Pros
If you already have worked in a record store this is a great way to feel like you still work in a record store.
Cons
Work has been so segmented due to years of justifying the massive workforce at their old location, so jobs now are piecemeal where you're often doing 1/2 of something someone else will finish. Much of the management is devoted to segmenting and overseeing these tasks, so the feeling of bloat exists at the same time as the feeling of a work drought. This is a byproduct of huge mismanagement top to bottom, where it feels like supervisors are inventing work for people they don't really believe or understand the logic of. Most section runners have left causing a Queenless Beehive scenario where you can't get any straight answers how anything works, but there's a lot of superstition, and countless stories about how some other employee tried to change things but couldn't. Attempting to alter procedures triggers a "You Think You're Better Than Me?" response from the remaining senior staff, who at this point are incredibly defensive, living squarely under the poverty line, and think they could lose their job at any minute. There are a constant stream of workers who are given 10-20 hrs a week as a cashier and you are led to believe that if you can't do the thing they want, that anybody else could be swapped out for you. No sense of security even from people that have worked there for 15 years. Management recently accepted several million dollars in PPP loans and also did a GoFundMe, none of that trickled down to the workers causing a massive sense of distrust. Bringing all this up to anyone causes a very petty trigger effect that can effect you in ways ranging from randomly being assigned busywork by passive aggressive middle managers, to being moved out of your section with no feedback. One of the lines they give people is "this is a great job if you need to leave for touring with your band" but there a hundreds of old Amoeba employees with bands who got fired who would beg to differ. They point to the members of staff who are in bands as proof that they're all living hand to mouth but those staff members are old friends who are not given the flexibility of actual normal employees. No advancement possible, and they treat you like you're naive for even thinking that's a possibility, despite dangling it in front of everyone. Many senior members of staff continually walk around asking you about controversial topics of the day, and there is no HR department to stop them. Lots of diversity but people of color do not advance beyond Cashier anymore.