Pros
50% discount on clothes, free lunches on Thursday, and happy hours once or twice a week with free beer. Unfortunately these are just things used to mask the pay structure and the extremely contrasting difference between hourly and salary employees. If you're lucky enough to have went to school with one of the owners or are friends with someone already in a managerial position you'll love working here. Salary employees make a vast amount more and receive additional benefits like double the amount of vacation, extended lunches, shorter days, brand new equipment, etc. This isn't conjecture either almost everyones salary/hourly pay is known here due to a rampant amount of gossip and lack of confidentiality. Which is compounded by HRs inability to enforce anything with any sort of consistency. That being said it's a very drug friendly place (wether or not that is a pro or con is up to you) On any given day you can find people going to their cars to smoke weed before, during, and after work. It's often not even attempted to hide. People will sometimes do it directly outside the building HR is located in. This can be anyone from the owner to people from the warehouse. So I suppose that's the one instance of all the employees being treated equal. Every once in a while the managers will tell their teams not to do it but it's never enforced so whats the point.
Cons
There's little room for growth here. There will be plenty of promises upon hiring but in reality most of the departments have few higher positions from your initial hire. The few opportunities that do open up occasionally are usually filled on a "who's friends with who" basis rather than on merit or experience. That being said if you're in good with someone from senior management you'll have no problem getting promoted. Definitely not recommended for anyone hoping to work hard and move up without constantly playing politics. There is a vast distinction between salary and hourly positions as well. Our department was using equipment that was several years old and unreliable but were denied upgrades while at the same time other departments and new hires were given top of the line brand new equipment. If you're hourly you'll also get the brunt of most of the extra work when it comes to new projects or holidays. With all the salary employees rushing to get done early for the holidays or take an extended weekend it usually leaves the hourly employees picking up the slack. While we do get paid OT does that make up for a week of 11+ hour days leading all the way up to Christmas Eve. Or coming in on the weekends when everyone else is enjoying a nice 3 day weekend. The laid back party vibe is nice initially but quickly wears thin. When you're waiting for images or to finish something and everyone is outside having a beer or smoking because it's Friday it can get frustrating. Of course trying to deal with people who are obviously under the influence of alcohol or drugs can be equally frustrating. What do in their free time is their own business but when I go to leave at the end of the day I shouldn't have to walk through a circle of people passing a blunt around. Those examples would be where most people would think "Why dont you contact HR" That in itself is a whole other issue. There's little that ever gets accomplished going to them other than being told to more or less "suck it up" I wouldn't even suggest "anonymously" complaining about issues because theres a 99% chance whoever you complain about will find out. This will often lead to issues just be shrugged off or not reported due to fear of retaliation or drama. There's also more value on hiring less experienced and/or unqualified employees who will work for less than paying more for qualified experienced hires.