Vantaggi
I like working at Kmart. I like everything about the job from clock in to clock out every day that I work. I like helping customers. I like stocking shelves. I know it's weird but I actually do.
Svantaggi
The trouble comes in the paycheck. Really low pay levels no matter how good you are at your job. The problems comes after Christmas, after the company has made it's money and no longer needs you. Hours get cut across the board to levels where no one can possibly afford to pay the rent, much less pay the rent and still have $20 to eat for the week. You can't get unemployment. You can't get Food Assistance. Food Stamps require that you are working 21 hours a week and You're lucky if you're getting 12. Unemployment requires that you have been full time and that the company lets you go through no fault of your own. There's no such thing as full time for almost all of the workers. I wonder if they are proud of themselves? The only way they can have employees is if the government subsidizes them, with the majority of their employees on food stamps and rental assistance programs or selling plasma and haunting food banks to be able to eat. I would never have taken the job if I knew that I would be facing homelessness in the coldest months of the year.