Pros
-My co-workers are amazing! Sometimes it gets pretty hard to juggle a million tasks at once but when you juggle those tasks while laughing and getting encouragement, you feel really loved. It feels great to come to work most days. -The management at my store really cares about the people they employ. The Manager and Co-Manager really try to create a friendly environment. They feel for the employees that have been screwed over by corporate and they are very open to changing your schedule for urgent reasons.
Cons
- Despite the fact that my Managers are great people, they aren't very good at communicating new information to us. I sometimes found out about new promotions and policys over the sound system that's supposed to just inform customers. Sometimes the system says "see a store associate for more details" and, honestly, I wouldn't know anything because it was never explained even minorly. -The hours are absolutely wacked. I'm getting more hours now but I was once given only 4 hours a week for a month. Some are still in that position. My hours this week have been 9am-2pm. 5:30pm-9:30pm. 5pm-9:30pm. 12pm-6pm. I can't really plan anything in my personal life because the hours are so weird! And we only have a heads up a week before, makes it hard to keep track of when you have work too. -When I'm working, I'm typically on the floor. I usually work close and so far the most people i've had working that shift with me is three. one on the floor, one on resister, one closing manager and one person in framing. It's really really hard to recover the floor, take customers to products, and put back returns when your on resister helping out with the busy lines. I typically have a 30 or a 15 minute break but I almost never take it because theres just so much to do! -There are so many design flaws in the store. There are only two sizes of bags and the biggest one is not big enough to hold some of the medium sized merchandise in the store. The bags are also too thin and I find myself double bagging almost everything. The counters are way too small as well and the resisters are flipped into all kinds of crazy directions which causes confusion for the customers. The aisles are too small and some of the aisles aren't numbered which makes it really hard to direct customers to places. -The new Store of the Future cut some really good people. One person in particular should have gotten the new position but instead she was demoted and someone else, who didn't deserve it frankly, got the job. Whoever did the hiring process obviously didn't talk to anyone who knew their choice for the position. We all would have recommended someone else.