Typical day at Belk:
Start work at 1030 and shop online orders until it is time for for the store open at 12. Open your assigned register for the day, where you will remain the only one in the department all day. Ring up never ending lines of customers while you wait for lunch relief. Return, keep ringing. Don't bother straightening or working on putbacks. There won't be time. If you're lucky you can close your register at 6 but you will probably still have a line. All registers closed and everyone out if the building by 630. Freight will remain unprocessed. Tables will be in shambles, and merchandise is strewn all over the floor. Returns are not put away. Leave it be, go home exhausted, lather, rinse, repeat. This is not sustainable. Belk is not bringing back more help and it is desperately needed.
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It's all for one, one for all, and every man (including the Old Bag) for himself!
You work different areas unless you are cosmetics or visual. So goes cosmetics, so goes Belk. Just so you know, the average hourly pay for cosmetics in SC is +/- 19.00 and up. Visual, +/-15.00 and up. Grunt workers, like operations and merchandisers, +/- 8.00 and up, mostly not up.
Those are rough averages– the spread changes throughout the Pee Dee– Columbia area pay is higher than Florence or Hartsville, for instance.
I've heard that more may be called back when regular store hours resume. I don't know how true that is though.
Yes. Versatile. You have to be able to work different areas. It happened to me and i hate it. Now with team belk you work anywhere they tell you.
We never had a choice of doing other peoples work. WE'RE A TEAM is what we are told. You have to do what you're told or have no job
What do you mean by Versatile Doing other people’s jobs for no pay? That is not being versatile that is being stupid
Creditors sued Toys R US executives in March stating they stole $16 million and funneled it to themselves as a “bonus” They are being sued for fraud including the CEO, I hope something like this is not happening at Belk, but. I always say if it looks like a rat, smells like a rat, ....it’s a rat...
Changing people’s job duties drastically after a person is hired is considered breach of contract, of course Belk would say it isn’t, but at Toys R Us employees filed a class action when they tried that c-ap.
Belk wants to rid itself of older employees. I see a lawsuit a brewin’
Belk’s target employee are young girls under 25 who work for $10 an hour and will do the job of four employees including unloading trucks.
Unless your versatile you want be called back.
I hear that it's terrible. People probably don't want to go back. It was bad before the furloughs.
Will they ever bring back the others