A truly objective review - OMNI Associate Kohl's Employee Review

3.0
Apr 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best employee discount you will ever find in retail!

Cons

Most of the managers were very nice and actually worked and cared, but the micromanaging was a pain and hurtful to the culture. I understand the need to ensure an effective work flow, but, for self-driven and caring workers, it is irritating and creates a negative feedback loop which only ends up hurting production. Many a times (sometimes several times per hour), my work flow was interrupted only for a manager to inform me about something of which I had already been aware and for which engagement was imminent. This disrupts one mentally and physically. Now, don't get me wrong, there are lazy workers that need to be micromanaged! In regards to corporate management (those who worked in the corporate section of the South Plainfield store), there is nothing to find but glut. Too many heads chasing too few tasks, redundancies, and not enough bang for the many bucks paid to certain positions. I'm sure this is the case in many corporations, but it was palpable and undeniable here. Even the managers thought so. There were other negative feedback loops as well, but, this is enough writing for me to get 12-month unlimited access to Glassdoor.

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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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