Pros
Lego was my first job and I've worked at two locations, with 3 different managers, two assistant managers and more brick specialists than I can count. Two of those managers were terrible, one lazy and didn't care (and recently fired after 6 years) and the other hired only because her husband (the lazy one I just mentioned) reccomended her. She on the other hand was controlling and only hired mindless robots. We now have a new DM and store manager and I can truly say that things are looking up. I look forward to going to work, our manager encourages us to have fun and truly inspire the builders of tomorrow. But I think there are still more changes that could be made. Other pros are the employee discount, the employee Christmas gift, yearly bonus, and managers get a monthly allowance that mine uses to buy us food on the weekends or busy holidays.
Cons
There is not a lot of opportunity for upward movement or availability of hours. When obamacare started they made sure to not schedule any part timers over 27 hours ever. There is also a high turnover rate which makes it hard for the tenured employees to keep everything running smoothly. We are constantly training new people. Our store also has about 20 employees currently with our manager looking for more, which means less hours for everyone. Some people average 10-15 hours which is not livable but we are asked to have open availability and sometimes management is not always willing to work with another jobs schedule.
