Stein Mart Employee Reviews about "low pay"

Pros

good coworkers who care about you

Cons

long hours, low pay rate

Pros

None, everything was bad truly

Cons

Low pay, bad management, bad conditions

Pros

Commeraderie with coworkers. Discount on merchandise.

Cons

Have to fight for legal breaks. Low pay. Dog and pony show gets put on for upper management once every few months. You basically have to lie to customers to sell them credit cards.

Advice to Management

Stop lying to customers about the benefits of holding a credit card as, in the end, it makes them frustrated and angry.

Pros

Nice discount, friendly customers and employees.

Cons

Extremely low pay for Mgrs and as salaried employee you do not get overtime. Expect to work at least 50 hours up to 60 hours a week, sometimes more. Way too much merchandise is forced to the floor resulting in overstocked and messy racks customers can't look through.

Pros

Discount, fun fashions, friendly co-workers, great benefits if you work FT

Cons

Low pay, cut payroll a lot to make budget, good part time job, hard to support yourself on it

Advice to Management

Keep supporting the staff

Pros

Fun environment Loved working with the customers

Cons

Low pay No room for advancement

Pros

Great co-workers. Benefits ok.

Cons

Low pay. Sales no one can understand that are impossible to set. Workload is impossible. Senior management extend store hours and then cut pay roll. Alot of merchandise is the same every single year.

Advice to Management

Talk to your store managers and listen instead of issuing ridiculous demands. Whoever decides on the sales should work on the store floor for a month or so as should regional and district managers. There are not enough associates to offer any sort of customer service which would in fact increase sales. Floor moves way to often so customers get annoyed. Apparently even though there is no time to help there is a... huge amount of time to sell credit cards. Someone needs to realise that it may be difficult to sell credit cards if there are no customers.

Pros

Nice discount, great coworkers

Cons

Overworked, understaffed, hours cut, low pay, little to no training, not enough time in day to do all expected. Poor communication from corporate with employees.

Advice to Management

Have corporate do by themselves what they ask of us with no help, 3 hours out of day clean in dress clothes, open freight/put out & back stock, scan for sales, markdowns and reset entire department with small amount of hours left. Not to mention handle all customers and be called to run registers because not enough cashiers are scheduled! Family values don't seem to be important. Poor communication from... corporate! All boils down to corporate who needs to understand our workload and be on a personal level with employees during store visits and not just with managers. We need to be appreciated for the work we do and hear first hand what we are doing right and what's needed to do better for all and not pass the buck. We are a team who should work together which in the long run makes for happy employees and greater profit for the company! It's hard to work under duress, and stress only makes the work load harder. Most of us enjoy the job so help us which will help the company make more profit.