Pros
Join in order to obtain a Job Title that is beyond your current ability level at present (E.G if you are an Area manager presently you will be a Regional Manager here - Financial Controller, you can be Head of Finance etc.). Spend 2 years maximum with this Company and use your Job Title as a platform to obtain a similar role elsewhere with a Company that you can build a career with.
Cons
• Pay - poor • Development - Non-existent • Trust - None! • Opportunities - entirely dependent upon your 'brown-nosing' skills rather than any talent you possess • Future prospects for the Company/Brand - Extremely grim! • CEO - Absent (one day pw at best!) • COO - Shameless self protecting individual who will stand on anybodys head to protect his position. Masked by a very thin veneer that he is acting in the Company's best interests rather than his own, which the CEO could easily spot if she actually turned up a bit more! • MD - A nicer person it would be difficult to meet but would struggle to get beyond a Senior Management role in a 'proper' Company. Pitifully short of external experience and incapable of Managing the Company's Directors (a prerequisite of the role) or frankly any true Leadership skills and it pains me to say this as she is one of the sweetest people I have met.