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

Little to no training been working here for almost a year now there’s still something I don’t know every day. What was most difficult for me was being at registers as I was trained in two days by shadowing someone. There are so many situations and problems that will come up every day and you will learn something new! They never taught me about Kohl’s cash, how to read receipts, reprint or edit receipts. They schedule so little so when you do learn something there’s no chance of rehearsal because you come in three weeks later working at a different department.

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