Pros
Lots of freedom in visual positions! Great schedule! Weekly pay! At a store level, they know how to make money, and thats what matters at the end of the day. HOW they do so, and how the visual team is treated, is another story. If you're really good at not taking work home with you, this is the job for you. The parts you get to do are super fun, but the minute I started letting things get to me, I was miserable. It's easier for everyone if you keep your head down until you need to stand up for yourself/your team (you WILL have to, a lot), and just get your work done to the best of your ability. I would recommend this job to someone who is good at just letting things go, and leaving it in the building as soon as you clock out - if you can then the schedule, freedom, and weekly pay is worth it.
Cons
Managers - especially Store Managers - are really only focused on the wellbeing of the sales team. This goes all the way up honestly - the visual & logistics team (brand team) didn't even receive bonuses with the sales team until recently - as if ordering, stocking, building, moving, and merchandising furniture isn't on par with ..... talking about and selling it - let alone how much these things help everything sell. When they started offering bonuses to us, they weren't as much as the sale's team, and then when they FINALLY matched it, they had to lower the sales team's bonus on order to do so, which caused a bigger rift between sales and brand. Getting the sales team to clean up after themselves so you can focus on your own projects is also really difficult. I fought tooth and nail to implement a cleaning checklist that I later found out already existed. My store manager had looked me dead in my eyes and told me he had never heard of "DTLs" as the company calls them, aka "standardizing". Watching my manager whisper what it was to him was infuriating, and I found the corporate guides immediately accessible as soon as the conversation was done. The fact that I had to go not only through my own manager, but my store manager as well, to find a checklist that already existed so that I could get the sales team to do their literal jobs is frankly unacceptable. Managers walk around "overseeing" but really just chatting. Supervisors, who are under managers, are the ones doing the actual managing. They are the ones who do all of the communication with sales associates even - managers are not present for reviews. The amount of times Visual was pulled from their own projects to support the sales team, when the sales managers were just walking around, was insane. Then they'd come after the visual team because the back was messy or projects weren't done.