Was excited with my job at first..... - Anonymous employee Belk Employee Review

3.0
28 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-20% discount plus coupons -great products -freedom to transfer to other stores -Associates you work with are usually pretty great

Cons

My first complaint is this new point system for tardies and callouts. It is completely unrealistic. People are coming into work sick and getting speeding tickets because they are worried about getting fired. It seems to me as if the company is trying to get rid of commissioned and full time employees to save money. My second complaint is the hours. I know I should be gracious that I have a job, but I signed up for a FULL time job, I expect 40 hours, not 30. It is extremely hard to make ends meet on 30 hours. On average, people in center core get 30 to 35 hours a week. That is unless you are in gift with purchase, then you have to hound HR to give you 40. The work to compensation ratio is way out of wack.

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I loved my job. I’m met so many wonderful people. And the associates couldn’t have been better.

Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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