Avantages
I loved my co-workers. Just really cool people. I enjoyed the work, especially the physical aspects of it--climbing around in the stock room and moving things around for visual sales.
Inconvénients
I'm not sure why we had managers and full-timers at all. They spent the entire day in the break room chatting and drinking coffee. If you asked them to help out, even in the holiday season when the store was packed, they'd give you stick, tell you to get back to work and go back to their conversation. Management and full-time choose new full-timers, and no matter what they tell you they don't promote from within. If you ask about promotion more than once, they cut your hours so they don't have to fire you and pay unemployment. It's a cult. It really is. They put you in situations (overnights are the big one) where you form an unusually close bond with your co-workers and then punish you for stepping out of line by upbraiding you in front of your friends. If you don't toe the line, they cut your hours so that you can't see those new friends anymore.