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Jessica's article nailed it, not in terms of groundbreaking literary quality but accurate in what goes on at Nordstrom. I read the other comments and it is obvious which comments were made by Nordstrom Employees trying to bully their points across to clear the Nordstrom name. Two aspects Jessica failed to mentioned were: "Being written-up" and the excessive bullying that goes on between department managers and their employees. When your sales numbers plummet due to returns or the economic down turn (which Nordstrom categorically refused to admit) your department manager has to "write you up" for underperformance. The performance goals are arbitrarily set based on prior years' monthly sales. They can shrink your department's merchandise, or move your department, give you evening hours when few customers are shopping, or even hire on far too many sales associates, and three write-ups based solely on one person's assessment, and HR gives you the boot. And, the plastic HR people are thrilled to have their jobs having clawed their way out of the retail trenches to a 9-5 job. Secondly, the very few Department Managers who don't bully their employees to perform are eventually let go. Ever wonder why turnover is so great or that so many employees are moving to the Rack where they are paid hourly wages? The long hours of retail are easy compared to the excessive abuse levied by management.— May 6, 2013 7:09 a.m.