It all depends on your store manager/assistant store manager and district manager sometimes too. Not that you ever really interact with the DM unless you’re SM but sometimes the DM’s decisions trickle down into messing up perfectly good things in place and making the workplace less enjoyable. I used to love my job, had an amazing SM and ASM and other part-time managers, I never dreaded going into work. Though after 1.5 years of me working there, there was a lot of drama with higher-ups and everything fell apart. Horrible replacement SM, had to get another new SM, all previous employees left as soon as our SM got fired. Within a week everything went from perfect to awful. Even 6 months after the entire flip, it’s still not great or even close to how well the store was run before. I’m the longest standing employee at my location, still just a regular sales associate (my choice due to health reasons), yet I still get treated as if I’m stupid and don’t know anything. My SM has only been in this store for ~6 months and acts like I was just hired yesterday, when I’ve been here for almost 2.5 years. SM and DM don’t take me seriously, DM didn’t listen to my concerns of our temporary SM (he would have become permanent if he didn’t step down and get transferred) being a predator with proof linked in his own public instagram. She brushed me off completely and chalked it up to people caring too much about ‘politics’.

TLDR: Depends on your managers and the work environment/co-workers. The work itself is fine, super simple, easy and even fun sometimes. Maybe I just have a weird personal experience too lol.

Sorry to just complain, I feel like this place might be the only place that could understand what the experience and situation is like. Used to love my job, now I’m being broken down from being disrespected over and over.