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If you happen to work with a store manager or colleague who is genuinely professionally trained, you can really learn quite a lot of professional knowledge. Looking at that store, some store managers are very selfish and self-serving and don’t have much ability; they just happen to be better suited to being supervisors. Other store managers are genuinely empathetic toward their colleagues. If you encounter a capable store manager, you can learn many sales techniques, and they will also teach you how to improve, which can enhance your sales skills. If you encounter a less capable store manager, they will only tell you to go home and look up the information yourself. It sounds nice to say they are cultivating your ability to be proactive, but in reality, they simply don’t know themselves and don’t dare say so.
Don’t expect to leave work on time, and don’t expect to apply for overtime.
Once the company’s working hours have passed, you can no longer clock out. If you ask your supervisor to enter the record manually, they won’t record the actual time you left. This should be illegal.
There are staff shortages everywhere, and people don’t stay for long. Benefits have deteriorated since the company went public, and many long-term employees have also left.
It is now very easy to become a store manager after joining the company. Once you have been a full-time employee for more than six months, you will almost certainly have the opportunity, because you may be the most senior full-time employee at that store.
Don’t assume the salary here is high. If you evaluate it based on the work involved and the physical and mental exhaustion, the pay here is very, very poor. Also, don’t expect there to be a time when you receive a raise.