The Hell of Retail-Kohl's

Being the holiday season, I want to rant about the utter shittiness of retail. There are different categories of retail, which I've worked in: grocery stores, novelty stores, and department stores. Just to name a few: Kohl's, Fry's Marketplace, and Spencer's Gifts. It's been at least 16 months since I've woked at Kohl's, and those have been the best 16 months of my life. I refuse to step foot into a Kohl's, in fact, I boycott Kohl's.

Starting out at Kohl's, I worked in the shoe department where I was given at least three days out of the week-about 5 hours a day. I had no experience at the cash registers and already I was getting this "Have you gotten any credits today???" by the managers. This is getting the customers to sign up for a Kohl's credit card. With this, the customer gets rewarded with 20% of their purchase cut.

Now why does Kohl's stress this? This persuasion of customers signing up for credit cards who are most likely financially fucked? This is how corporate gets most of their money, not from the product they sell, but by the interest of their credit cards. Uhhh, that's called FRAUD. That pair of pants you just bought with your Kohl's credit card isn't really $19.99, more like $23 once you've paid back your debt.

Every day, I got harrassed to get more credits, and while that was happening, my hours were cut to only one day out of the week. The more credits I obtained, the more hours I was "rewarded." No wonder the particular store I worked at looked like a shitty pig pen. Only three people were running the several departments at once because all the others had their hours cut over corporate greed.

With that said, I recommend NOT shopping or working at big box department stores like Kohl's because of their credit cards.