Bulletin boards at Store 0184 are displayed with employees who don't meet emails as being dunces and losers.
Obviously whomever participated in this type of degradation are dunces. If you had any common sense you'd know the location demographics are different, due to the fact, many customers are in late seventies, they don't have emails Other customers do not want they info security compromised, their email sold to 3rd parties, or they do not want their credit check run.
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Some managers are worst than others especially when it comes to getting their credit goal and pushing people around. Crabtree 0458 has to be one of the worst. The best sales associates (or whatever they are called now) have begged to leave the floor to pull merchandise for online or phone orders because they don't want to continue with the constant degradation.
Nice to see a few of you finally visiting store locations and naming names and not just name calling. Indeed postings name those names and locations all the time and it is refreshing to see some of these stores get called out for what they are and are not.
So when does the bankruptcy bridge loan funds run out? Don't believe Syco can double dip again? With inflation, borrowing costs are climbing faster than the price of cotton.
A year ago the lament was "I can't find another job to go to". Now no excuses, jobs are everywhere. Think outside of the box and you will find that your skills gained from working in retail are priceless. Or at least worth a price in excess of $15.
And I forgot to add the obligatory tribute song to Secret Work Crush in the last post. This will be my final post on the board, too. Anony Mouse and all incarnations, checking out. Peace, love, apple butter and harmony to the masses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1XbcPJFK8
And, I still miss my Secret Work Crush from flo-town Belk. Working the sale sets and re-setting Home and stocking shoes was always a treat when we would work together and the group could cut up and goof off and she would, on rare occasion, burst out in a joyful laugh and her eyes would light up. sigh She will have forgotten me, understandably for reasons, but I'll never forget her, oh no. Not that kind of perfection. If only..
"florence sc, magnolia mall. Same thing. Bizarre elementary school like atmosphere with bullitan boards, candy during inventory, having to ask to go to the restroom. Now it’s a store of new hires and a mess."
Adults never ask to go to the "restroom". You just do it. Though the store may have been run like a prison, especially during the disastrous remodeling a few years ago, it isn't one. Adults do not require permission to "go". Remind whoever insists you require permission exactly who they are and what they mean to you, which is very little in the grand scheme.
I hear the previous store manager, the one who played cards during T'ksgiving allnighter rather than working the floor, and offered associates bread and water during inventory, but no break, while having 2 catered meals and sitting all day, just got The Boot! Nice job, finally! Rotsa ruck with that resume: from b-a fitter>store manager>thrown out like yesterday's garbage. Have fun starting over! I hope you fail bigger, badder, stronger and faster this time!
Customers don't "ask" to go potty in the fitting rooms (known as "Le Pisserie" in the Men's Dept), so why should an employee?
Memories of Belk in Florence:
Waiting up to 45 minutes to get into the building for a 4:30am schedule b/c management is unaware, somehow, that the daily truck needs processing and that people who are always scheduled at 4:30 have no one to let them in b/c all management is too lazy to get up that early.
Store manager staying in the office for up to 3 hours with the door locked, after all the bags of Bojangles breakfast are all brought in.
Granola bars for food, during a 20 minute break in the middle of a marathon, 14-hour inventory session. The sign on the basket: "One Treat Per Person, Please!"
"Just do da best you can, heh-heh-heh!" [Encouragement from management]
"There's PLENTY of ROOM!" "Stock rooms are NOT for STOCK!!"
Sewage, 2 inches high, flooding the customer service area, all the while business continues and chairs are set up for people to wait for their gift wrapping while the tide comes in.
"That's NOT how you PULL PLASTIC! You KNEEL DOWN and PICK IT UP!" [Kneel down and kiss it, Bo-Time chompin', paper pusher!]
"Cram-A-Lam!"
"The Blow Flies are escapinnnng!!!"
"Don't you worry about me [says the ex-store manager who stole $16,000 and came out smelling like roses headed to Florida], the store I'm getting? Where I'm at, you can practically SEE the WATER!"
"Good Times!!"
"According to MY watch, you still have FIVE Minutes! This won't take long! Get some gloves, grab a flat cart and a hand truck, find [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], and go move those fixtures 2 feet over for Visual who have already gone home for the day (12:30pm) before you leave (you've been there 9 and 1/2 hours already, unloading a truck, processing, changing signs, setting displays for Visual who get paid salary to leave early and your shift is only 4 hours, scheduled)."
[After the 2nd 4 hour sale set in one week and the store just opened] "Guys, you used the wrong toppers! We're using the blue not the purple today. Purple goes up tomorrow. Someone's got to go change all those. And Clearance (CLARENCE, as it's widely known) prices have changed again, today. And, remember, when you change those, the small sign goes on the left this week, the large on the right. Unless there's a table in the aisle with a Door Buster, then you need a large sign on that, and a small sign on the row next to it. With a topper if it's going up to 40% off. And yesterday's 40% off is 25% today if you read the CAL. Unless it says 40% off in the circular, then you can ignore the 25% off and just use what they advertise."
"Check your Plan-A -Gram."
"Can you get another manager, I'm kinda tied up at the moment" [meaning Secret Breakfast and pastries just arrived]
Let's have our morning "meeting" in locations where there are no places to sit.
"What were you doing in the restroom?!" [My favorite. Nunya business!]
"If I see another cell phone I'm taking it from you!" [Says mgr who can't live without theirs.. And, like, go ahead and try to take my personal, private property. See what happens!]
"No drinks or food on the Sales Floor!!!!" [Unless you're Cosmetics or a manager with iced cappuccino and pastries, schmoozing with the useless Visual mgr who got the long-standing GOOD Visual mgr fired so she could have his job-- after she trained under him.
"So goes Cosmetics-- So goes The Store"
"This looks heavy (700-lb hosiery fixture). Get one of The Guys to lift it."
"Do me a favor.." Always from management. Like anyone cares to do favors for lazy people who sit in offices with microwaves, tv's, fridges, mood lighting and large bags of Bo-Picnic spreads.
"Eh! Wat you want me to do? Crush boxes, or make a bale? I can't do both!" "I don't have to take dis, I can go back to FedEx!" "Dis is how I seal the box [online order] just like at FedEx. You see? No air.. can get in 'dere. It is sealed so tight, it won't get crushed or caught on the conveyor. It is sealed so tight, the customer will be lucky to be able to get de shoes out!"
My favorite story from there was the BK breakfast "samwiches" handed out to the operations crew unloading a truck. They got stopped to have a short meeting, got biscuits handed out, got told they needed to work faster, but, whoah! What're you doing, they were asked? We're eating our biscuits, they said. No,no! Management says, there's no time for that! Go back to processing, now!
Even "Lolly" [Yo PIE is HERE!] couldn't handle all that power, fame and heaps of ca$h for that pitiful job. Gone! >POP!< Ba-Domp-Bomp-Bomp!
And that trash compactor with the 2 ft square chute that always got stuck with Visual junk! The Squish Machine never had a chance!
What. A. Joke.
The morning meeting are nothing but threats upon threats. How about threatening the new hires that watch us old timers work while they do NOTHING!!!! Store 0396, Oxford, Mississippi
Store 184 has a bad reputation and so does that horrible store manager who only cares about her Mercedes, many vacations, and free lunches paid for by the belk store credit card. What a c u n t. I’m glad I’m gone from that place.
florence sc, magnolia mall. Same thing. Bizarre elementary school like atmosphere with bullitan boards, candy during inventory, having to ask to go to the restroom. Now it’s a store of new hires and a mess.