsh and cold. " The customer is always right " policy applies even when it's completely inappropriate. It's virtually impossible to get a pay raise, or if you do it's tiny. Work reviews are skewed so that any negatives they find are given more weight than the positives done by the employee.