Vantaggi
Steady amount of work. I'm very lucky in that I work for a good store manager with a strong work ethic. The staff is hard working, and they are very much like family--which is good, because I see each of them roughly 10x more time in a week than I see my own family.
Svantaggi
Holiday and safety bonuses, one of the very nice things about working here, were done away with a few years back for salaried associates. We were given personal days to use as vacation time instead. Which is all well and good, until you work in a store where the MoD staff has a lot of seniority, and you have to try to schedule roughly 22 weeks of vacation among the 4 MoD's. It is difficult to get time off. We are paid on a 45 hour scale, but are expected to be scheduled 50 hours? Until a conversation with my boss, turn and burn shifts (close one night, open next morning) were normal--sometimes twice a week. In my position, there is very little opportunity for advancement. Bonus structure can be vague and nebulous...a couple of years ago, we went the entire year not knowing what the bonus structure was. And since then, there is very little you can do to impact your own personal bonus, since district/region goals account for up to 100% of benchmarks.