Pros
If you like talking sports to strangers, Lids is a good place to work. Decent discount on products. Hard to find anything else nice to say.
Cons
All politics. DMs have no feel for how stores are ran on a day to day basis. They rarely check in on under performing stores. Only store managers bonus off of embroidery and locate sales. FT assistants only bonus on budget, so there is no real incentive for anyone but the SM to push emb sales. Yet to meet a single manager who sticks up for their employees. Everyone under SM is prone to get thrown under the bus. They tell you that, in order to be promoted, it's all based on the scorecard, but it's all based on who you know, not what you know. Turnover is horrendous. Pay is horrible for the responsibilities you have as an assistant . They undervalue employees. There is no direct communication to DMs. No training on anything. It's all learn it yourself, mostly because those in charge are clueless. Very far behind on technological advancements. You have to count everything by hand, where majority of other companys use scanners and computers. The warehouse and inventory planning teams have no clue what is actually in a store and over saturate product. Weekly emails to DMs are useless. Everything's micromanaged.
