Marshalls reviews

-Will not fire people. Ever. (You'll have to steal first!) - Don't like someone? Better get use to them, because management won't yell at them or fire them. (We've had numerous people be no-show/ no-calls and they're still there months and many, many, many no-show/no-calls later.) Management doesn't care because it becomes YOUR problem to cover their job, plus your own. - Ask for something? Complain? In one ear out the other! - Want to move out a department and into another? Forget it! Management doesn't care and wont bother training you! -Hours? Forget about them! The average person gets under 10 a week during "non-Christmas" season. Some people will go weeks without any hours! (This is basically a sign for you that they're trying to get rid of you.) -Call out or need a day off? Be prepaid for your hours following weeks to go down. - This place cares about credit card applications. They've told me to ask people coming in and/or out of the fitting room. (I refuse to hound people. If they want one, they'll ask for one!) -Want a raise? You'll have to wait until your review comes around. And you'll be happy if you're given 10 cents. Yippie? -This place claims to have no payroll- hence while you'll get no hours. (I know this store gets thousands of dollars a day. Even on bad days. You have to have some payroll people!)

The starting rate is minimum wage, regardless of past retail experience. The store stays a mess because they wont hire sufficient staff to keep it orderly. Most of the staff are college students with limited work experience and dubious work ethics--this translates to high shrinkage and older workers doing more than their fair share. The store is open until 9:30 pm as opposed to 9:00 pm like other retail establishments in the area. Then you have to wait for management to audit registers. So, routinely, the associates don't walk out of the store until after 10:00 pm. There is little established in the way of a clear career path. The training was insufficient. They do not promote hiring from within. If your total store sales are high enough that you can become a manager, once you become a manger, you are often transferred to a store with lower sales so that you can improve it. The net result is that you work in the worst, and oldest, stores for much of your career.