High pressure + low pay = modern southern slavery - Selling Specialist Belk Employee Review

1.0
7 Oct 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You can buy designer clothes really cheap with discounts

Cons

The constant pressure to capture new credit card applicants is a bit much and then to be rewarded with a candybar is a bit cheesy. Christmas will never be the same with minimal time off (less than 16 hours) antiquated technology for pos systems and there is that shark tank climate working on hourly AGAINST commission. Many days you work for free.

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5.0
5 May 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
5 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I loved my job. I’m met so many wonderful people. And the associates couldn’t have been better.

Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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