Von Maur Reviews

Pros

Von Maur is sincerely the best place I’ve worked. Management cares and works with you and you are made to sincerely feel like a valuable asset to the company.

Cons

Women cannot wear pants, must wear skirts or dresses and it’s very impractical for the midwestern cold, not the mention dated.

Pros

Paid holidays after a year Time and a half on Sundays No crazy holiday hours Good health insurance

Cons

Inflexible scheduling for full time associates Little room for advancement unless you are young, blonde, and skinny Antiquated dress code Nearly impossible to transfer to a new department Chronic understaffing Insufficient training

Advice to Management

Stop wasting money opening new stores and spend that money staffing the existing stores. Eliminate the preferred customer books for all associates except pace setters. It is useless busy work that needlessly bothers customers, many of whom prefer emails and/or text messages. Stop playing favorites with employees. If an exception is made for one, allow it for all. Enforce existing policy and stop caving to customer's... irrational demands. Support your employees. After all without us, you have no company.

Pros

Family owned Teamwork Benefits Closed on major holidays

Cons

Retail can be tough at times, overall no major cons.

Pros

Responsible for apprehending shoplifting suspects. This can be exciting.

Cons

Your time is spent trying to catch shoplifters. That's it.

Advice to Management

A new, progressive, profit protection program, is likely needed to retain employees.

Pros

Other associates, closed on most Holidays

Cons

Being on your feet constantly, archaic dress code and management turns a blind eye on some misbehavior and others get called on the carpet for same behavior

Advice to Management

Helping with incoming stock, helping to unload the stock. Treat everyone the same, no favoritism.

Pros

the job pays decent, but hours are not great.

Cons

only allowed one scheduled weekend off a month, if you have to take a weekend off other than yours assigned, and if you cannot find someone to cover/switch shifts with you, you're SOL.

Pros

Weekend offs. Holidays off. GREAT benefits.

Cons

I was with the company for FIVE years. I started when the store was being built in OKC.I started in boys and moved my way to women’s shoes department manager. I had interviewed for multiple positions numerous amount of times. In the beginning I got feed back to improve. Then it turned into they don’t have feed back keep doing what you are doing. One of my last interviews was with my store manager and regional when... I was turned down they told me I am a much better fit for HR. fantastic right. Well an HR position come open And I wasn’t even considered. As a matter of fact I asked why and I was told I am a much better fit for Floor manager. Now this came from the same store manager who told me about HR. very conflicting right?!? Communication is awful. I had an associate out for surgery and his return date was pushed back, but I was never told that. In the end if my career with Von Maur my grandfather pasted away two days after his passing they wrote me up for a customer concern. They have ZERO regards for you or you personal life. They do t care if you have kids or someone is sick and obviously don’t care that my grandpa past away. I got a welcome back vs how are you? If you aren’t part of the line up you will not get anywhere. Take it from some one who spent five years there.

Advice to Management

Be more concerning. Give actually feed back. Learn to understand. And stop picking favorites

Pros

Holidays off are a pro

Cons

Horrible place to work