Working at Macys — Reviews by Employees

Absolutely horrible work environment.
Employees always arguing, stealing sales, throwing temper tantrums on the floor, even get complaints from other associates and customers.They have no professionalism and no respect for others, which makes it a very difficult place to work, yet Macy's doesn't seem to care and just turns a blind eye.

It's not the worst place I worked but the credits were annoying.

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.