Vantaggi
I absolutely loved my coworkers and still keep in contact with many of them. Pay is nice and employees undergo reviews twice a year and are eligible for raises each review. 401K!! Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance. Vision + dental. When I was working there part time and full time employees had health insurance but i believe they changed that this year (2014). You earn days off through Absence Reserve system (paid time off), it takes a while to earn a few days worth of AR but when you get enough and decide to use it, you can, no questions asked, super easy. Great for students, they will work around your school schedule. Very fun environment to work in. Holidays and randomly themed days are fun to work because you can dress up. Examples include: Halloween, Bowtie Day, Mustache Day. Every couple of months they do a paid Crew Tasting so you get to eat free food and gain product knowledge. Every year they do a bowling party at chelsea piers and in the summer do a catered crew lunch party at the boat basin cafe on riverside park. Opportunity to move up in the company is always there if you work hard and prove yourself. Customers can be really amazing, kind, funny, memorable (ill never forget pink haired breast cancer survivor woman, she was so amazing) and the elderly couple that are so in love and have been together forever it makes you want to cry cuz its so darn sweet.
Svantaggi
Customers can be effing crazy, demanding, flat out weird-o's, rude, insane (but for every nut job you've got 10 good ones). If you're sick and you can't make it to work you have to bring a doctors note with you next time you come in to work or else it counts as a strike against you. So if you're sick with something "simple" like the flu, which i don't consider worthy of going to a doctor for because there is nothing they can do about it except tell u to get over the counter medicine; you essentially go to the doctor and pay a co-pay for a piece of paper. The job is VERY PHYSICALLY INTENSE! Many people including myself have suffered multiple work related injuries. If you're in shape and can do a lot of heavy, repetitive lifting then you should be okay. Some common injuries include: wrist nerve/muscle pain and upper and lower spinal injuries (aka neck and lower back) from incorrectly heavy lifting or heavy lifting in excess. Most of your shift you will be at the register ringing people up and it can get exhausting and repetitive IF you're not TRYING to make it fun.