Awful company to work for - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Kohl's has average benefits and perks. Additionally, they are very focused on getting employees' feedback through their Associate surveys. Unfortunately, just because they ask for the feedback, they will not necessarily do anything about the feedback they receive.

Cons

The work-life balance is absolutely awful, even though that is something that management says that is one of the company's priorities. Additionally, they do not abide by their anti-retaliation policy. If you have issues with your job, do not bother sharing them with your manager and/or HR. They will either be ignored or you will be retaliated against. They seem big into career development, but it is extremely difficult to move up in the company unless you are in certain areas. It is most likely that you will take several lateral moves before you can get anywhere (or unless you are willing to relocate).

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Cons

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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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