Pros
The job itself was very easy; shelving books alphabetically in assigned section, buying customer merchandise and running the register. That was about it. You can check out and buy books in the store for 50% off for employees which is great if you're a reader. Great benefits for a retail job!
Cons
A lot of nepotism and ignorance among management. The management and "shift supervisors" let a lot of outbursts and disrespect towards coworkers slide from employees of whom they fraternized with. They made first time employees shift leaders after four months of working there. Each and everyone of them took advantage of it; giving themselves higher discounts, paying their friends higher than usual for selling their stuff at the buy counter, abusing their authority over employees, getting people in trouble they "didn't like", etc. There HR was a joke, I had to send a complaint about a shift leader because of racist and sexist comments. They told me they would get back to me and never did. Instead, I got called into a meeting where both managers trying to shower me with intimidation and tell me to come talk to them instead if before I went to HR. But that was another problem, every time someone came and talked to them about something it either got handled then died down temporarily or got ignored and became progressively worse. It's clear this is a retail store that targets millenials. If you don't clique with the snobbish and very gossipy hippy mentality, they will most likely find ways to get of you or for you to quit. Which is why there was a revolving door for employees before I finally threw in the towel. The toxic work environment set by both managers and employees wasn't even worth the pay or the insurance.
