Workplace quality and morale degraded quickly
Pros
- great coworkers - fun if you are not actively looking to advance in the company - access to discounts and pro-deals
Cons
The motto used to be "People over Profit" and since upper leadership has been bleeding money, they have sacrificed so many positive initiatives in the quest to return to profitability. Many retail employees got hours cut drastically without explanation, union busting, store managers who lack basic communication skills, shutting down opportunities to increase access to the outdoors (like rental departments). If you want to advance or develop into leadership roles you must have completely open availability and abandon all critical thinking- making it nearly impossible to have a second job- but they do not pay enough to afford cost of living on a single income. All stemming from lack of profitability but then you turn and see what money does get poured into- huge campaigns for poorly fitting shoes, overproduction of underselling e-bikes, brand trips for influencers (even though staff no longer get to partake in training trips) and ineffective ad campaigns. But fear not-if you exceed all your quarter goals and blow the credit-card application quota out of the water you WILL get a pizza party!