Kohl's engages in unethical business practices - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
May 27, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of my fellow associates are great, hard working, intelligent people. Employee discount is decent.

Cons

Managers are rude and abusive-they expect you to push credit by any means-even telling us to sell as a "discount" card and not mention "charge" card. Pay is very low and little to no raise. You're expected to do the work of 3 people and receive the pay of 1/2 a person. The schedule is all over the place, you never know what to expect. Kohl's management doesn't seem to care about their associates or the communities they are in. They have been working me for 36 to 40 hours a week, but when it came time to put me on full-time status, they cut my hours, even took half my hours this week and gave to new hires so I would keep my "part time" status. They're always cutting payroll and have eliminated some full time positions at my store.

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