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Date Reviewed: March 03, 2008 |
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Years of Employment: 2007 – 2008 |
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Overall Grade: F (27%) |
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General Comments: My general comment is:
Dillards is a place you will only have to work for to understand the mistreatment I (and so many other past employees) speak of. Its a company that is disguised as a professionally dressed puppet show. |
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Past Employee's Review of Dillards's Business Ethics |
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Grade: F (27%) |
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Comments: First of all, Dillards is a joke. A department store that I'm making my personal mission to boycott (bringing along as many other "patrons" with me as possible). I swallowed the bullet and wasted my time in the Boise Idaho location for 3 months. The merchandise is crap (seams come out of the $40+ shirts all the time), the management is pathetic, the store is unmaintable (due to the ridiculous Sales per hour goal/unbelievable amounts of markdowns leaving merchandise strung all over the tables, bunkers, floors etc). This causing the employee are all bitter & depressed. Dont get me wrong getting paid every thursday is pretty sweet but only if you can actually afford to pay your bills with the meager $300 you might get (if your W2's are claimed high enough). You can smell the unproffessionalism the moment you walk into the store, thats if you didnt already hear the store manager screaming (at the top of her lungs) at an employee in front of customers and other coworkers (true story on several accounts). Dillards boasts about their $3 million mark, but what does that matter?? There should not be a cut throat, dark, depressing vibe in a department store!! Especially so much to the point where coworkers DREAD (as in BAWL) coming to work. And Dillards wonders why the turn over rate is over 108%. The company does not care about anything other than MONEY MONEY MONEY, forget being anything other than just a number to them. Even if you are a naturally hard worker. |
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| 1. Was Dillards ethical? |
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Past Employee's Review of Dillards's Management and Culture |
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Grade: F (29%) |
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Comments: Management desperately needs some IN DEPTH morals and ethics traing ASAP!! As well as a ROTATION of music on their 60 disc changer (not the same godforsaken cd 3 months straight) |
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Questions & Answers: |
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| 3. Did Dillards’s management have an open-door policy? |
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| 4. Did Dillards’s management care about employees? |
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| 5. Were you given freedom to perform your job at Dillards without constant supervision? |
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| 6. Were there ample opportunities for career growth? |
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| 7. Did Dillards promote from within? |
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| 8. Was your job at Dillards challenging and rewarding? |
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Past Employee's Review of Dillards's Compensation, Benefits, and Training |
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Grade: F (20%) |
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Comments: Training? Their was training? No when I got hired we were supposed to go thru a 2 week department rotation (meaning work a different area every shift till training was over, giving more of a good feel to what you are good in). My training class didnt get that. Needless to say, I was thrown into the first department i worked, was miserable the whole time. I made the most of it by becoming friends with my coworkers (aka talking trash about the Dept. Manager), arranging(/re-arranging/arranging again) displays and fixtures, and completing hundreds of markdowns (thus causing my damned SPH to drop considerably). I didnt even bother to look at the benefits for Dillards (monetary or otherwise) due to the fact I could barely pay my own bills let alone the meager benefits they sort of almost kind of offered (that were an arm & and a leg) |
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