Pros
The customers. They're the best part of working here - they're so happy to find a place where they feel accepted, and just one positive interaction is enough to turn your entire day around.
Cons
Lack of living wage. $14.25 an hour is not enough to survive on in NYC, LA, and Portland, the cities where Wildfang has retail stores. Lack of benefits. I worked as a full-time employee and Wildfang only began offering benefits just before I left my position there. Even then, it would have required $75 to be taken out of every paycheck, an untenable solution for someone making $14.25 an hour in Los Angeles. Not a single employee was able to afford to do it, and it very much felt like the company's attempt to check a box without actually putting their money where their mouth was. Toxic environment. The retail location where I worked fostered an environment of favoritism, divisiveness, bullying, and resentment. During the interview process, I had been promised opportunities to explore avenues of retail beyond sales, but found that in practice I was sidelined at every turn for employees preferred by management. I am not the only of my co-workers to experience this, although I'm lucky not to have been subjected to the bullying of management and these preferred employees that I witnessed some of my co-workers go through. Wildfang may preach feminist values as a sales pitch, but it fails to extend these values to its employees.