Pros
- Interesting Merchandise. - Co-workers are decent hard-working people
Cons
- Compensation is embarrassingly low when compared to similar work elsewhere. - Everyone that is not management is part-time, 20 hours/week firm. - Because of part-time status you will be unqualified to receive any benefits aside from a paltry bonus (Approx. $100.00) if your store even makes its sales goals and a 25% employee discount (Which you can't really use because of low compensation). NO retirement, NO health benefits, NO PTO. (Despite a "employee benefits poster" located in-store that states otherwise) It's laughably insulting. - The store runs on a thin payroll--2 to 3 employees at most at a given time when the store is open. This leads to employee burnout; a messy, disastrous store, and low morale. Turnover is high and almost everyone has to take a second/third job to stay afloat. - Executives/Regionals from HQ push Axonify--an in-house training system. Everything is a high priority so on top of conditioning your three zones, cleaning bathrooms, conditioning other departments that are falling behind that night, bringing in carts, doing returns, and performing cashier/customer service; you have to spend 30-45 minutes that you don't have in a training module that teaches you the proper method of climbing up a ladder to retrieve merchandise. For those of you doing research on At Home as a potential employer; I'd look elsewhere. I know people working fast food that are paid more per hour than I and they can reach 35 hours or more without a problem. I have worked in many places in retail and restaurant--At Home is by-far the lowest paying and most unsatisfying position I have ever held.
