Culture has Shifted - Beware - Assistant Merchandise Manager Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
Dec 23, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

When I interned at Kohl’s five years ago, it was amazing and where I wanted to spend my career. The culture was excellent, people were friendly, and work-life balance was great most of the time. Wow how things have changed! Now favoritism happens daily, work-life balance is out of control, and the culture couldn’t be worse. I’m glad I left when I did.

Cons

You never know when your job is safe. Kohl’s continue to go through reorg after reorg, firing people who have been loyal to Kohl’s and make too much money. They keep piling more and more work onto the current employees. Surveys say employees are overworked but nothing comes out of it. Pay is low for the amount of work you are doing. With Michelle as a CEO, it’s becoming a ruthless corporate environment.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Pay is very good once you start getting raises. Weekly pay

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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