Pros
-management is personable, friendly -very easy to get those 40 hours if you ask for it -coworkers are, for the most part, very friendly
Cons
- Unionized by the weakest and probably very corrupt union I have ever come across. They protect the bad workers while doing nothing for the good. - Pay is low for a retail store compared to other non-unionized stores. My starting pay was the same as Target's, with a 5 year difference between them. Why is there even a union when we can't even get competitive pay rates? - The punishment system is great, if you're only sick once or twice a year. Heaven help you if you get to that fifth day off, you're not allowed another sick day for a year after that. -Ordering system (the third in less than two years, I believe) is really bad. -Distributing center often mislabels boxes/orders. -Lots of stuff getting thrown away every 2 hours. -When corporate decides to stop by about every two weeks, suddenly management becomes very concerned with how clean the place looks and you'll spend hours cleaning. -Appreciation of what team members do is virtually non-existant. While I am sure most managers are thankful for their employees and some actually do say thanks, it feels like we are never awarded for going that extra mile or two or three, depending on how lazy the other people in your department are. -Old, outdated, unsafe equipment seems to be the rule rather than the exception.