If you work at a $50k/year store getting paid minimum wage is never a good sign
It's an extremely tedious job that, regardless of your physique, will leave you exhausted and in pain after only 2 hours of your shift (this doesn't get better)
the California stores don't have fans/AC and the stores are really dusty - I've had two asthma attacks in the first month I was here because of this. I can't imagine what it'd be like in the sweltering summer heat.
schedules aren't digitized - they're on a print-out table in the break room.
the policies are a little too strict...I'm not a rule breaker, but employees are human and mistakes happen. They give "meal penalties" here if you go over 5 hours on a shift without clocking out of lunch - this means that if you have exactly a five hour shift and are either held at the cash wrap a little later with a long line of customers, or are stopped by a customer on your run back to clock out you get a meal penalty. Three penalties and you're fired. No one will tell you if/when you get your first one until the end of the week. If you got 2 or three in that time completely unaware, you'll be fired basically without a warning. I have really mixed feelings about a company that will fire you without warning over going over your half-shift by one minute, but not bother to reprimand the people who are slacking off on a busy day.
