Working at Macys — Reviews by Employees

My first few days as an on call position was very confusing. They just told me from the date of being hired that I had training, and they didnt tell me exactly where was it going to be, what was I going to be. They're not very informal to their employees which makes it so confusing to work there. I HATE IT THERE! I used to work at forever 21 and got paid less but I'd rather go back to forever 21 than stay in Macys! They are not clear on what to do as a new hire and never give me the chance to ask questions. After I was done with one of my paper work, the manager thats suppose to be helping me left so I had no idea what to do after filling out the paper work! STUPID BUNCH OF OLD PEOPLE!

I have worked for this company for about a year now and for some reason I am still there, hopefuly not for long. IT IS INSANE!!! Your co-workers are animals... is like animal planet. It is commission based and one will kill another over a sale. If a person walks in the store and picks up a couple of items you star hearing, "that customer is mine", "I saw him first", "I said hello first", "oh yeah, is mine because I pointed at the fitting room". This are mostly the employees that have worked there forever and will runover anyone and do whatever to ring every sale possible". Then you have the ones that open macys credit accounts and can get away with murder; no I mean murder literaly, like if they stab you for real management would act as if nothing happened and let them get away with it. They can do no wrong. I have seen employees curse and use the worse vocabulary on the sales floor several times, and do worse things and when you bring it up to management, they look at you and say, "oh yeah, noone is above the law I'll take care of it". And it all continious without any changes. Pretty much, if the employee lies and does whatever it takes to open up Macys credit accounts they can do WHATEVER they want. So overall co-workers is the harderst part of working at this fine department store. So look out for the old timers.

We are treated as if we were elementary school children. We are mostly college educated waiting for much better jobs. We give our best to no avail.

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Pay for HS kids
Hours if they like you
Promotions are easy if you know the right people
Easy to get time off

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Pay for adults with a family
Hours if you are not a favored employee
Promotions ^^^^
Co-workers usually suck or dont speak english

Overall I didnt care for it much, but I have worked at work *cough* IPC International *cough*

Macys is a company of low grade management .They have no regard for people who produce results and will abuse them if they make more in comission that the managers salary. You will get fake awards but will be let go in a minute because of seniority and age in a layoff. If you are a hard worker and have goals to make a career with a company dont waste your time even if it feels like its good at Macys .Take a que from all the posts.Specially if you are a minority and under 40. MAcys lays off people under 40 first and does not matter how good you are . They will keep old lazy people before a young person with goals.

i had started out at Macys and seasonal help...worked well over 40 hrs a week in Juniors. and at that point it wasnt bad. after the holidays they kept me a little longer as a 'fill in' to cover other peoples shifts. i was ok with that. and for 3 weeks they had me fill in in the shoe department. and i worked my ass off and smiled and did what i needed to do. it was great until i learned that someone else was getting my commission. i asked my manger about it and they said "well, they actually work here, you are a temp" bull sh*t!!! i walked out and got a better job within the week.

working for over 5 years as a manager . And now laid off as others who have served less years than me still remain. I gave up my hard earned time and life for macys thinking i would have a great career. however thats not the case .

let me sum it up:

If Macy's was a person, i would strangle it and beat it with a stick.

Horrible. Everything about it.

wink! wink! So here i go just finished my first day at Macys....before i get to that let me get to this...I LOVE MACYs...the parade of legends, the fashion capital of moderate dept stores...i had no idea of the backlash against my favorite place to shop....i guess i never paid too much attention to anything past the merchandise..I was looking for dress code advice and stumbled upon this hella-blog!!!!you guys are severe, but i decided to catalog my days with Macys...So just keep in mind i was delighted and estatic to start my career with macys, today was virtual training from 8-6pm, one thing about me is i am smarter than your average bear. so first thing i noticed was my employment packet was botched..i was hired as parttime, but for some reason unbeknownst to me i was checked in as seasonal...red flag, idk...i was told it didnt really matter, atleast not now. So next thing was virtual training+pos simulations (which were fun)...I was not told to print out cert. so i didnt,,, even though i shoud of, and well of course that might one day come back and bite me in the ass. what was weird is how i felt when the person in charge of my training popped in to check on me while i was using the training register.....knowing i just started he/she hovered over my shoulder sorta impatient with my lack of knowledge of the key system,,,that my freinds is psychology 101... he/she knows i wasnt ready but needed to start chipping away at my confidence...well i also told he/she that i had another job on certain week days he/she stated it was fine, (that was during my first interview),, but now that i am a new hire, my schedule is actually already conflicted...is it true, do they actually have seminars on how to dissect a person, Was his /hers unorganization part of the greater scam....Will my lack of training be my fault. Well past all that i felt very comfortable on my first day, but at the same time i picked up on alot of red flags..eg. when i was introduced to my store workers it was pleasent . but coworkers within my dept was tense and quick even though they were not busy,, do they already hate me,? thier first question was was i ft or pt..are they already broken and am i suppose to take one of thier jobs.. i hope not!! they seemed nice just guarded,,,well so far i still love macys for shopping but will i love macys for employment. stay tuned...wink!wink!..