Pros
the work is simple, brainless at times. your experience here (good, bad, awful) will depend greatly on the type of people your co-workers are
Cons
if you work in commissioned sales, and your manager does not set ground rules on how to determine who gets which customer, or does not enforce the rules well, your going to argue constantly with co-workers. you'll hate this job when you have no one you can trust. turn over rate is very high for sales, this just makes finding people you can trust harder. there are responsibilities that must be shared with co-workers, like keeping clean, taking items back to where they were originally, making the items look presentable. if your co-workers are lazy, or want to focus on making sales, they are not going to take shared responsibilities seriously. worst care scenario, youll start your shift in a messy department, and your manager will want YOU to clean everything before you leave, at same time as meeting sales and credit card quotas for the day. if you like to use your employee discount, youll find that it wont take many purchases before you use all your earnings, and possilty future earnings if you pay with credit. if you thought you were poor before you took this job, the job can you even poorer. i never found it hard to resist shopping here, its just clothes and shoes. the discount is surely not a reason to work here, youll better prices for same items elsewhere. on-line for example.
