Pros
It is a paying job. There are health benefits. They match 401K.
Cons
There is no consideration for the employees. The dollar is the bottom line. The sales goals are unobtainable. The pressure is too much. I don't know how much longer the company can keep their experienced managers. We are all doing everything to please the DM, but there is no making them happy. We just can't make people buy more paint in a down economy. Anything less than budget, which is a twelve percent increase in sales over the previous year, is considered failure accompanied with a bad appraisal. A ten percent increase is still just failure. I am making the company more profit that last year, but it is never enough. Before this bad economy they "appreciated" my hard work enough to send me on a free trip as a reward. I was a golden boy for a year or two. But as soon as houses stopped being built, my "methods" as well as all the other management qualities started getting appraised as unsatisfactory. I was a good manager in their earlier appraisals. I didn't change my methods, but because I do not meet their bottom line in dollars, I have a different kind of rating than I did before.