Prós
The training is phenomenal. Most of your co-workers are helpful, enthusiastic and fun to work with. The pay rate is higher than others, but they definitely make you work for it! General Manager is dedicated - works alongside you.
Contras
Store Managers and FT employees play favorites. They and their favorites can talk personal business all the time, but if your caught talking business to another associate, you're asked (usually over the walkie from the break room where they are managing via the camera system) "where's the family reunion?" This store wants FT availability, but only offers PT hours. A lot of the staff are two-faced. You can walk into the break room and they'll be talking behind someone's back, yet the feedback they offer to the person they're talking about is the opposite of what they obviously feel. Managers and FT favorites delegate to everyone else - even if you're already working hard on another project, they will ask you to do something so they don't have to do it. FT staff can be patronizing when talking to you or asking you to do something. It seems that they are too busy running the floor to actually do any work. Managers change the schedules and don't post the new one. They expect you to know they changed it, and to look it up on the computer to discover the changes. Managers barely work on the floor. Actually, I've seen the SM working on the floor twice since I've been there. The company talks a great philosophy. It is a shame it isn't realistic in this store.