Pros
* Great discounts on Luxury sunglasses (including annual eyewear certificates and earning free pairs + contests for luxury products). * Lots of e-learning content to develop great product knowledge * Easy to get promoted if you're a hard worker * An easier type of retail job
Cons
* Lack of follow-up development once you're on the path to management (performance reviews are very generic with no individual development plan to support how you can improve in the next year). * Expected to stand for 8+ hours a day, no sitting/leaning, etc. No cell-phones. * Managers are forced to live their lives based on associates, if your team calls out you rarely have staffing to call in people and are expected to cover that shift if you cannot find someone to fill it. Your 8 hour days can turn into 8-12 hrs very quick in some locations. * Managers are the only full-time staff, everyone else is casual part time (0-19 hrs) and you only get one spot per store for a part-timer (up to 30 hrs). * Majority of stores get between 80-84 hours to staff for an entire week which means you are alone 90% of the time except weekends * In department store or host environments like Macys or Cabela's there is zero way to secure the store to take breaks, product is always out and the host stores management will not help you take a 30 or even a quick bathroom break. So you risk having large thefts with product that is avg $250-600. * Company resets expectations half way into the year after changing them in Q1. We have over 20 sheets of paper to fill out each week and nobody from upper management reads it. It just goes in a box and there is no follow-up.