Pros
Gear discount. Casual, brainless environment. Fun job for a teenager or college kid who doesn't actually have bills.
Cons
Toxic, top down, very low pay. They will work you to your limits, pay you in booze, and then be stunned when you ask for higher wages or to move departments. The most toxic management moves up the scale. The owner once fired his assistant and then left for months on vacation dumping all of their responsibility on mid level and volunteer staff to make aassive event happen. When we got our groove he came back and took over everything, it was disruptive, and told those who stepped up to back off because he was in charge. They never consult with low level staff. Don't bother with integrity, passion, improvement or hard work. It doesn't matter. It's about keeping labor costs low, and profits high. I worked 70hrs per week, some as a volunteer, doing high risk and high skill work, and had to beg for $15/hr. It's a ripe environment for the most manipulative, Machiavelli, and sexist workers to thrive. The culture is such that you are encouraged to work, live and party with your coworkers. Spending your money at the bar to get in with management. It's very cult like Gossip abounds. Burn out is constant. They also don't train from within so there's no opportunity to move into real career level work. And if you speak out you become a target and they will make things up about you in order to create a paper trail that leads to your dismissal.