Pros
I worked with some really great people. There were some good avenues for advancement. This company allows you to be very mobile; you can move anywhere in the country fairly easily. The compensation at the sales level is very attractive for the amount of effort needed.
Cons
The opportunities to move up are filled with hurdles. From a sales position you have to move up to an assistant manager and then store manager to even be considered for positions outside of retail. There is no incentive to move up to management positions in retail. The pay is equal or drastically less if you were actually good at sales and in most cases you have to relocate or commute to a store much farther away in order to take a management position. Yearly raises were only enough to cover inflation and commission was whittled away every year that I was there. When I started with Verizon I could stand behind the knowledge that the products and services were genuinely improving peoples lives in some way. I left feeling like I was forced to take advantage of people just to get a paycheck less than what I used to make honestly.
