Pros
With their excessively high turnover, it's always easy to find some part-time work in a down economy.
Cons
Working 55-60 hours/week for $30k/year is insulting. The board is constantly looking for ways to increase productivity and reduce labor costs. My margin/actives/scorecard/freight/sales have always been in the top quartile yet I ranked in the bottom 10% of earnings for professional salesmen in my city. Commission is a pitiful 3% on new, 1% on existing. Used to be 4/2% but some director must have wanted a bigger yacht. A few years back, they shifted many costs of business onto the DMs. DMs then began low-balling pay for all employees, cutting part-time hours, etc. They did this so they could earn bigger bonuses for running lean. No store doing over $250,000 should have only three employees. One DM I had would send 5-10 emails daily about how our margin/freight spread/actives/growth sucked. By month end, we'd hit our numbers and get a single line of congratulation followed by more hammering. "Good job on actives but now we need blahblahblah"
