Pros
Salary, Health Insurance & Ease of work.
Cons
1. Workplace politics will leave you stressed and frustrated. Senior staff Davino is patronizing and cynical, seeks any opportunity to diplomatically throw you under the bus as he was promised a promotion to ASM by Area manager so he became completely insecure when I joined the workplace. 2. Area manager is not worth giving any respect. Being a mature lady she is influenced by Davino. 3. Since I was new to the line of jewellery, I made many mistakes and senior staff Davino being experienced was highlighting it constantly to area manager and other management to display my incompetence to show her why he is the more deserving person for the position. 4. Think before joining as it will not only ruin your mental health but your career. I had a great salary, work life and camaraderie but mental torture due to the unethical way of working was getting to me. Raising this issue to the area manager felt like talking to a wall. She was in zero empathy or understanding for what I was going through. 5. If you're joining as a manager, there will be no training/coaching provided and there is no in-store buddy alloted. You will be left at the mercy of the staff. So if you learn from them, you will not be able to boss them. It will create a very complex situation. 6. Approvals depend on the Area Manager. Store manager is basically a sales associate with a blazer on. You will have no authority for attendence regularisation, store expense approvals, other store related approvals. 7. There are no developed SOPs or chain of command in this company. Things are just running for the sake of it and nobody in the company replies to any mails. Over that they brag that a single person has over 300 stores to reply to hence the delay. Company should in this case at least hire 5-10 people to get the job done as store operations are continuously taking a hit due to this. 8. Area manager is least bothered about store hygiene, standard, ambience, maintanence, lack of beverages, lack of petty cash reimbursement. All she wants is sales to randomly happen without any support or prior planning. (Since SM/ASM has no autonomy. Everything has to be done through area manager). 9. It's easy to blame higher management but it's the unfortunate truth that nothing in this company's higher management is organised and people are very lazy, they treat their jobs like a govt job.