It's all about National Vision and not about their employees
Pros
They will hire someone with zero experience and teach them a lot about optics. The definitely encourage you to become ABO and NCLE Certified and promote within. They will send you to Georgia to have extensive training and to help you coach your team to be more effective.
Cons
Very Sales Oriented business. You have a daily sales and units (eyeglasses) goal that must be achieved and or exceeded. On top of your budgets, there are several indicators that you much achieve and exceed daily. Failure to do so will result in disciplinary action against you. They have a no fault absentee policy. If you miss work, regardless if you have a dr's note or not, it's an occurrence and they will write you up for it. A salaried manager is not a salaried manager. Typically when one is a salaried manager, they can work 10 hours or 100 hours and get paid the same. At National Vision, if you work 100 hours, you get paid for 40 hours, if you work 32 hours, and you don't have PTO or vacation, you get paid for 32 hours. Everything is to benefit them. As a manager, you are also required to work 45 hours per week min. This must be worked as 9 hour days. The Vision Centers inside Walmart does not have a break room There is no refrigerator, no microwave, no break room. You can either use Walmart's breakroom, or go out and buy lunch every day. You are only as good as you were yesterday. If you were producing amazing numbers in your store, and then start to have poor numbers, you will be written up. Again, this company is very numbers driven. When you go to Georgia for training, you will be working from 8am - 1am. You will not sleep, and again, are only being paid for your salary and not a penny more. When traveling, driving or flying on a Sunday is not considered extra time, because you are salary, you still get paid the same. Salaried Managers only get 1 Saturday off a month and are required to Close 2 nights a week. You can never take the last Saturday of the month off. This company is not a family friendly company. You rarely get two days off in a row. When first hired as a Salaried Manager, I was to work 40 hours a week. Beginning January 1, 2014, all Salaried Managers are required to work 45 hour weeks, which in turn was a $2.00 per hour pay cut. You have to make your schedules a month at a time and submit them to your District Manager for approval. There's a lot of micro management.