Pros
Were it not for the customers, my team members and store manager, I would have quit two weeks after training.
Cons
Tractor Supply runs a bare-bones operation, shorting the employees and the customers for the benefit of the management and stockholders. I can't be any more succinct. Tractor Supply manages to maximize profits by keeping the stores incredibly understaffed. If you're a competent worker, you're expected to work harder to make up the difference between not having enough other competent staff members AND the layabouts who are kept on the schedule to have someone else to focus your anger on and not what's REALLY going on with the upper management is doing. There are tons of examples of how the district managers screw the individual stores, and how the cooperation screws the individual stores, but here's a little "Christmas Carol" for you... To maximize profits at the end of 2017, Tractor Supply is cutting all it's hourly employee hours for the rest of the month to get an extra added bonus to Cooperate Heads, Regional Managers, District Managers, and Stock Holders. So after months of being told "If you want the big hours during the holiday season later this year, you'll do what you have to do now..." was really no more than an empty threat. The customers get less service, the employees don't get the extra hours we've been promissed, but that's OK, The Motley Fool website LOVES us because of our profit margins! According to another "Old Timer," We had more members on staff during our slowest weeks in August than we will during our busiest weeks of the whole year, now in December.