Administrative Dead End Trap - Administrative Assistant Ross Stores Employee Review

Do not be an administrative assistant for this company unless you want to work 20 years as an admin without ever being promoted. The only way for an admin to be promoted is if their boss gets promoted, so your own merit is never considered. If your boss is ever promoted, you get to become their executive assistant, which ultimately leads to generating an even higher amount of reports and larger work load than you already have. They make it almost impossible to transfer to merchandising or buying, even though you do the same work as level 2 assistant buyers. That also does not stop them from giving you a review every 6 months, as if constant criticism mixed with zero advancement opportunities would make you want to stay. Imagine getting a review as an administrative assistant knowing that it would never lead to a promotion of any kind, while merchants and buyers get promoted regularly and receive the compensation to match. You have to process the paperwork for these promotions while being told you cannot transfer to other positions that could lead to a true career. No thanks.