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Processor, Plano, TX (July 25, 2008)



  • Employee Workplace: I worked for the Insurance divsion. We never saw customers at the building. We had to dress businee...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: I went to one interview and then I had to take a physical and some ohter tests. I don't remember wh...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: It was close to $8.00 an hour to start. Health benefits after 90 days and employee pays a part. they...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: The products were going away from the traditional whole/term life insurance and moving more toward ...   READ MORE

  • Assistant Department Manager, Salem, OR (July 25, 2008)



  • Employee Workplace: Very little room for advancement within the store. They have a coorporte manager training program ...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: Only one interview. I has worked as a sales associtate previously so I had knowledge of the store a...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: The pay was not good. I was making $13 an hour. There was no overtime. They did not want to pay it. ...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: Poor outlook. They were continually cutting positions. They would elimated a needed positon way too...   READ MORE

  • Sales Associate , Baton Rouge, LA (June 20, 2008)



  • Employee Workplace: High volume sales in catalog and later in men's accessories. The job was stressful. It paid poorly....   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: Professional. The interviewer impressed me. She was my acting supervisor in the catalog department ...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: The adjusted minimum wage from 1968 is over nine dollars an hour. My pay when I quit was $8.17 an ho...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: Competitive business. The only company I know that treats its employees well is Costco. I worked at...   READ MORE

  • Sales Associate, Baton Rouge, LA (June 10, 2008)



  • Employee Workplace: I worked for about a year and a half at J.C. Penney at the Mall of Cortana in Baton Rouge, Louisian...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: Professional. Excellent experience. Straight forward, nothing tricky or silly.   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: Low retail store wages. Not much reason to celebrate.   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: Retail is competitive! I think that J.C. Penney has done well under its current management to respo...   READ MORE

  • Sales Rep, Chattanooga, TN (October 5, 2007)



  • Employee Workplace: I just had a question about EOE... recently, our store was toured by a group of asst. mgrs and stor...   READ MORE


  • Stylist, Goldsboro, NC (July 22, 2007)



  • Employee Workplace: My experience with this company could be much better if the employees was as important as the manag...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: The company has a lot of benefits to offerand they are good ones, except, the pay er hour, minimum ...   READ MORE





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