Suffocating Corporate Hierarchy. Stifled Empowerment and Personality - Assistant Buyer II Ross Stores Employee Review

2.0
18 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits: -401k match -summer Friday's -3 weeks PTO -Decentish pay (not accounting for how much you work though) - Your personality will become bulletproof because they will mentally and emotionally exhaust you - You are thrown into the business and create impact from day 1

Cons

Buying Organization: - Racist within the organization and racist to vendors and agents - Your experience at the company is DEPENDENT on the mood and personality and working style of your Buyer/ VP. If you get someone that doesn't match you, you're SOL. - You're working at least 10 hours a day at a pace that requires 110% of effort out of you everyday because the teams are so understaffed - Your manager's subjective feedback determines your performance. Yet, only sales and margin determine your manager's performance. See the disconnect here? They are empowered to not give a _ about you. - They will move you around under different buyers and different areas without notice, without consideration, without asking. -Super high turnover, you will make friends but they will leave - What you do and the skills you learn is super niche and the longer you stay, the harder it is to leave the retail/merchandising industry -Management is shady and they will hide things that don't even need to be hidden - Poor handling of the George Floyd/BLM movement. Only acknowledged that looting of stores happened in the first 3 days of occurrence - If you come into the organization requiring different methods of training, they will not provide that for you. They will expect you to fit a mold and if you do not fit it, they will force it out of you or you will feel like you need to leave.

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Ross Stores Response
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Thank you for voicing your concerns. Please know our Associates are our greatest asset at Ross and we are committed to building diverse teams and an inclusive culture. We work with internal and external Diversity, Equality & Inclusion partners to ensure we continue to respect, value, and celebrate the diversity of those who work and shop with us. You’ve raised a number of concerns and we take your comments very seriously. Your experience is not reflective of the environment we want to build and will be looked into. We continue to encourage Associates to reach out to their HR Business Partners with questions or concerns.

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