Unreadable expectations, absolutely zero work life balance, if your a salaried manager resolve to having no time with your family, dicks is about the money, no family values at all, most GMs (not all) are (how can I say this nicely) less than desirable. Some are downright childish. They tell you customer focus, but finish your tasks, if you don’t finish your tasks because of customer service, they tell you don’t make excuses, no tasking on weekends but that’s just what they say the expectation is task on the weekends. Did I mention there is no work life balance? You’ll work 60-70 hours a week if your salary. The GMs hold everyone accountable but themselves, they burn out the good associates, oh and get ready for everyone’s hours to be cut and I mean to the bare bones minimum. ASMs are forced to close with 3 associates, one at the register hopefully one in footwear and the other to run around everywhere else while the ASM handles the store operations. I could go on for hours. Before you apply here walk around the store and ask the associates how it is and ask them to be honest. Oh and $10 hr will be the max you’ll be paid and you’ll get at best a 2% raise after a year if your full time. But then at review time they will say no money in the budget we won’t be giving raises this year. You can go just about to any other retailer and make better money and have a better work life balance. While Corp employees are enjoying thanksgiving dinner with their families you’ll be working an extremely long shift on thanksgiving and Black Friday, I literally saw an associate work a full 24 hr shift just so he could make a decent wage and have a decent paycheck, and I am not exaggerating a full 24 hours straight. I am not trying to bash the company either, I am just being honest about the things that go on. And give you the best advice I can. If you want to make $9 an hour and work 15 hours a week you’ll probably enjoy it!
