Pros
It's a job Sometimes you can make great friends with your co-workers My store has become somewhat like a family, until the store-related things come into play
Cons
People are so quick to lie and cover up for their own butts You don't get any breaks whatsoever, except a cigarette break but even then you have to be doing something and what happens when you don't smoke? You're stuck inside the hot store for 8 hours. At one point the Friday trucks came in at 8:30 and you would have to work from 8:30 pm Friday to 7:00 AM Saturday morning putting the truck away and still performing your normal 3rd shift (midnight shift) duties, all without any breaks whatsoever. Yes, you could say you can take a break anyway, but then when the FC and store manager watch the tapes, you're in trouble. The hours are horrible, everybody is scheduled right close to overttime except one person and that person is supposed to be full-time but they get 22-30 hours a week, that way if somebody calls out they can come in, but when that person needs to call out, all Hades breaks loose. You get the customers that want to act like smart alecks and try to give you a rough time because it's funny, when you've been working for 8 days straight with no break. On the midnight shift you have to detail clean the entire store, and some of the cleaning can take 1- 1 1/2 hour and you have a daily truck that comes in sometimes right before your busiest time of night. You have to do your own extra tasks, while doing the extra things everybody else felt they didn't have the time to do and if you don't get it done, it's your fault. Everybody on every shift says they don't have the time for this or that yet the midnight shift has all of the time consuming tasks which, if done correctly, will take up the majority of the 8 hours, the remainder of the time being used to focus on the customers in the morning time. However, along with the strenuous time consuming tasks they already have each night, the midnight shift must also correct anything the other shifts did wrong, while also hunting for things that the earlier shifts felt they "didn't have enough time" to put back in their proper places. Our town has a festival every year and our store is smack down in the middle of it. Some of the higher-ups come down to "help us", which in reality, we have to teach them how to cook a pizza in the oven, or show them how to read the grill forecasts, or how to replace a slurpee bib-and these are the guys who are supposed to be leading US. What good's the help if you have to keep baby-feeding them everything? They've been with this company for years and I've only been with it for one and I know more about it than they do.