Disgusted - Merchandise Supervisor JCPenney Employee Review

JCPenney is a failing company. Don't waste your time even applying. The CEO thinks that during a world wide pandemic it is somehow okay to take a $4.5 million raise when they are letting go well over 14,000 employees. Not only did she take the raise but Jill did not take a pay decrease when COVID-19 hit but she was okay with not paying anybody else. I have been working for Penney's for over four years now and they have been the worst four years of employment. Pay is so bad it is laughable. Full tome benefits are awful as well. Insurance is one of the worst policies out there. Obamacare is way better than what they offer. Work life balance is nonexistent. In smaller stores like I'm in, I have to do the job of two full time people while only getting 35 hours a week and I don't even make $15 an hour. We have a Sephora in my store and my job is supposed to oversee a lot of their operations. What does merchandising have to do with anything related to Sephora? Corporate is a joke. They don't take the time to understand that bigger stores and smaller stores run so differently and the expect way more out of the supervisors at smaller locations. They're rude and act as if we are all still in high school and the only thing they care about is who is sitting a the cool table. Who thought it to be a good idea to invest well over 5 million dollars in a mall location but not fix dot com? With a lot of people looking to online shopping to be their main way of shopping they chose to invest so much in a physical store. I have never had a general manager as bad as I have one now, They have no regard to work life balance. I'm trying to make it through school that is why I still work here, but my gm thinks JCPenney is in the business of curing cancer instead of selling shirts. Jill and all the executives have made me and most of my fellow associates sick with the actions they have done. I believe Penneys will not be around much longer and to be honest I won't be sad to see them gone. They have no regard for the people that actually make them money. It is sickening to watch a company that used to have better qualities fall so far from its original business model.