Only two salaried managers in each store. Low volume stores run on extremely low payroll. Resets come in all at once. I was in a low volume store so I did majority of them myself. Tons of hours for salaried management. You constantly do the same thing over and over. Constant remerchandising and condensing. You wil phyiscally move a one dollar item to 12 different locations before you sell it for 90% off. No bench so you just run short throughout the district because of constant store openings, relos, etc. Did three new stores in a year, and worked 7 days a week, 12 hour days for 6 straight weeks for each one of them. So much for not working on Sundays. Then right into Christmas where you do 6 days a week with half of them being 15 hour days. Then right into inventory where you do 3 more weeks of 6 days/wk with three closes. Don't worry though, you get a generous 4 day weekend in Feb. to pay you back for working over 300 days the previous year. Constant overpromising to employees and underdelivering. Full day of everyone's time is spent on ordering. Yes, you look at each and every product in the entire store and manually decide if it needs to be ordered or not. Oh yea, company has given hourlys a $1 hr raise each year for 5 straight years! Pretty cool, huh? Until you have to RIFF a tenured full timer each year to pay for the raises. Also, there is no budget in your payroll to pay for things like holidays. Salaried management payroll comes out of your weekly budget. Consistently asked to schedule payroll $'s that are less than mgmt pay and min. hrs for your fulltimers combined. payroll includes you, your co manager, assistant manager, hourly associates making $15 an hour, anyone on vac or sick, etc. Having a day for ordering, day for truck, over 100 hours in resets each week, 8 pallets of sendout merchandise to set, and cashiers and 2 service depts that are required to have open to close coverage....you get the picture.
