Vantaggi
-Discount was pretty good at 40% with the occasional 50% off -Had good ideals with giving back in your personal community and abroad -Associates were wonderful to work with -Made me grow as a manager and person -Only good thing to come from all of the stress and being miserable is that it made me ready to go back to school
Svantaggi
Where do I even start?? -NO work/life balance. Salaried managers are payed for 40 hrs, required to work 45, but most weeks worked 48-55. -Pay is abysmal for the amount of hours we work and the amount of pure CRAP we have to do. -Deadlines constantly were unattainable to reach without the store looking sub-par and that was unacceptable -Customers are to be number 1 priority(which is how it should be) but then tasks don't get completed which then falls on salaried managers. This then makes you work well past 50 hours. -One week I worked 72 hours because corporate was coming and then HATED how we had our store set up and made us change it. -Corporate visits are beyond stressful. They talk down to everyone and act like they know best and that we don't know how to run our own store that we are in 50+ hours a week unlike them who visit once every 5 months, if they even visit. -Each district has 2 District Managers who were always contradicting each other and speaking to management like the were 5 years old. -If you are involved in floorsets/markdowns, be prepared to work overnight with 12+ hours under your belt -They preach that they are about promoting from within but I know of MULTIPLE instances when an opportunity arose to move up and knew of several ASMs interested in taking the positions but they ALWAYS hired from outside of the company and the ASMs I knew who were beyond ready to move up where told they were not ready even when they had the support of their current Store Manager
