My employment with Belk was one of the most miserable experiences in my retail career. - Anonymous employee Belk Employee Review

1.0
Jul 20, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

One of the only positive aspects of working for Belk was the employee discount and the option of paying by check or cash for your purchases. Belk does not force you to use their store card to receive your discount like many other retailers do.

Cons

One of my biggest complaints is your hourly wage is never guaranteed. You will receive a pay cut if your personal sales does not fall within their chart. The higher your hourly wage the higher sales volume you have to produce. They make the goals so astronomical that it is almost impossible to achieve them if you are in a low volume store. Belk executives like to brag that they are the largest privately owned retailer. However they run the company like it is a one store mom and pop operation. I would never recommend anyone to work for this company.

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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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