Pros
Corporate seems like they care, they try to do things to make the job more positive. They very much seem involved in trying to get you to move up (I personally don't know about the corporate level but I came from Replenishment and worked my way up to Framing Manager). Framing is very fun and creative, I loved the hands on experience and getting to see all different kinds of art. You really do feel like an expert in your field and I was proud of what I was doing. Their archival techniques were very good for the artwork and museum quality (if you were trained right). In framing it was kind of nice to be able to have some distance away from customers. You have your own area that you can't stay in but it was nice to go back there and just work on your framing projects. Because of everything I had to do the position looked great on my resume.
Cons
Oh boy. I was in charge of a framing team but because there were managers who kept on quitting I had to help out more and more with the store. I was either a good framing manager or a good store manager. It's hard to hire for framing because it's so detail oriented and people can really mess up artwork if you hire wrong but also no one knows about framing so no one applies for it. So if there is a vacancy it's rough and it takes a long time to hire someone (and train them). Corporate would keep coming in and telling us to do more and more and we didn't have enough hours to do everything they made us responsible for. Online ordering was also added and managers (at least when I left) were in charge of fulfilling them instead of hiring more people. I was paid NOTHING, it's retail so it sucks but when I tell people in office jobs everything I had to do they tell me it's crazy how little I was paid for everything I had to do. Corporate can tell us we are appreciated but at the end of the day managers and associates in the stores actually have to face customers who complain about the lack of people in the stores and things we can't control and we are the ones who are paid nothing. I loved framing, loved the artistry, the art itself, and the people I helped out and worked with but when I had another opportunity I took it and didn't look back. Living in poverty for corporate profit is not worth it.