Decline of the department store - Merchandise Assistant Belk Employee Review

2.0
May 22, 2017
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Pros

nice building and manicure landscaping, friendly co-workers

Cons

I left with the first wave of people a few months ago and I am so happy I did. After the new year drastic leadership changes happened and the company started to get more un-aligned instead of aligned. Every week there was another new brand, goal, aesthic we had to uphold along with the new of someone leaving. When I first started working at Belk I loved it, but after realizing you basically had to gravel / wait for a many years to get a promotion and the salaries were lower then average I began to get disheartned but stayed because I did enjoy my job. However once the "Re-Organization" Plan was annnounced and no one on senior leadership could provide a straight answer as to what were the plans for the MA position- I made the heard decision to leave. Good thing because I just heard they let all the MA's go along with a good number of people in other positions... its a pity because I originally went into Belk thinking this would be the job I retire from.. oh well.

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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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