Vantaggi
As GM you still can hire your own staff without interference. Thus you can surround yourself with cool people at the store level. If you get a good GM it is easy for a great team member to move up. However, GM's have to juggle many grenades to move up and out of a store. Base pay for a GM is ok as long as you managing a hub store or one that does over 35k a week.
Svantaggi
Micro. Management. GM's are becoming just another keyholder, only with crazy amounts of responsibility. Absolutely no appreciation for what a GM does from upper management....none. If you hit sales target 27 out of 28 days the one day you're guaranteed to hear from your DL is that one day you missed target. CDL is a sick joke. And the GM bonus plan is laughably bad.