Pros
- All employees were very kind, you build your own team and can make the best of it - The work itself outside of holiday season is easy, steady, and not too overwhelming - You can have a lot of fun merchandising and making fun shopping experiences for kids :) - Pay is decent for AMs and SMs - Benefits are great! Health, dental etc.
Cons
- Very little training - High expectations for a dollar store, especially with the low hours given in payroll - LOTS of unpaid overtime for salaried manager. Paid for 45 hrs a week but worked closer to 80hrs at times - Little to no work/life balance - Rude district managers, regional managers, and corporate as a whole - Every night you have to remerch the ENTIRE store because every shelf ends up destroyed - District managers are very pushy on store sets, expecting them to be done within a two days - If stores within your district or nearby districts are understaffed, they will pull you from your store and expect that you cover others - Tons of call outs from associates in your store and in others, low pay for associates as well so lots of turnover - Bad communication with DMs and RMs - New merchandising process is terrible and a waste of time, but is expected I feel like I could go on forever about the cons LOL