Pros
-Good starting pay, I was and continue to be the envy of my friends. I started $2 above minimum wage and for the first few years my raises were great but recently they've dwindled. -Work with your school schedule; I'd hand them my schedule and they would work with it. -If you have a good crew then your shift goes by fast and without hitches; but if it's a worthless group that can't do anything besides stand around then your work is cut out for you.
Cons
-Scheduling is horrible; there is no work-life balance unless you have a family. So, if you're single like me you're thrown on every late night shift and when asked for something else you're denied on the spot. -Shifts are run with skeleton crews; we constantly are working with two people on shift and can never get everything done. -Shift wars are common; day shift gets preferential treatment while other shifts are treated horribly by management and when asking the previous shift why something wasn't done you're given a snarky remark and told to deal with it. -Good luck getting your shift covered if you're sick; nobody will answer. I had swine flu one year and I still had to come in and would you look at that I spread it to three other people. -They're throwing more and more of a workload on the deli associates but not compensating appropriately or at least giving out the labor to put another person on for help. It's not exactly fun to bake bread while making ten sandwiches, five drinks, and you've got snacks and hot dogs beeping in your oven and nobody can help you. -oh and if you go out on disability you better be on top of that with HR because they will absolutely not hesitate to fire you without notice.