retail assistant manager

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Jockey International

At first I thought it would be a good company to work for, but after a couple of months it was very clear between the way that you're treated and the work atmosphere that it is not a good company to work for.  You have to fit down some of the aisles with your large cards with people packed in around you reaching over you reaching around you and at times pulling things out your hand as you're trying to grab it all I expected to go above and beyond what you would determined to be fast there's no way that you can make production the way they have everything set up. They gave everybody $4 raises and 3 months later took them back. They raised production to 120 so to make what you were making with the raise that is how much you would have to run for 2 consecutive weeks.  It was already impossible to make a hundred percent. On top of using scanners that are constantly shutting down on you or won't scan right and you have to reboot the system all while your production is ticking away. Out of the four supervisors you have picking only one of them treats you like a human being. When it's break time your break starts when the bell rings and it's for 10 minutes your time does not start when you get in the break room no matter where you're at in the plant so by the time you make it to the break room your break is over and you got to go back out onto the floor. For anyone who goes to work there good luck

I recently moved from New York City to Wisconsin 2 years ago and with a degree in Fashion, I feared that I wouldn't find a job in my line of work that wasn't working in a retail store. I have known about Jockey my whole life as all the men in my life are loyal to their products, and when I found out their corporate office was in Wisconsin, I knew I just had to work there. After a rigorous and challenging (in a good way) round of interviews, I was in! It is a very different pace than NYC and I love it. It is still fast paced and always changing, all the retail world is, but I have a voice in a lot of the decisions that affect our stores on a daily basis. I am not micromanaged and I really get to take the reigns on my department and the business. The majority of the people that work here have been here 15+ years, and I got to be honest, there is nothing that I want more than to be one of those employee (still have 13 years to go). It is family owned and everyone I work with feels like family. We all have the same goals, to make all store employees and customers happy, and to grow and develop our business. Working with so many people that genuinely enjoy coming to work is very transparent to everyone that interacts with our company. The company has been around for 140 years, which is rare these days in retail, and I really can see why. I have finally found a happy place in my career and working for a DREAM company!

While it seems like it almost anywhere, Jockey corporate is awful. They expect WAY to much out of the retail staff. Everything is done on Tuesday, shipment, promotion changes, markdowns, window changes, money deposits, all while taking care of customers. right now they’re forcing only one person to close at night, making all these tasks even more difficult. The pressure it adds, especially when not being correctly compensated is draining. Corporate tries to communicate and wants feedback from retail workers but never follows the advice, or just out right dismisses it all together. They also operate heavily on the notion ‘’customer is always right”. This wouldn’t be a problem if customers weren’t downright stealing and Jockey lets them get away with it. If someone complains, they get a gift card, as in if they say the store was too cold, or the size they needed wasn’t there, Jockey gives them a gift card. They constantly change policy and procedure, so you don’t know what’s out of date and what’s new, and they pinch pennies like no other. 

When I began working there I was a asm noticed the manager barely works, picks apart everything anyone does. Manager did not correct any issues w/employees let them do whatever they wanted to. An employee called me a racist name nothing done about it. I was then promoted after making said manager look good who was also promoted. Never enough staff store hard to staff. DM never helps and does not know what she is doing 9&% of the time. Even though DM lived close to the store refused to come help. Corporate does not listen to concerns about the DM lack of doing any work. Became increasingly stressed out due to the staff not being held accountable for the lack of work they refused to do. Received only a few hours of training by the DM No life work balance staff calling me at home non stop. Company says you have to be available 24/7 when you are being paid salary you figure out quick it does not make sense to get paid salary when you never really stop working. Would not recommend working for this company

What is the best part of working at the company?
No one "best" part. All around ok compared to other jobs

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
A lot of micromanaging from corporate levels that cause stress and unneeded work considering the relatively low pay. It could just be my store but the store manager is not supportive at all of any other management decisions made within the store. She will throw a staff member under the bus if it means she is allowed to ignore glaring problems in other aspects of the business

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Claims to be a team and as long as you are willing to put up with BS then that is true. But if you actually attempt to grow the business then you are looked up on as being in dissention. Not a good company to grow in on any sort of personal capacity

New manager is very paranoid. Doesn't like any of the staff that was hired before her. She thinks old staff is out to get her  Wants to hire new people to train them the way she wants. Seasonal employees got paid more to do less. Although there is a lack of communication between the store manager, the key holder's continue to do their job despite of how toxic the environment is. I requested days off never got them. Other employees got their days that were requested. Hours were cut ridiculously short. But continues to hire new people although the old staff has told management they were open to work more hours. Manager stays in the back for hours if there is another employee working the floor. Employee with anxiety is told deal with things alone. District manager was told of some of these situations but basically told employees to deal with it.

This company only cares about making money. The product is not good enough to sell itself, because they make you push the customer into leaving, because they are sick of being rushed by associates. Every hour on the hour emails and calls from higher up, taking you from the sales floor where you are needed. They give individual sales goals, they divide a team into dog eat dog. Associates get minimum pay, because their sales goals are not even accountable. Managers get blamed for everything. Even if people only come in to look around and leave. Managers hear about what failures they are for letting sales walk out the door. Conversions and metrics are every hour, which is a joke. Corporate offices get the paper work at the end of the day, so not sure why it's so important to do every hour readings, and traffic counts. So, if you take a job here, get ready to lick some cracks, because that's what they expect of you.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Work-life balance is great. Best I've ever had.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You're not truly empowered to do your job. No matter your level in the company, you're all task takers.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The people you work with are nice - like some of the nicest people. Even though female owned, you won't find a ton of diversity in higher-level roles (not just female diversity - diversity in thought, gender, race, etc.)

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
At times it can be busy, but overall it's very balanced. A steady flow of work. You need to be self motivated to find areas to improve for times you're slow. Not a place for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Days were always full and your inbox was never empty. Started with checking all orders that hit shipment hold and released what was possible. Learned many things about distribution and compliance to avoid deductions. Worked and interacted with many areas of the Company, and had a great support staff that was eager to learn and develop. The hardest part of the job was an attempt to keep up with the work load and rarely having an opportunity to interact with supervisor as they experienced the same workloads. Working with international agents for supplier compliance was difficult due to the time differences and having to have all contact via email. The most enjoyable part was my job as I loved what I did allowing me to be very effective and productive.

The environment is filled with health and safety hazards and no provided PPE.  We had limited materials, not enough to complete our tasks efficiently.  Pay raise was promised if one made production quota, but the quota was extremely unreasonable and impossible especially with the lack of working equipment.  No help from the supervisors.  When I had to ask where the materials were located, I had to wait for the supervisor to stop playing on her phone for about 10 minutes which took out of my production.  In the building less used there is no air conditioning and even less materials to work with, the supervisor does nothing except threaten the workers.  We were told untruthfully that the project was complete, so that we did not have to be compensated for overtime.

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