Pros
Gratis and learning about unique brands pay was pretty good 18 an hour starting
Cons
Cooperate never wanted to help you, for every challenge you had they always found a way to make it your fault. I worked in a free standing store we had to set up the visual displays in the windows ourselves ladders, hammers, scraping words off windows leveling things, and follow poorly explained directions off a print out. We also had to change them every three weeks and on Christmas Eve every year staying late to set up the New Years window. Cooperate makes promises and never follows through. Also they hire store managers who have no experience hoping that you will train them. If it's your day off and they are having trainings (which they always do) either in your store, CT, or in the city (NYC) you have to go on your day off and counts as absent if you do not,so I have to wake up at 6:30 get ready go down to the city for an 8 to 9 am training get paid for one hour and have your day off ruined Orr the training could be from 3 to 4 still day off ruined!!! The systems are so old!! Everything you want to do takes twice as long as it should on the computer or anything! They also have a conversion that tells you how many people walked in and out all day and if your sales don't meet the number of walks in and out ur conversion brings your store down, our bathroom wasn't even in our store so that counted every time also running out to pay parking meters cuz there was no parking counted As a person who walked in and didn't buy anything and left or as a person you didn't sell to, taking a break getting coffee, anything counted as a customer going in and out ,conversion was always low and we got yelled at about it every day . Cooperate is a bunch of valley girls who talk like there in highschool and wear unprofessional clothing. I was in a store and the lease was up and the landlord wouldn't negotiate and lower it so they were closing down. I heard this from the local town buzz a month before they told me it was closing meanwhile they made us do a full store inventory with just three people ...I brought it to cooperates attention and they denied even knowing about it and then the next day they admitted they can't afford the rent anymore and laid us all off that day and didn't even try to find me a spot in any other location and then told me I prolly won't get unemployment but I can try...
