Pros
Pay when the hours are available which tends to be only towards the Christmas season and then it is all downhill.
Cons
Early starts and late finishes. They use the whole mentality of maximising efficiency to slave drive workers. Targets for unloading pallets especially during peak trading hours is ludicrous. The store management teams giving you veiled threats and warnings unnecessarily making you feel your job is vulnerable. Career progression at store level is nigh on non existent and the favouritism is stupendous as well. The area managers virtually offer no support whatsoever and then there is the no existent HR department so if you are not happy with certain issues that you want addressed such as sexism or misogyny then you have very little support at all from top management. The company actively dissuades store employees in particular from joining trade unions as these would as put by my area manager 'disrupt the workings of the business'. It seems they would do anything to make sure that you are not fully aware of your rights at work with them. If they mess up your pay it will only get rectified the following month which is not at all lawful but they could not care one bit. This organisation is designed to reward those at assistant store manager level upwards as that is where the bonus system works from.