Pros
+ Discounts with other companies and vendors. + Yearly manager conference in Las Vegas. + Easy to get promoted to assistant manager or store manager.
Cons
- Unrealistic sales goals and draconian sales model that punishes employees and management for not meeting goals that are beyond their control. - No work life/personal life balance. - Management given no real control of their store or staff. - Company hit $100,000,000 in revenue during 2014 Holiday season, rewards staff with chocolate covered pretezels. - If you're making $40,000-$80,000 of revenue you're allotted 127 budget payroll hours which include your salaried hours. After you subtract your base you are left with 87 hours to schedule for your store. - HR chooses what policies they enforce but will make sure you're crucified if you ever break any of the absurd amount of arbitrary policies. - Low pay for management and hourly employees. Hourly makes $9/hr and is given the impression they will make incentive pay, with bonus structure the way it is employees will make 1% in bonus pay IF they meet their absurdly unrealistic sales goals. Management makes around $30,000-$35,000 a year which is way below national average salary for retail management. - Upper management expects way too much of store managers, will bully and reprimand you in front of staff and it boarders on abusive. District Managers will do very little and when time for Regional Managers to do visits they will crush you and make you feel like you're a subhuman child. - Conference in Las Vegas is a shallow reward for what the company expects. They could use the money spent on this to increase salaries across the board. - Unbelievable turn over rate. - Hard to hire employees, process takes 2-3 weeks and applicants usually give up and take jobs that pay more with less hoops to jump through elsewhere - Paid time off is not paid out if you cannot use it, which trust me, you will NOT be able to. - Upper management is misogynistic and male centric. Women are talked down to.
