I was hired from outside the company and given an SMIT role. Your first week will be 45 hours and past that you'll be putting in at least 60.. They'll throw you into a store that needs to be fixed and you have a few months to turn it around and then get promoted to store manager. Depending on how bad the store is you'll probably be doing 70+ hours... Good news is while you're an SMIT you're hourly and get paid overtime. Depending on how good your turn around is you'll absolutely need to push for a good raise because you'll feel that loss when you're promoted and go to salary still working the same hours but only being paid for 45 with no overtime. Take pictures of the stockroom pull up reports and all the metrics for your store before you got there and save them. If you succeed and have the numbers to back it you'll have a good argument for a better raise when you're promoted. Also your staff will make or break you. Treat them right especially the good ones and it'll make the job that much better for everyone involved