Pros
Prior to New CEO, it was a nice mom and pop operation. Low wages but strong worklife balance and kind regional directors/DMs.
Cons
Industry low wages. Most store managers start around $41k with 10% max bonus, 6% max raise. Associates are min wage. Supervisors are $2 more than min. Lead Supervisors are $16 p/h. No bonus or incentives. Managers were put to salary from hourly. Were told 41 hours. Turned in 47 hours. Turned into you cover all callouts. Stores have poor infrastructure on receiving. Most stockrooms are tiny and have no nestaflex or adequate processing areas. Regional Managers are gods among men. They know all and you are wrong. They make you panic that your store needs to look perfect yet do not provide proper payroll. Payroll is based on planned sales. Not workload. Get an extra truck that week? No extra money. LP is constantly watching and doing everything they can to find internal theft even when nothing is there. Most employees get 10 hours a week. You constantly have to cut full time hours. CEO also purchased several Teslas for the executive team. Meanwhile we got nothing extra for for working covid. No Covid bonus. Nothing. You also keep opening stores and focusing on sales. But profit for 2021 was only $80 million. That's horrid for 600 stores.