Macy's reviews

if you work in commissioned sales, and your manager does not set ground rules on how to determine who gets which customer, or does not enforce the rules well, your going to argue constantly with co-workers. you'll hate this job when you have no one you can trust. turn over rate is very high for sales, this just makes finding people you can trust harder. there are responsibilities that must be shared with co-workers, like keeping clean, taking items back to where they were originally, making the items look presentable. if your co-workers are lazy, or want to focus on making sales, they are not going to take shared responsibilities seriously. worst care scenario, youll start your shift in a messy department, and your manager will want YOU to clean everything before you leave, at same time as meeting sales and credit card quotas for the day. if you like to use your employee discount, youll find that it wont take many purchases before you use all your earnings, and possilty future earnings if you pay with credit. if you thought you were poor before you took this job, the job can you even poorer. i never found it hard to resist shopping here, its just clothes and shoes. the discount is surely not a reason to work here, youll better prices for same items elsewhere. on-line for example.

Inadequate training upfront and on the job. Widespread lack of respect for sales associates as professionals and as human beings. Too many department and store managers who deal with their own frustrations by verbally abusing the sales associates on the selling floor. A volatile political environment that sharply limits opportunity for professional development or career advancement (one day you're the "flavor of the month," the next day - performing at the same level - with no explanation you are instead treated with impatience and condescension, as if you are a not-very-bright child). Questions and suggestions from sales associates are encouraged, but rarely addressed, and sometimes are used as the object of retaliation. Erratic schedules that are often changed with less than 24 hours' notice (even for regular full-time associates). "Incentive programs" that provide rewards of novelty items with Macy's logo but little additional cash compensation. Unhealthy physical environment: vermin in stock rooms and under counters, infestations in employee lounge, and extremes in temperature year round.