I left the company in mid 2017, so I have been out of the loop for a while, but I was asked by my regional to “purge” six employees who were over 55 years of age, they were allowed severance, but it still was not a good business practice as they were all dependable workers and kept the store in tact. I was also instructed that I had to decline vacation time to “increase profitability”, another words cheat people out of their earned time off. When I left the regional manager was making over $200,000 a year and only worked four days a week. I can’t imagine was the company has turned into in 2020.
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I wonder if they did the age thing. Most of the older ones is the workers.
I was a STM and my store manager asked me multiple times if I was “happy” with my husband, he then got fired for ringing up his own purchases, imagine that. What a perv.
my regional was cheating on his wife with a store manager, I saw the two of them at a bar together making out about a hour away from where I lived at the time, when I was having my sisters bachelorette party, they never acknowledged me and I didn’t say anything, I quit shorty after. Lots of that stuff is still going on at belk.
All I can suggest is CALL OUT, dont let them take your time
Sometimes we got the schedule on Saturday. A few times on saturday night.
I remember out slick manager who made out like a bandit– took a cruise every holiday weekend (7 or more in one year!) and ran a large size store into the ground. Upon leaving for a different store we conveniently came up short $16,000 which, if one was careful, could pay for several cruises, sure! His punishment for the store disaster was to be handed a smaller, sea-side store further South. "Don't you worry about me," he said. "Where I'm goin' you can practically see the water!"
Associate vacations?
All we ever got was declined. For no reason at all. They would tell us to schedule appointments ahead of time and enter the time in the system. Then, 3 days before the appointment, time off would be declined.
Schedules were made and posted one day before the next week began. Changes often happened less than 7 hours before the next shift and those changes were daily.
When in doubt, call out.
Even the goofy STM's called out all the time b/c even they couldn't get time off properly. Not that I care about them, but, y'know.
Oh yes, we also were told to not approve vacation for bogus reasons, once I was told to tell employees time off is declined because of the “pre back to school sale” what a bunch of garbage.
Do you have all that in writing? If so, you should report the company.