We have a store manager working just 9-5 or 8-4. Monday thru Friday, never working sundays and working one Saturday every month. The store manager does not know how to close their own store, does not understand the register, cash office, merchandising, STH, Complaints have been made and nothing is being done, Why is this being allowed?
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Our store manager comes in for a couple hours and leaves. He will be off for a whole week and never use PTO time. Last I checked that was stealing time. Can't report him bc he says they will just call him and tell him and he will tell them it didn't happen and they will believe him.
our store manager worked 9-4 mon-fri always off saturday and sunday. never worked past 4.
@f7 I worked in Beaufort Ga and the store manager didn’t even have a key to the store to open or close the store!! The person cried even if you said boo! Don’t see how she still has her job!!
You’d be surprised at the antics those store managers pull off these days, especially since the regionals only seem to communicate through cell phones now! If I were a regional, there would definitely be some surprise visits happening. But let’s be real—most of them are just lounging at home until they hear Tom Harvey is coming. Honestly, there are maybe two regionals who actually care, and you can tell by the state of their stores. I’ve heard managers in my area bragging about strolling in at 6 AM and then clocking out by two or three. I thought no one was allowed in the stores before 8 AM? It’s not like anyone else’s schedules have changed to let them come in at 6! And what are they even doing there alone at that hour? The truth is, these stores will never run like the old Belk again.
a manager at a big box retail store working bankers hours and weekends off???
- something does not smell right with that.
if an associate or manager makes an excel line complaint and they are targeted because of it, that is a major lawsuit. Especially if it falls under the whistleblower law.
@15g----something is very wrong here. no stable retail company would allow store managers to do this. i've been in retail (as management, and HR, and corporate level HR) for over 35 years, and have NEVER heard of a company allowing this type of behavior. Does anyone thing Belk is trying to sabotage itself? Anyone have any good ideas on how and why the company operates like this? It makes no sense.
@OP my store mgr comes in late and leaves early.
Thats why this company is in such trouble.
@rc Neither the excel line nor HR Shared services is anonymous or confidential - they go right to the store manager with the issue.
@f7 everyone hired since shadetree..I mean sycamore has taken over has been a "buddy hire" not posting positions but filling them with outside Macy's rejects. Does anyone else not see this? All dept. RvPs are special needs and couldnt sell an umbrella in a rainstorm..
They are brought in a placed because they know how to use kneepads well.. enough said. .
@cn you know as well as any other employee that the manager ALWAYS get notified who snitched and if its anonymous they pull managers and start investigating who it is. I was even asked once who i thought it sounded like etc. I wanted no part of it. My SM barely works 4 hours a day. He leaves several times a day for "lunch" for hours at a time and leaves the other managers to open and close some work open to close for several days straight. the RVPs work from home and act like they would do something about it but in reality they only do enough to keep their GVP happy. The GVP is a joke as well.
@kg+1
huh? who said they are jealous? Who's not taking care of themselves? What are you talking about?
Y'know, instead of being jealous of your manager outfoxing the higher ups in this dying company, you could learn a thing or two about taking care of yourself instead of a company that will drop you in an instant the moment it becomes convenient/profitable to do so...
Our store manager said her grandfather died and she had to go to Kentucky for the funeral. Then two days later she was in Panama City Beach having a good ol’ time. Of course I’m sure she used bereavement pay. 🤷♀️
Our store has had 5 store managers in 3 years. Every single store manager thinks they will change the world. They never do. We've had nice store managers, micromanagers, mean/nasty store managers, lazy store managers, you name it... we've had every kind of manager. The one thing they all have in common. They are all gone, none work for Belk anymore. Just Sayin'
They dont care.
Hes making easily 200k+ for the volume of Crabtree and feels like he's entitled to be nothing but a figurehead.
Get used to it.
Our manager (store 458) never ever closes, never ever works Sundays, rarely has to work a saturday. Never walks the floor, sits in the office all day - supposedly always has "calls" but are they really having 5 and 6 calls every single day? Doubt it. All of us associates see it, there's no respect. I bet the other managers feel the same way. We've complained - nothing happens. I don't understand.
This sounds like a dream! Our store manager (raleigh region) is such an overbearing control freak. Everything has to be her way and the micromanaging is out of control. We wish she'd take a day away!
But seriously are their any good managers left at belk? Anyone worth anything seems to have left and all we have remaining are do nothings shielded by even worse RVPs. We have to face facts that the company is on its way out and the sooner we all love on the better
A store manager that does not understand how to close their own store, cash office procedures, and merchandising is more concering to me than working days. Who hired this manager? Was this a 'buddy' hire?
Everyone should work a fair schedule, including a mix of nights, weekends, holidays, what makes some people think they are entitled to work a cushy schedule? Definitely not company policy.
any store manager only working day shifts and no weekends is unacceptable. if the rvp is allowing this it is even worse. you need to contact the Belk excel line, name the store manager, rvp, and group vp in the report and it will be sent to corporate HR, they won't have access to it, that should take care of the problem. nobody should have to tolerate these types of managers.
The only great thing that will happen at Belk is when it goes out of business