A different story if you're a contractor... - Marketing Creative At Corporate Headquarters Kohl's Employee Review

2.0
Jan 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of great people who are good at what they do. It's an encouraging environment to work in as a female professional since there are a lot of women in higher level and managerial positions.

Cons

Freelancers work alongside full-time employees and do the exact same jobs, except are treated like high school temps instead of talented professionals (e.g. given sub-par working conditions/spaces compared to FTEs, not informed of initiatives, changes that affect us). This isn't necessarily a choice of the individual team managers, but more of a company-wide effort to separate contractors from FTEs because of the slippery legal situation using contractors in this way creates due to "common law employee" rules. Contractors work there for years, gaining more and more responsibility, yet have no hope of ever being hired on or even given a raise in their hourly rate. On my team, contractors outnumber the FTEs and have a high degree of responsibility, so whenever we lose someone, it throws a huge wrench in our daily operations. Morale is non-existent.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

managers can be friendly at times

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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