Pros
When I first started with Payless two years ago, I loved it. I had a great manager with a competent staff, and it never felt like "work" to me.
Cons
In a year and a half, a worked my way from part-time employee to store manager. While I have not been with the company that long, I have my degree and I know my stuff when it comes to my job. However, my salary is very poor, and my social life is non-existant. There have been nights when I stayed until 1:30 AM to get out all my shipment, mornings I came in at 4am to prepare for audits, and weeks I've worked over 60 hours. I had the most wonderful DM who was so helpful, but she was forced to quit once our new DRO started harassing her and telling her she as essentially a failure. Every day there's something new to stress about: a random audit, a double shift, and unannounced visit where you're torn a new one. No store is perfect, even when we try to by. Too many of the people in upper management have never ran a store; they don't realize that perfect service and running 70 cases of shipment our before Friday close and perfecting your training and paperwork is impossible with the payroll they've given us. Nothing is ever good enough for upper management. My entire staff is comprised of new people, save my assistant manager who will not work and HR will not let me fire. There aren't enough hours in a day to do everything they ask of us. They don't even CARE about the service or making the customer happy - they only REALLY care about making money. No improvement is ever good enough. It's an impossible company to succeed in.