Pros
I enjoy working with my colleagues and team members. Genuinely nice people who want you to succeed. The same does not apply to most of upper management who are out for themselves. Bonuses can be great when the plans are achievable, something that is rarer and rarer as each season goes by.
Cons
It’s pretty clear, especially with recent direction coming from upper management and the board of directors that they do not care AT ALL about their employees and creating a positive, flexible work environment. We received no bonus, little to no raises, extremely tough reviews, have zero work life balance and right before we start Summer Fridays they decided to rescind their promise of a flexible hybrid schedule by making the entire merchandising and planning teams come in the office an extra day a week with minimal notice. All this is going to accomplish is to completely kill the already anemic company moral. The company refuses to listen to their buyers and planners who know the ins and outs of their businesses and instead forces tops down strategies that don’t work, while completely ignoring what the Ross customer actually wants. There is no accountability for upper management as the buyers are blamed for everything whether it’s poor sales results or assistants not performing when we are working 50+ hours a week to make the company billions of dollars in profit that the company then chose to spend on stock buy backs. They are punishing hard working employees when HR hired unqualified candidates, promoted people who were not ready/should not have been promoted, and let so many talented employees leave because they didn’t want to compensate them and address the real workload issues. WAKE UP ROSS STORES BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!