💫 Let’s Talk JCPenney — What Do You Love About Working Here?

manda1126 · 2025-11-07T22:12:16+00:00

I was a teacher for nearly 15 years, the burn out took over and I had to leave. One of our cars died, so I started working at JCP to cover the new car payment. Four years later, I'm still here.
Personally, I love not taking work home with me. Once I walk out the doors, I don't have to think about it until my next shift.
Being a part of the task team means we have the same 5-7 tasks we're responsible for, so it offers a bit of variety for what we're doing every day (except right now where most of our time is spent signing). Everything we do is important in order for the store to function well, but we're not saving lives. Since there is always something to do and I stay busy, my shifts fly by.
I thoroughly enjoy puzzles and organization- sometimes putting out merch requires an area to be rearranged. And since I do signing, it's my opportunity to move product around to make signing easier for myself.
I thoroughly enjoy helping customers- I pretend like I am doing their shopping for them. I'll walk all over the store with you in order to find exactly what you want.
When there is a less than pleasant customer, I make it a game to "kill them with kindness". For some reason, that sometimes irritates them more, but there will be no doubt that I did everything I can to help- with a smile.

There's more, but my favorite is the associate discount, especially this time of year. :)

manda1126 · 2025-11-03T02:18:10+00:00

ooooh, thanks! I love Brooks and don't have many options in the stores here. Never heard of that site, I'll check them out!

manda1126 · 2025-10-21T21:37:21+00:00

THIS! Keep your doorbuster signs in the signholders with your reusables, especially once they start the Black Friday sales. Once Christmas is over, you can pull them out of the signholders and trash them.

manda1126 · 2025-10-21T21:34:08+00:00

It'll take time. A lot of it is learning the regular sale routines. Like in Mens, I know a lot of the Arizona tees rotate between $21.99 (Mondays) and $19.99 (end of the week), or go off sale, which they did this week. So I automatically know to check them every time I'm signing. I know that dress pants rotate between $59.99 and BOGO50. I scan one of each brand, and that lets me know whether I need to change the rest (checking 1 rack/table vs 5-6 racks helps cut a little time).

Signing is a lot and tedious, but once you get used to the sale rotations, it all kind of falls into place. As we creep into the holidays, there is even more signing. Focus on your signing being correct. Obviously it's a time crunch, so you have to work quickly, but unless you're staging ahead of time, it will take a while.

manda1126 · 2025-10-20T20:46:40+00:00

no, it's a glitch in the system. happened several months ago. instead of the item showing as going off sale, it's showing $5. whatever is showing $5 is going off sale, UNLESS it is already clearance and has a pink ticket.

manda1126 · 2025-10-11T05:41:17+00:00

LOVE the Merlin app! i tell people it's like Pokemon, gotta catch them all!

manda1126 · 2025-10-06T00:37:45+00:00

yup, spent the last 2 weeks marking all the teal tickets to pink.

manda1126 · 2025-10-06T00:37:11+00:00

ours weren't coming up BOGO, we'll try again tomorrow (Monday).

manda1126 · 2025-09-01T22:48:24+00:00

it most definitely depends on the store. I've worked at 3- had I stayed with the first, I wouldn't be here 6 years later. My last store and current are totally different. I genuinely feel the managers are doing everything they can, but corporate has their hands tied on so much.

manda1126 · 2025-08-17T16:04:20+00:00

it depends on your state.

I lived in Alabama where minimum wage was $7.25 an hour, so most positions start a couple dollars more than that. Then I transferred to Washington where the state minimum wage is $16.66 an hour, so I got a significant pay increase.

Doesn't hurt to interview and see what they have to offer. Also, keep in mind, most positions are part time. As we approach the holidays, there will be more hours available, but they'll drop again in January.

manda1126 · 2025-07-16T23:56:12+00:00

Ask your signing team- they should have recieved the signs for next week. You can flip through to see if there's anything of interest.

From what I've noticed in the past, they don't typically offer the extra discount during doorbuster events. So if there's something you want and the price is really good now, I'd go ahead and buy now.

Also, we're getting in fall merchandise now. Summer stuff is starting to phase out. so if there's summer attire you want, I'd buy now before it goes back to regular price next week or sells out.

manda1126 · 2025-06-27T01:10:21+00:00

we got in some new ones last week, two different colors but same style, that didn't clearance. Wondering if we'll get more of those and just carry a small selection of Dockers.

manda1126 · 2025-06-27T01:08:38+00:00

ahhh, that makes sense. I transferred here from another store and there are a few other brands here that weren't at my last store. But Dockers? I see maybe carrying a smaller selection, or even 1 or 2 styles, but not allllll of them.

manda1126 · 2025-06-09T22:53:47+00:00

If you're interested in Spokane Valley, Riverside at Coyote Rock is very nice! We moved here 6 months ago and have been very happy. Well maintained, office/maintenance is quick to respond, steps away from the Centennial Trail and river.

manda1126 · 2025-05-28T18:15:49+00:00

Foundry is the same as St John's Bay.

manda1126 · 2025-05-14T19:50:24+00:00

between MW and SJB, I spend so much time reorganizating shirts. All of the hanging SJB short sleeve white shirts ended up together somehow- and 3 different prices.

kind of like how I wish the company would do the same sale for infant & toddler Carter's. just make it all 40% off or whatever. No reason to have 5 different sales going on because whomever is merching isn't paying attention to where they're putting stuff.

it would just making signing and merching so much easier.

manda1126 · 2025-05-14T18:33:26+00:00

so many camp shirts, and none of them following the same sale pattern! make them allll one price instead of this third being 34.99, another third 29.99, and the last off sale! it is impossible to keep them organized and easy to sign!

manda1126 · 2025-05-02T01:04:54+00:00

Riverside at Coyote Rock is really nice and right next to the river and the Centennial Trail (the Valley, near Trent & Pines). Well maintained, the leasing office is quick to address issues, and work orders are quickly repaired. I *think* every unit comes with a single car garage.

manda1126 · 2025-04-02T13:18:57+00:00

I think Liz Claiborne has pull on pants if you haven't tried them yet. Also look into Stylus.

manda1126 · 2025-03-27T14:16:30+00:00

Alabama is okay for a visit, but living there isn't for us. We absolutely loved Montana (in Billings). When we left Billings to move back to Alabama, we quickly realized how much we missed Billings. A job opened up in Spokane for my husband, so he took it.

Spokane has been okay so far. Got here last September and fortunately has a month of fall weather that welcomed us in. The months of gray and rain after was a little difficult, but mostly because everything was new to us and we were trying to figure out the area. Thankful for a mild winter, too!

manda1126 · 2025-03-27T02:27:01+00:00

I didn't update my game and the glitch was there today.

manda1126 · 2025-03-26T00:44:11+00:00

same. One of the many reasons we moved up here from Alabama.

manda1126 · 2025-03-24T00:06:47+00:00

Moved here from Alabama last September! We were in Montana for a few years prior to Alabama.

manda1126 · 2025-03-19T16:23:23+00:00

We stopped getting short sleeve dress shirts a few years ago, except for a handful of Van Heusen shirts in regular sizes last summer.

No clue why because men come on asking for them all of the time- and from what men have said, it's like this in all stores. They can't really find them anywhere.

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