Macy's reviews

Work schedules were changed last minute without mentioning it. My last week working there, I was scheduled to work only a few hours. I printed out my schedule and felt satisfied, but the day before my last scheduled day, they changed my schedule from a few hours (~5) to 25 hours! Not what I wanted... They set goals for each employee for selling credit cards- want employees to be pushy. Needed employees to cover different departments at a moments notice. This wasn't too bad, but if you haven't had any training in that department customers can tell an become frustrated.

Seemed like the scheduling wasn't in tune with customer demand. Too many people scheduled when nobody was shopping. Of course, when it was super busy, you'd be the only one on the floor sometimes covering several areas at the same time. Pay was pretty low but the actual work you did, at least in the home department, really wasn't all that terrible. If you're a regular associate, the stress-level of goals, audits, inventory, credit add to the pain of the job ten-fold. The store manager seemed to be rarely visible (I doubted his true existence for quite sometime), although when he was around--pretty useless, not knowledgeable, and rude. Some of the younger long-time employees had superiority complexes, and some of those in management positions were quite questionable.