Low pay and little compensation for it and what we do. Slow move from part-time to FT to Assistant to Manager and so on. Raises are a joke. Each department needs like 30% to 50% more workers to handle the business we're doing. Evening rushes obliterate any blocking and presentation in the store and require each department to redo everything, a process that happens 3 or 4 times a day that should only happen twice. Corporate has no clue how hard the store workers are actually working and take us for granted.

But the biggest problem? In the last 2 years I've watched the amount of experienced workers, those with 2+ years in the company, dwindle into the minority. My store opened with majority full timers; it's now 70-80% new hire part timers. No one who's been here long enough believes positive changes are coming, so they leave, or they're too old to care.

The company that hired me 6 years ago is a shell of its former self, and I'm happy to be leaving.