be more realistic and less greedy - Department Manager Rack Division Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
24 Jul 2010
Recommend
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Pros

opportunity for growth benefits 401k discount learn a lot

Cons

there is definitely favoritism between upper and lower managers. run very slim on hours yet constantly piling on more responsibility and they expect everything to be done fast and perfect. They are very greedy in terms of allocating hours to the different depts. We have a huge department and more than a million things to get done everyday yet no help to do it. my employees and i have to kill ourselves everyday just to get a portion of the tasks and responsibilities done. i would be very interested to see how big the rack's profit margin is because they run so lean on hours.

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