Unpleasant working environment - Anonymous employee Neiman Marcus Employee Review

2.0
19 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

50% to 65% off on new merchandise once a month. 30% off all merchandise at anytime. Good store hours. No late nights or early mornings required.

Cons

-Senior management team is petty and contemptuous of employees. Gossiping is rampant among managers and executives. Promotions and pay increases are based on personal biases. -Benefits are terrible. We pay hundreds of dollars a month for our medical benefits but we still have to pay hundreds of dollars when we go to the doctor. There is no copay--there is co-insurance, which means we have to pay a percentage of the total cost of the visit. -Hourly employees do not get paid at all when they call in sick. If they are sick for more than one day, they are paid at 2/3 of their hourly rate. Managers and executives get full pay when they call in sick, and many of them abuse this privilege. -Managers are forbidden from giving support staff the highest performance rating on their annual reviews, therefore no one can get the highest percentage increase offered. You have less incentive to work harder because you know you will never get a bigger raise.

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Pros

* If you have an amazing team and management the day goes by fast. * Commission. * Easy to rely on foot traffic to meet goals. * If you ask for growth, they set thing ups that align with what you want, you just need to ask.

Cons

* If its slow, its SLOW. * There can be drama, it just depends on the department you're in.

3.0
20 May 2026
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Pros

good pay, good retired tech/fashion prop sales, hour long lunches

Cons

terrible work environment with whole bunch of eating disorder talk and projection at models (even from some management), management makes everyone stay until 4:30 even when all the minimum work requirement (and oftentimes more) is done, they will write you up for something extremely small then dismiss a big thing from another employee, terrible communication between managers therefore terrible communication to employees, employees get publicly ridiculed when they're just asking questions even amidst the terrible communication issues that are already there,

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