Vantaggi
The 40% discount is more than generous, until you want to buy electric items. The policy has recently changed to include a larger discount for one item a month, but in general, one gets 10% (basically sales tax) off on electrics.
Svantaggi
At this time, one isn't allowed to work more than 25 hours each week. Reaching this number is RARE. On the last schedule, just about everyone (outside of management) had only 15 hours for the week. A ruckus was recently kicked up when an employee asked for a co-worker's phone number to ask her to switch shifts. Apparently, it's no longer allowed for the management to give out employee phone numbers; even to other employees! In past times, the weekly schedule was emailed to employees when it was finalized. Not anymore. The company claimed that an employee reading this information at home was considered "work" and they couldn't pay people to do this "work" outside of regular shifts. Huh? Now, people are required to come to the store to get their schedule. Can we get paid for that? What about the gas? The lack of employee parking leaves few options for employees. Either we have to pay ($7/day) to park in a city garage, park at meters, hoping not to overstay our dime, or search for parking in the surrounding neighborhoods, roughly a 15-20 minute walk from the store.