Ok - Supervisor Bealls Employee Review

Located in sunny Florida. Some Buyers have been at company for over 20 years. Tianne was very authentic. Her retail story is amazing.

Constantly changing strategy and buying process. Expectations are too high for workload and size of business area. Rotated 5 CEOs/CMOs in 3 years. Every 6 months an internal review of merchandising team. If your performance was good and someone didn't like you then you were let go. Expected to just follow along, ask no questions and do as you are told. That is not the mindset of a true merchant. One day you could be the favorite and the next day you are out. The treatment of buyers was terrible, and they all feel unappreciated. Absolutely too much travel expected. Buying process unclear. Didn't feel like you were in charge of your area. Not a normal business review or open to buy process. Allocation by the planning team was horrible. Stores would be out of stock and you would get yelled at for poor merchandising. Management would talk a good game related to teamwork, but everyone worked in silos. They do not pay well compared to other retailers. They sell you on the Bealls culture and lifestyle of Florida. Don't buy into it. The stress level is extremely high. Managers say they are authentic and being genuine. They look you in the eye and then talk behind your back to management team. You don't feel supported at all.

The customers and coworkers were easy to handle and the work was easy enough, when a customer came through you greeted them and checked them out and otherwise you cleaned or sorted the store.

The work doesn't pay well, especially since they won't give you proper hours. Towards the end of my time there I was getting maybe 4-5 hours every two weeks. It didn't sound much better for the supervisors, it sounded like a lot of them were either working under 20 hours or well over 40. They'll also just up and abandon you without warning, that's what they did to me, they never even fired me, they just kinda stopped putting me on the schedule. Even if they don't abandon you, while the work isn't *difficult*, it is draining. If the store is slow you'll swear that the seconds turned into minutes and if the store is busy you'll feel your soul slipping from your fingers. Maybe you'll get treated better if you have some experience or aren't a seasonal hire, but the manager also told me that they'd never let go of a seasonal before, so you know.