Younkers Employee Reviews about "employee discount"

Pros

great coworkers and management, flexible hours, compensation for credit cards, great employee discount

Cons

bad customers (sometimes), pay could be better

Pros

The employee discount is great - generally 20% but there are special periods where it increases to 30%. When you sign someone up for a credit, it helps to boost your pay.

Cons

A lot of pettiness between coworkers, the management views everyone merely as bodies, communication is often lacking, and not a lot of consistency across the board.

Pros

The other employees treat you like family if you work hard and act like a decent human beings. Discount is 25% after a year of working there, 20% up until a year of employment. Occasional employee discount weekends where the discount is 35% on top of coupons.

Cons

No room for growth, you're stuck at the position you're in. Management takes advantage of hard working people quite frequently. It is very hard to remain happy with the way you're treated for long unless you are a managers "favorite". No pay raises unless you threaten to quit. No real changes unless you complain and threaten to quit.

Pros

the employee discount is literally the only decent thing about working here, and it's still not that great. but it bundles with coupons, so i guess that's cool.

Cons

I was told i would work in cosmetics, then was put in fragrance. whatever. then i said i needed $15 an hour, and was told that with commission that it would make up the difference. so when i ask how much my hourly is going to be, they tell me minimum wage. I broke down the numbers and told them exactly how much i would have to sell in order to make up for the $6 hourly defecit, and they could not have cared less. The location I was hired in, as I assume many others are, was extremely low-traffic. there was no way i could make up for that. to add on to that, the management team was almost non-existent. I understand it's a big store, but i feel like i should be able to touch base with a manager at least one per 8-hour shift to make sure i'm on the right track, especially since i had no training whatsoever and was just completely winging it and hoping for the best. if i hadn't had the previous retail experience that I did, i would have run screaming from the building during my first week because of the lack of guidance. i taught myself literally everything and had almost no help other than from the girls in cosmetics. Speaking of the girls in cosmetics, i have never met such a petty, unprofessional group of women in my life. they go out of their way to make people unwanted. i accidentally befriended the wrong person on my 3rd day working there and the entire cosmetics team shunned me for the whole day. i'm talking 3rd grade girl levels of immaturity. i can't believe i even went back after that. it took me 8 days to find a manager to try to quit to. they gave me a hard time about not giving them a full two weeks notice, and i tried to explain that i literally couldn't find a manager to give it to for a full 8 DAYS!! after i left that night the general manager TEXTED me and told me not to worry about the 3 shifts i had left, and that she didn't like my attitude and didn't think i would be productive enough. what the heck ever. this was the most ludicrous retail experience i have ever had. I only stayed there for 4 weeks, and I am still baffled that a store in this bad of shape still has its doors open.

Pros

Great coworkers, great employee discount

Cons

Horrible pay, want you to do everything from taking freight off truck to selling it