Pros
For being retail, we work typical 8-4 work days, easy to get time off for family issues, enjoy working with fellow DMs
Cons
Upper management doesn't care about what you're really doing, just how can you make their numbers look good. Even if that means that the store is dirty and sales are down, as long as you can increase sales in whatever the current focus catagory is and report a high cleaniless score on your report. Also, taking pictures and adding "fuzz" numbers for your boss so he can forward it up to his boss goes a long way, but real work goes unnoticed. Corporate is always trying to "sell us" on products and ideas that we know are not going to work. Most new items that hype up end up failing (90%) and as soon as something doesn't work, they move on to the next item and force you to sell that to the stores. It seems like they're making money by selling product to the franchisees and the DMs are asked to be salesmen instead of improving the stores profitability.