Office Politics Made a Great Company Just Okay - Anonymous employee JCPenney Employee Review

4.0
2 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pension (for those hired before December 31, 2006), 401k, associate discount, flexibility with scheduling

Cons

You can only get the full 25% associate discount when you use preferred methods of payment; management will have pets, making their opinions very biased. Pay is not fair at all; you need to be friends with the management when you get hired on to get a higher pay scale. Working holidays like Thanksgiving and around Christmas are horrible. I was never able to travel out of state around the holidays to visit family (and of course that was the ONLY time that all of my relatives would get together--we live all over).

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5.0
20 Jan 2026
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Pros

Laid back work, nice people to work with.

Cons

Sales driven. There doesn't seem to be much training on how they want the cashiers to do their job.

3.0
3 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

easy job, slow most of the time, need to be able to find things to do to keep busy

Cons

when its slow you are barely scheduled for hours, need to get credit card applications

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