Pros
There's a dog, and the owner is very nice. Not like what someone else previously mentioned
Cons
This the place I talk about if I'm ever sharing my most traumatizing "horrible bosses" experience. 1. The pay. You will be paid minimum wage (she sugar coated it a bit in the interview, it is minimum wage), they will list you as salaried so you can never make more for the extra hours you put in, but they'll dock you the second you miss a minute or your regular shift. I used to work an extra half hour in almost every day, I had to leave for an emergency one hour early once and I was docked for it. You will also only be paid twice a month, and the first pay will be held. This won't be told to you until the day before your pay, so if you just need a job now to make ends meet, this is not for you. You can work at McDonald's and make the same amount and you'll be valued as an employee SO much more. 2.TAXES!!! I was warned when I started by a fellow employee and I didn't listen, they DO NOT file taxes properly. I made twice what I made at barter working at the job I moved on to, and my accountant had to explain why 2 MONTHS of a minimum wage job at Barter costed over $800. 00 in my refund. Thank God I wasn't there longer. 3. The boss. Her name is Patty (that's public record) and if I ever think of switching careers, I imagine landing a boss like her and think twice. She'll come off as welcoming and pleasant at first, and maybe she is outside of work, but she has no business managing employees. She will be extremely degrading if she's in a bad mood or doesn't like your work that day for whatever reason. She'll insult you, belittle you and play it off like it's normal. I had a colleague actually step in and say something to her in private and it helped a little... for about a day. Her moods will change often and with that, so will her expectations. What she wants from you one day will be different the next based on how she's feeling in the moment, so be prepared to get to know her mood swings and base your performance expectations off of that. Her moods also have a SIGNIFICANT impact on the atmosphere. If patty is in a bad mood you know it, because everyone is tense and short tempered, and rightfully so, she treats her employees horrendously when she's unhappy (which is often), it's natural to be tense around that. She reminds you a bit of an abusive parent; so incredibly rude to you one moment, that when she's finally treating you like a human being again, you're just so grateful you're not being treated like crap that you just let it go and move on. It's impressive how well she managed to make this a normal behavior for the couple senior employees she has. Working for her was traumatizing and it still haunts me a bit. Nothing good came from my experience there, other than to teach me what red flags you need to watch out for with employers, and why it's so important to get out early if you see them. 4. This is a very small company, so the fact that their turnover is so high says a lot about the value they place on their employees. 3 came and went during my 2 month tenure, in an office of maybe 10 people, that's high 5. Do not excersise your rights as an employee, she'll just punish you for it in her own manipulative way. She does find ways to ensure that employing you costs her as little as possible, so she skirts around labour laws. If you ever bring anything up, she'll address what you said, but then take something away from you as punishment, without calling it a punishment I. E, docking pay for some obscure (illegal) reason, mentioning a complaint that never existed prior to that conversation, etc... 6. What everyone previously has said is true, there isn't a future here. No room for advancement. You will always be paid less than the amount of work that's expected of you. I hope my experience can be useful to someone else, know your worth, minimum wage (and even entry level above minimum wage) positions are plentiful, she can't hold employees because she abuses them so my best advice is to not let it be you.
