Pros
The only benefits of this company are this gratis, co-workers that are like family, and great clients. And none of these are worth the struggle. The gratis is also only ok, and for every great co-worker you’ll have 5 shady, and the same goes for clients.
Cons
They will suck out your soul, and make you feel completely worthless and insane. The VP or whatever she is now, actually talks about the reviews, and says.. people who can’t handle it write bad reviews, not true, that woman is actually evil. You will have a skeleton staff, which will force you to do work at home and then they will tell you, it’s the same thing as stealing hours. While all this is going on, you are forced to purchase balloons and cookies with your own money, and it’s such a pain in the butt to get paid back, that you end up just forgetting about it because you are so busy working 14 hour days, every single day for a sale, after all your employees quit because they cut their hours and took their benefits. This company is horrible! They will brainwash you into thinking you should fire people because you are too tired to see straight. People are not machines. Also the company is still in the dark ages, and the small amount of technology they have constantly breaks. As a store manager you no credibility, and are basically just a high paid babysitter. You can’t even order supplies without asking your DM, yet you can purchase cookies. They also will yell at you if you can’t create a chalk board sign, because that’s how you make money in cosmetics. Macy’s really needs to open their eyes and get rid of all of upper management with the exception of one woman in that has been there forever and somehow still has a soul. Although she doesn’t stick up for her people, that really put their all into the company only to be stabbed in the back, if they stick up for themselves. And I left on my own. The location I was at can barely keep a store manager for a year, and has been through more managers than years the store has been open. You can only last in this company if you don’t know how to think for yourself, and are fine with spending all your time working... you do make hourly. And you can eat all the cookies you’ll have to purchase, and you’ll look great with your loads of free cosmetics. Just don’t get sick, you’ll end up in the hospital. I should have listened to everyone when they told me how bad this company was. I will never make up for the time I lost with my family and the memories, your health is not worth it!!! And it’s true, any good review on here is written by freelancers or the same people. They really do talk about these reviews in calls. I’ve been wanting to write this for so long. Don’t take this job, you’ll find something else. And if you do, get a few checks and some gratis.