Pros
Discount on clothes is great (40% off regular-price, an additional 20% off clearance); great group of people to work with---no cattiness (not in any of the 3 stores I've worked for); wonderful management training program with great incentives---trains you to not only be a maurices manager, but to take those things learned on to new places; company rewards and recognizes associate performance consistently; flexible schedule
Cons
If there is one thing I could change about this company: get rid of the individual sales goals! Telling us we need to work together as a team to meet our goals, and then giving us individual goals to meet is not fair. We are not paid commission, so we should not have to act like we are commissioned sales associates. It IS possible to continue to offer the level of customer service we have while doing team selling instead of individual selling. Also, as a manager, it is extremely hard to meet a certain percentage of individual sales plus do all of the management tasks on top of that (ie: when you work 38 of the 164 hours allotted, you are responsible for that percentage of store sales---23%---which is a LOT of sales to make, plus everything else that has to be done). There are also not enough payroll hours to get all the tasking done (ie: 9 hours for a floorset is not enough!). The company says "Focus on customer service 100%", but then expects you to do floorsets, reset tables, process freight, complete markdowns, etc while the store is open, because there is no such thing as non-productivity hours given here.
