Pros
- Checkouts are a great way to improve on your communication skills - Build a rapport with regular customers - Relatively competitive wages
Cons
- Your contracted hours will be eclipsed by your "available hours"; this means they don't have to scale up your annual leave allowance because you're more than likely going to have low contracted hours, yet you'll be working so much more than that per week - Managers and Team Leaders didn't care about the constructive feedback I had to help improve the quality of life at work - You will receive abuse from disrespectful customers who have entitlement issues - You will get upset if you don't have thick skin - The grind of putting out stock and facing up was monotonous - Generally unstimulating work - don't expect to give your brain a workout - Unreliable checkout operating systems - crashes happened often, which delays the customers and the service you can provide - Leave requests have to be submitted 4 whole weeks in advance of the first day of leave - Say goodbye to your evenings and weekends
