Pros
The people. That's about it. I was with the company for 5 years and I used to Love my job. However, in just the past year so much has changed that I hated going into work each day.
Cons
Sub-par benefits. The company's biggest selling point is a good work life balance which is a lie. Corporate wants trucks processed and on the floor in 12 hours or less yet you don't have the payroll to accomplish this. Pushing customer engagement. They want you to have employees engaging with customers on the sales floor yet you can't afford to have more than 1 supervisor and 1 associate scheduled at a time. Theses and a multitude of other issues make it impossible for a store manager to have a life outside of work. Corporate says they don't want you working more than 41 hours a week yet when your average pay in your store is $12 an hour and they only give you $1600.00 for payroll, they force you to be in the store in order to get things done and stay within payroll budget. District Managers are no help. Most of them have never even been a store manager and are clueless to what Store Managers actually have to do in their stores along with very little knowledge of operations. Once you make it to Store Manager there are no changes of further promotions unless you fit a certain type. Poor communication from Upper Management When we came back from Covid they took away all of our ways to show our employees appreciation. Now they think writing something on a card and putting it on a bulletin board in a breakroom that most never go in to is sufficient. Mental & emotional Stress