I am always in favor of giving young people the opportunity to gain their first experience somewhere. However, most of these young people do not want to gain any experience after getting a job. In the past most of them would never get a job here or they would get rid of them very quickly. But in today’s Macy’s they are more valued than those who even do their work or correct their mistakes. It seems that the criteria for hiring has been lowered a lot?
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Let’s not pretend that there used to be some “golden age” where retail salespeople were amazing and flawless.
I remember working at Macy’s during college about a decade ago. The pay was awful…around $8 an hour with unreliable commissions. The younger employees were very hit or miss and a lot of the tenured employees were stubborn and gate-keepy. The same was true of management; managers were either great or phony and uncaring.
So, how far back do we need to go to enter the golden age? The 90s? The 80s?
Eh I think that the bar for retail hiring has been very low for 20 years or so.
As the saying goes…you get what you pay for.
macys has shifty lawyers who will settle for pennies on the dollar for any type of lawsuit. if your case is worth 100k you be lucky to see 7-10k and sign a agreement that you cant sue again.. its a dirty company with Jeff being the biggest crook (9 million bonus for laying off 125k )yet the clown gives Ukraine 5 million..
Absolutely! Have a pulse? You're hired.
Any of the young people they hire have no work ethic. They walk around doing nothing playing on their cell phones and now IPads. They never respond to pages or phone calls when needed.
They sit up in their offices chatting, gossiping , making personal calls, drinking Starbucks and playing computer games.
They barely a work a forty hour week. They call off because they need a mental health day, from what I don’t know..
Good luck Macy’s’ . When the boomers are all retired your stores will not operate. This looming age discrimination litigation against Macy’s is long overdue.
Ageism happens alot in retail.
I have seen this happen in management, hiring a lot of very young and inexperienced managers. Seems like they wanna go young but they need to be careful before they get hit with an age discrimination lawsuit.
Our store never posts the captain position s or any management position.
In fact whenever a desirable position opens up it is filled without posting usually with one of our store managers favorites.
Macy’s is an unethical organization.
Spoken by someone who's never met a phone hire 🤣
Perhaps the young people are being given the opportunities because they want them and the tenured people with experience in many cases don't want the positions that the young people are taking. In our store the only people who are interested in a Captain or Manager job are new people who tend to be young.
Every time one of these jobs open it is posted for a week for everyone to apply and nobody does, so we end up hiring a new person on the team or someone from outside the company. These jobs are hard and the experienced people know it and don't want them. You shouldn't complain about the caliber of people or the criteria to hire them if you and your peers won't step up to lead. We have a company to run and sometimes young and/or inexperienced are the only people interested in taking the jobs.