Avantages
Individual department managers and leads are usually understanding and laid back. The production department is a great job for college kids -- flexible hours, fun staff and decent pay for relatively easy work. If you work in customer service or marketing you will learn A LOT and get great experience. Also -- all departments get to take a break every two hours. In marketing you get to do some travel as well.
Inconvénients
Production -- you're on your feet all day. Christmas is the busy season, and they usually run on 10 hour shifts at 6 days a week around the holidays. Also they usually cut back on staff and hours once the busy season is over, so prove your worth while you're there. Customer Service -- You usually work those same crazy hours during the busy season, and of course you have to deal with ridiculous customers. Problem with that is that the customer is always right at this company..even when the customer is completely wrong and is costing the company a ton of money. Management makes exceptions allll the time, which makes the customers think they can use coupons from 5 years ago or take advantage of a sale that ended last week, etc. Marketing -- Employees are usually lucky to last 6 months in this department. People usually find new employment in that time or the owners find a reason to get rid of them. You're expected to read minds and know everything about everything to excel in a position. Since December, three coordinators left for other employment. Two directors and two coordinators have been fired. While you learn a lot whole you're here (you do a little bit of everything), you never know when one little thing will get you fired. The owners have no real budget or schedule. They decide today that they're going to start a sale tomorrow (this is how every sale is) and micromanage everything that happens in the department. They treat successful careermen and women like incompetent children. There is a lot of travel involved, so if you don't want to travel, this position isn't for you.