Inefficiency At Its Finest, All While Promoting Less Than Mediocrity
Pros
Other individuals stuck in the full time hours, but part time employment position bonded over our mutual company hatred. Friendships with employees who stick around longer than three months There are always closing shifts available due to the unreasonably tolerant call-out policy Time off is guaranteed for holidays if you ask off a year in advance There are always shifts available on holidays due to the unreasonably tolerant call out policy 45 minute lunches
Cons
Compensation is well below industry average. No matter what your experience is, expect to start out somewhere VERY close to minimum wage and be expected to be thankful for it. Time off is ridiculously hard to get, better ask off at least 6 months in advance to beat out preferential treatment for any teen mom or full time employee If you are unfortunate enough to have to work a holiday, expect the day to be even worse when two or three part time high schoolers call out simply because they didn't get the day off as well 45 minute lunches for staff while management takes over an hour to hour and a half Sink or swim training on everything, as a part time employee (working full time hours) I found myself training people a few months newer than me, rather than the managers actually doing their jobs A majority of fulll time employees at my specific store had been employed for 15+ years and could still not seem to perform job duties or follow company policy Supervisors who want to be managers are the norm, this comes with ego and all The store discount is laughable, 10% barely covers anything over state tax, and then you are expected to be grateful when the quarterly 20% discount day comes around Employee theft is almost more common than theft from cuustomers, but since most stores do not employ loss prevention in a scrooge-like manner for corporate to save a few bucks, it is up to the associates to prevent or report it You can literally have a supervisor scream obscenities at you over the headset and HR will still not get involved Do not ever expect a promotion if you are more than competent at your position, you will remain whatever you started out as, while others get promoted because "they aren't useful enough to be anything else." - I still don't understand this logic Cashiers are supposed to be only cashiers while floor associates are only to be called up during very desperate times, this is ignored and tasks do not get accomplished for it You have to be caught redhanded for theft before being fired is even an option on the table When asking for a raise you pretty much need to save a life for anything you say to not be replied to with "but that is part of your job" Yearly raises come as a part of your yearly review, do not expect to break the next dollar marker for 5 years if you're lucky Supervisors are required to work one full weekend a month, but this gets overlooked and the full time employees begin to forget how hard it is to close a saturday night, and develop unrealistic expectations Pushing credit cards is the top priority of corporate and management, nothing else you do matters as much as that