Avantages
Company is very flexible with college and high school students Really friendly people Good first job Can allow a lot of people to break out of their shell socially.
Inconvénients
The main problem is just Father Time. It truly waits for no one and I'm just not sure if a VERY small (in scheme of today's grocery chains) company like Roth's will be around in the long run unless it gets bought out by one of the big boys. Anyways, some other stuff: 1. The company literally fires no one unless of course you steal. Some people that would of been let go ages ago in most places have often worked their way into management roles. Not good. At. All. 2. Despite having a very manageable number of locations Corporate has a poor sense of battles to pick. I Can't even tell you how many times someone from corporate walks in, sees something minor and proceeds to heap a ton of stress on my manager. Not good. 3. The company has a very weird culture/ expectations drop off every day: most of the maxed out checkers work from 6-230. The old guard believes everyone should be helped out (which is next to impossible these days) and can you feel the stress in the air. It's not fun at all. Literally at 230 college and high school kids start and you can almost feel the store relax a bit. 4. Being a manager (or a lower level key person) attracts some pretty cool (and young) people and can make for a really fun and low key work environment. Problem is a good chunk of the younger ones see the job for what is (a means not an end) and rarely stick around to move up beyond their current position. 5. Lastly, post Orville Roth a lot of things (both big and little) have been Changed, scaled back, or just done away with completely (the now defunct Christmas party being an example of the latter) I always got the vibe from older employees that the benefits and health coverage has been scaled back quite a bit. You just have a lot of older employees who make so much money (despite a lot of it not being terribly skilled labor) that age and wage drop keep them from seeing other opportunities.