I've worked retail most of my life & for the first time, I've found a decent company.
We're paid well. Our bosses are kind and focus on positive reinforcement. Our successes are cheered on, our failures are met as challenges we need to realistically overcome with helpful advice to get better.
When our district manager visits, I have 0% anxiety. That is so weird to me! She's there to actually help, usually when we get a big shipment we need help with, and then she praises us for how well we're doing before leaving. Past district managers would berate us constantly, move around everything in the store, and make everyone ridiculously nervous before leaving.
We get good PTO, it isn't a problem if I need to change my schedule sometimes, my boss who's the store manager isn't allowed to work more than 40 hours a week as a salaried person, it's just so weird to go to work every day knowing it's all good if I do my job.
Just wanted to share because I used to think being treated like shit was just how retail worked.