Hi. I worked at Kohl's on a Seasonal Position. I only wanted to work stocking and not cashier or dealing with the phone. During my interview, the lady asked if I could hear the PA, and I said it depends/not really--meaning it would be mixed what I would get, so it's not really a good idea to depend on me for hearing things over PA. I think this is kind of a stupid question because that's like saying they want someone who can hear. Problem is, they depend a lot on the PA for calling different departments and blah blah on prices and blah blah. I was once left alone in the seasonal, but I wouldn't pick the phone. This girl would go all around finding me. This was only one day, but it was stupid how they manage and handle things.
Anyway, so I work and blah blah. The job was so f-cking boring after awhile. All the time, I was with this woman. I would do the job fast and have nothing to do sometimes. I felt she wasn't giving me more responsibilities because of my hearing loss, but I am not really sure. Also, I asked the person that hired me if I could have a permanent position, but she said, "Not right now, but we will contact you in the Summer for Back-To-School." This, to me, sounds like she said "No, because you don't take more responsibilies because of your hearing loss. Let me tell you, they prefer to hire overnight people or people who work in customer service or cashier because that's like Top Priority for them. I will tell you that I had to take some of the stuff in Recovery room (merchandises to be taken back from customers who return them). That room sometimes was full all day from other departments. Looks to me that they needed more people doing this type of "crappy" work than cashier, overnight or Customer Service. Oh, and they never called me back.
I don't know, but I refuse to apply again with them. I didn't really like their ways of dealing. It doesn't look like they have much jobs for deaf people. I can understand bonkiefry. I hate Kohl's for hiring deaf people, but I do like their clothes sometimes. Only when they are on sale he he he. I rarely go there anyway because many times their clothes are overpriced.
Bonkiefry, please don't give up for people like us. They deserve to listen to us and penalized or whatever for giving us hell.
