Consistently takes advantage of part-time employees. Part-timers will be pressured to take on responsibilities way above their pay grade, such as training new employees for management or showing up at 3 in the morning to reset the store layout. Incorrect pay is a recurring problem as is ‘accidentally’ not being paid your commission bonuses. People above store management level have no clear concept of what actually goes on in the stores and have unrealistic expectations that can never be met. Scheduling issues mean you will often be alone in the store for hours without the ability to take a break or go to the bathroom unless you want to close the entire store (which is heavily frowned upon by upper management). Transparency about pay is non-existent and it is very likely that coworkers will have vastly different hourly wages. The work culture there dissuades you from discussing this presumably so employees don’t discover how big the gap is. Upon hiring, in my experience at least, we were promised multiple wage increases a year. Some unknown, vague changes occurred where that was no longer possible. The reasoning for this was never explained. Very little if any opportunity for advancement in the company. For an early part-time job for young people, this is probably good experience. You have to hold your own and stand up for yourself in this environment though because if given the chance, the company will take advantage of you.
