Some SVPs & EVPs won't manage, but keep taking the money. - Manager JCPenney Employee Review

2.0
16 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of talented, creative people working very hard, trying to make a living and support their families. Great ideas abound, with most people at the specialist to director level giving their best efforts to move the company back into the black. It could have been great.

Cons

Some SVPs & EVPs won't manage, but keep taking the money, backing poor managers whose primary contribution seems to be a near-expert brown-nosing technique. Ego stroking is quickly lapped up, even when reports do very little but take credit for the work performed by their teams. Weird and unacceptable behaviors are tolerated, even protected, and employees who speak up and try to make things better are often marginalized and shown the door. Management should be ashamed, and top leadership likely has no idea things are so bad just a couple of rungs below them on the corporate ladder.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

If you like working early morning hours and getting off early in the afternoon (which I do) this is a great part-time job. I was a college student when I worked here so it worked perfectly with my schedule. The pay is pretty decent and the people you work with are friendly.

Cons

Only real downside is that it's retail. You're going to run into some rude customers from time to time. There's always work to do and not enough time given to do it sometimes. But as long as you work hard and managers see that you're trying your best there isn't too much pressure put on you.

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