Pros
The support and energy of my other stylists made weekends fun to work. The hours of the store are very nice open from 10-6 so no really late nights. The dress code is fun and gives you freedom to express yourself through clothes.
Cons
Upper level management could really care less about the employees, it’s all about money for them. And instead of sending someone more capable to teach you and train you to do better, they just restructure stores with no warning. They fire the highest paying employees and then stick their work load on lower level employees with no in-store management support and just expect you to figure it out on your own. Like that is going to save the money in the long run. They take advantage of you because they ask you to take the responsibility and do the jobs of a Store leader but don’t give you the pay or benefits. But you don’t have the luxury of just up and quitting because of need money. So you suffer through it all, never getting recognition for LITERALLY keeping their store open and running. Once you finally taught yourself to do everything in the store, upper level management just comes to say you’re not making them enough money and we should just gut the team and start over. Which is insane because they actually think they could get more “qualified” people to come work for them at 15$ an hour with no commission?! When the reality is if they just took a week to TRAIN the team, things might actually turn around for their business.