Vantaggi
As a full time employee you get benefits like 401k, health insurance and PTO and that is pretty much it. I don't see any pros for part time employees.
Svantaggi
Where to start? They pay in this company is one of the worst out there. Any part time associate anywhere gets paid better than a Full Time in this company. I worked as a full time associate for 5 years with them. It was a mission to get a raise of a few cents a year and the work got more demanding and basically they expect you to manage a store (because most of the managers don't get to have an assistant) for less than $10 an hour. They give very little hours to part time associates and the turnover is very high, they stay for a few months and then they leave. You spend many hours in the store by yourself because there is no payroll to have 2 people working. The company is a mess and they have no control over freight. You spend weeks waiting to get any shipment and customers complaining because you don't have in stock what they want and then all of the sudden they send crazy amounts of shipments everyday and you can't keep up with it. They have no idea of the capacity of the stockrooms and it gets so crowded with so many shoes that you can barely walk. There is no extra payroll to process freight and you are supposed to do it while you handle a busy store most of the time by yourself. The upper management has very unrealistic expectations about sales and the way the stores should be run. They drive managers insane and then there is this costumer service survey that they go crazy about and customers just do that to get the discount and they don't even look what they write in there and the corporate people just believes that and they have no clue about all the hard work associates do in the store with very little resources and no payroll.