Pros
- Flexible schedule - Fun co-workers - Opportunities to move up - Overall, a fairly standard retail job, not bad but not great either - a decent place to work while looking for a career, but I wouldnt want to work here (or anywhere in retail) long-term
Cons
- Flexible schedule means working a lot of weekends and long stretches with no days off - Middle management (RVPs and DMs) tend to micro manage, Store Managers are essentially puppets with no real say regarding the direction of the store - Constantly changing layouts on a whim per the DM / RVP and then scrambling to change them back when Corporate finds out - Semi-frequent "all hands on deck" situations to prepare for "surprise" RVP visits, usually with 2 to 3 days notice, often resulting in very little payroll for the end of the month - Inability / unwillingness to get rid of bad employees - Stresses customer service but limits payroll to the point where multiple departments will not be staffed for multiple hours a day, most of the week. - Managers can expect to work 60 - 70 hour weeks during November and December with no overtime - High turnover; lots of call outs and no shows *Most of these issues seem to come with the territory of working retail