Vantaggi
Wear whatever I want. Able to use my phone on the job. Just observe and not engage in direct manual labor all day, with the exception of apprehensions. Training involves going to other stores and staying hotels with meals paid for, etc. Highest hourly pay in the company.
Svantaggi
You're in the wind. You have to meet your market average. Other APA's are your competition. You better catch as many or more than they do. You have to break the AP-09 policy to be successful at your job. No one can know about what exactly what you're doing except certain managers and your APC. All these Cons are why you are at the mercy of your APC, the sole manager that directly handles you. The APC (usually having been an APA themselves at some point) know you have to break the rules to do your job. If they don't like you, have buyers remorse after hiring you, or really any reason at all...they have a sure fire way of getting rid of you. Only the APC knows what your exact assignment was, because the other managers have no exact/direct authority over you, and therefore never really know what you're doing. It's the word of the APA against the word of the APC. My boss wouldn't let me make my own schedule (which every other APA in my district AND market was doing), I would catch them spying on me across the store through racks of merchandise (no, I am not joking), criticized my report writing...but only when they knew I wrote it (I had an APA, that trained me, help me write a report for them) and they told me to rewrite it. When the APC knew that that certain APA wrote it, it was good writing. I could go on and on over how they obsess over even a minute of accidental overtime (you're written up the first time, then fired after the second or third depending on the circumstance). It also took me six months to actually and fully get the job. From application to getting my name tag, to working on my own, in my own store at home. Three of those months were just trying to get someone to call me back for my follow-up interviews they said would be scheduled.
