Pros
Friendly management and co-workers, clean environment, full-time benefits, and flexible hours if you go to school or have an important responsibility.
Cons
They work you so hard you start to understand what the terms 'wage slavery' and 'American sweat shop' mean. I've been working at a recently opened Savers for about a month now, and the amount of work expected of each production employee (the employees responsible for sorting through donated items and goods from the daily delivery trucks and getting them from the back room to the sales floor) is astronomical. I could understand if they paid you like 15-20 dollars an hour for the amount of work they want a 1st shift production employee to do each day, but the pay rate is minimum wage. I feel that for a non-profit who stresses good deeds, they are clearly abusing their own employees at the sake of offering good deals and making the most profit possible for local management, district managers, and higher up executives. Savers needs to check how they are treating their employees, because a friendly attitude from management and kind words does not excuse the harsh load of work a single employee is expected to carry out daily. I am actively pursuing a better paying job and do not plan on staying around for much longer. But I certainly will stick it out until something better comes along. This is not just my opinion, lol almost every production employee I talked to (about a dozen) told me they hated their job at Savers and many are actively seeking better employment. The turnover rate is absurd and most of the employees view it as 'liberation' when they find a better job and are able to quit. I can't imagine this company will continue growing and profiting if they overwork and underpay their employees like this. It is uncalled for. Granted, it is a much nicer working environment than say your typical warehouse job through a temp agency. But expect to work non-stop all day, no slow times! Oh yeah they expect daily overtime, usually like a half hours worth, which they did not say anything about in the interview. Makes me think what the true motives are behind this company, benefiting the local community or profiting for upper level management?