Pros
- The money was decent for being a retail job. - Management will work with employees in switching departments or picking up extra hours. - Profit sharing was awesome (before it was changed).
Kontras
- Benefits, while available to everyone (even part timers), are *very* expensive. - Head cashiers are considered management only when needed--and never when it will benefit them. - Corporate is WAY too focused on how people look (no facial hair? really?). - Corporate does not care about the small stores--they continually get old, used equipment when the other stores are getting brand new equipment that functions properly, crappy management is punished by being sent to small stores (thus punishing the employees by forcing them to put up with bad management), good managers are moved against their will. - Employees are forced to do stupid, embarrassing chants, greetings, and goodbyes to guests. - Little to no training on products--everything we learned was from experience, rather than actual training. Product training is optional. - Raises are 10 cents every 6 months, based on a test you take on your knowledge of obscure store policies, rather than actual merit. Small stores are unfairly punished because the policies aren't/can't be used (I had a question about where ours *lunch boxes* were supposed to be kept, which I couldn't answer properly because of our store set up). - Employees are punished or fired for the tiniest infractions--one manager missed the plane to seminars because his schedule was wrong and was immediately terminated, and another was punished by the new CEO because said CEO *thought* that he was sleeping when he was taking notes during a meeting. - Corporate is more worried about employee theft than customer theft and constantly spies on the employees via the store's security cameras.