Autonomous retail. Better in image than reality.
Pros
•Excellent health, dental, vision benefits. •Good commuter benefits (might be regional?) •Black Friday is a paid holiday •Paid trip to Seattle HQ for initial management training. •Great product •Co workers are (mostly) genuinely good people •Good annual bonus incentive pay •Paid sick time company wide regardless of state laws (I believe) •Paid all retail staff a month’s wage during initial covid closures •Occasional free snacks/food on busy work weekends
Cons
•Have to fight for time/weekends off - Instead of one typical “holiday blackout season” there 3 or 4 which makes time off requests difficult for two weeks around basically every major holiday. •Low PTO accumulation rate till you work for the company for at leas 5 years. •Like most retail, constantly under staffed to save payroll. •Pays under retail average - had to take a pay cut to work here. After a year of exceeding my KPI I was “rewarded” with a .80 raise •Hourly paid but mgmt will still text you at home with questions/schedule changes which ultimately brings a resting/recovering mind back to a stressed working mind. •Poses as a higher purposed co-op but the company is ultimately a money-making business like any other retailer. •Typical retail pettiness amongst staff •Typical retail late work hours •While the capacity is there, little effort to create a balanced or set schedule for mgmt team. •Very, very little product training with no investment by HQ to implement product specific training programs.