Everything else. You're dealing with uptight morons that think that corporate management and marketing is some omniscient ruler that can never be understood. You deal with entitled individuals that couldn't cut it in a normal workplace that will abuse their coworkers and lie about them behind their backs. You will either have a manager that has no problem writing up their employees for even the slightest mistake, or you will have managers that will never write up people, even for starting physical altercations or cursing at their coworkers. You will have to deal with an HR department that is unresponsive to anyone other than the store manager, even if you are another manager in the store. As a manager, my position and task was simple: take care of all back-end inventory paperwork, execute new product display changes, put away and consolidate product that just arrived, and to dictate where I needed assistance for that week/day to my fellow managers (who were supposed to either help or get someone to help). Instead, my staff and peers were highly combative, refused to offer any assistance or do anything I asked stating that this was "entirely my job and department", and would purposefully sabotage my work. I was forced to find ways to cram 90 hours of week each week into less than 40. Taking this job was the single worst decision of my life. I didn't earn enough money as the second most powerful person in the store to actually live within 100 miles of the store I worked at.
