Nordstrom reviews

Keep in mind that I understand how people have many different experiences with retail: Employees are ranked according to "performance and merit". This will effect your flexibility. A lot of unqualified people get promoted to management. The manager at my store was always micromanaging everybody and getting upset over ridiculous things when simple communication would have been more effective. The store had a very high turnover, even for retail, and I saw a lot of talent walk right out the door. The schedule was always being changed. Management at my store was impossible to please; that was the nature of that business. Nothing you do is ever good enough. They expect you to work like slaves for very low wages. This is especially true for today. They know that the job market is bad, and they like to hold that over people's heads. The work environment can be very hectic, stressful, and physically exhausting (not to say that I'm lazy or anything). The job is not for you if you do not like to push customers into sales as if you are working in a car dealership. They correlate customer service with sales; they are not the same thing. According to them if one does not sell then one does not give good customer service.

competitive in a bad way, power trips, stress, lack of efficiency to computers, performance mainly based on sales and not so much on how you work.