Kohl's- Hard work for a good paycheck. - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Jan 6, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Managing at Kohl's is fun and challenging. The associates for the most part are fun to work with and enjoy their job. The work is diverse and requires creativity and quick decision making. The culture of Kohl's is service oriented and gives you tools to make people happy.

Cons

It really comes down to the store you are in and the team around you. Seeing several different stores I can say that there are very distinct personalities for stores, and you may or may not find one that fits who you are. If you don't, they are not afraid to run you over. Welcome to retail. The hours are terrible, and you can never do enough. There is always pressure to come in/stay just a little(lot) longer. A great job lasts until the next sentence coming out of someone's mouth. This is not a job where people pat each other on the back. People are catty about many things- Credit, workload, food in the break room... That's not exclusive to retail, but often times you are left with the parental duties of separating bickering "children". If you can work very hard and feel fulfilled through your own work, results and interpersonal relationships, then this may be a good job for you. Also, be sure you don't mind pushing credit credit credit. Often times it will feel like the only metric that truly matters.

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1.0
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Cons

Genuinely everything else, the pay is that high because they have to pay you over 25 just to put up with the awful environment. terrible structure, terrible management, no accountability, cliquey mean girl environment. managers are allowed to sit around and do essentially nothing while supervisors carry 100% of the load and there is no checks and balances to ensure management does the right thing. Corporate and HR genuinely don't care if certain people sit on their butt While others keep the business running. Credit card pushing is absolutely Off the Wall insane. Getting enough credit cards is all the company cares about and managers do not help. Managers are allowed to have no history with getting any credit cards at all and corporate doesn't bat an eye. If you try to speak out about anything that's going on you'll just get fired. Retaliation is allowed and encouraged.

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