Pros
Healthcare cost. You will participate ina master class on corporate politics in learning how to play the game by building your personal brand and having the right relationships. You will learn how to lead conversations using the four parts of speech with employees to break them down of their personal concerns and opinions that are opposed to the culture and give them feedback they MUST be receptive to and NOT push back on in order to build artificial buy in with company initiatives and changes. You will learn to control narratives; that is be able to get ahead of any issues or noise coming out of your store to limit the spotlight and involvement from upper management and contain/resolve the issue to create the facade that everything is under control. Do these things well and you can rise through the ranks very fast and make decent(but below market average) income. Just don’t get comfortable or expect tenure and loyalty to be valued or reciprocated; the fall inevitably will blind side you.
Cons
The cons have been previously outlined just this year by a combination of employees in past reviews. Some are tenured and some new; they are spread across the country and across varied corporate and retail departments. For reference of my cons please see reviews from 5/4/18 and 5/11/18. You can see more from 2018 alone that align in message. Pay close attention to the replies on these reviews from the pseudo “HR” team called Talent Support to gain insight on the culture of “talking off” any problem. To use the DT vernacular: they lack the emotional intelligence needed to be receptive to feedback, take ownership of the issues that get brought to light, and be personally accountable to make the necessary change to improve employee morale and retention by being intentional and sincere about providing a healthier work environment.
