Sketchy hiring -- Some of the people I've seen hired look as if they were picked up off the streets. Naturally, there's a high turn over rate.
Few Hours for New Hires -- Enjoy your $52 paycheck, newbie.
Part-time managers loaded down with full-time hours -- 40+ hour work weeks are to be expected. My record was 57 hours.
Benefits are a total joke -- Health and dental packages are expensive and bottom of the barrel. 401k only offered to store managers and up.
Training sucks -- Orientation consists of watching a cheaply produced series of training videos and being to told memorize a booklet full of rules and regulations.
Cliquishness - It's crew members vs. management, crew member vs. crew member, and assistant managers vs co-managers vs. store managers vs. area supervisors. You have to watch your back and be very selective about who you buddy up with, because it's a given that *someone* is going to get *someone* fired. Customers are in on the game as well -- depending on the reputation of the store you work at, the customers are more than willing to have you canned for the slightest of perceived slights. Every store has a customer hotline displayed that goes directly to the area supervisor for the express purpose of narcing on "bad" employees. One customer complaint will have him breathing down your neck in a flash.
