For the love of god, don't EVER become a Kohl's salaried manager - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
22 Mar 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

** Great pay once you become a store manager ** You receive a high level or respect & admiration from friends & family when you tell them you work here ** 4 weeks vacation right off the bat (but there's a catch)

Cons

** Horrific work-life balance... upper management says that they want you to have a work-life balance, but that's practically impossible if you work in "the ghetto" ** Corporate provides very little payroll to stores... there is one employee per every 40 customers ** Stores in "ghetto" areas are nearly impossible to manage because corporate assumes that EVERY store in the company is like one based out of Wisconsin. ** You're just a number ** Regional management and above treat store salaried managers like crap, but they expect us to kiss the ground our employees walk on ** Unrealistic corporate expectations ** Store management has very little control over employee morale. ** Horrific turnover amongst salaried managers ** Training at all levels sucks

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5.0
20 Jun 2026
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Pros

flexible work schedule great coworkers location is very continent

Cons

store hours change every few years you can be moved a lot in one day (bothered others not me) certain customers WILL recognize you as the "lady who would not honor kohl s cash from 5 years ago"

3.0
29 Jun 2026
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Pros

managers can be friendly at times

Cons

Little to no training been working here for almost a year now there’s still something I don’t know every day. What was most difficult for me was being at registers as I was trained in two days by shadowing someone. There are so many situations and problems that will come up every day and you will learn something new! They never taught me about Kohl’s cash, how to read receipts, reprint or edit receipts. They schedule so little so when you do learn something there’s no chance of rehearsal because you come in three weeks later working at a different department.

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