Company: Apple
Date: 2010-01-25
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

A Three Year Series of Ups and Downs.
Pros: -You work with nice, fun, interesting people. Your co-workers become your friends.
-Everyday is different. 
-Stock plan.
-You acquire skills that will help you professionally.
Cons: -For the most part, it's a job not a career.  In my time with the company I have never seen a retail employee go into management.  Having been surrounded by talented people with plenty of leadership potential this has been frustrating.  I passed on several great job opportunities when I graduated college to work towards a career in leadership.  I feel as if I have been lead on for far too long.  
-Corporate recently took away a bunch of roles and positions within the retail stores.  Nobody lost their jobs but the timing was terrible.  To make such an announcement during the busy holiday season was irresponsible.  Even worse, the announcement was delivered by the website that corporate uses to communicate with retail.  The message wasn't even delivered face to face. The morale in our store is lower than it has ever been.