Pros
- generally good coworkers, managers at certain locations can be genuinely excellent which vastly improves the employee experience. Never work for bad managers anywhere - generally good customers with a handful of clowns, karens, and tweakers - union benefits such as healthcare, pay on most holidays, and some time off
Kontras
- incompetent/malevolent upper management who are wholly disinterested in employee welfare (understaffing stores all the time - especially in cashiering, cashiers not allowed to sit down, many other nitpicky bs rules which are sometimes ignored by local stores) - predatory/deceitful pricing practices i.e. buy multiples of 4 to get a discount thereby earning more money than they would through simply giving 25-50% off on the individual item, big yellow tags saying 20 cents off - this is actually a 4% discount on a particular item, etc. - very low pay, barely above minimum wage for anyone who hasn't been with the company more than several years or who is not management. - unpaid lunches. Employees should be paid when they are at work no one is here for fun