Walmart

Excellent for experience and learning.

Pays $2k a year for education (college classes).

Opportunity for learning retail operations, front end, fulfillment, foods, fashion, and setup (merchandising). Lots to learn.

If you pick up a CPHR or have a business degree, this could be your 5-year path to 100k jobs in HR or store management.

Constant pressure from above to improve despite pushing in a direction away from company values. For example, wage spend has gone down consistently every year. January was -10% from the former year, and it continued at -5% afterwards.

Service level is going down despite expectations for it to go up. Roles are being added that would require entire additional full employment, while wage budgets are being cut.

You will be babysitting the dumbest individuals on Earth, who work for minimum wage because they literally could do nothing else on the planet, even if they tried. Patience and kindness are essential.

The level of corporate politics and sociopathic butt-covering you would expect to see at a megacorporation.

Work is shift work without nights; there's no comfy 8-to-5 in retail.

An annual raise is 3%; it's 0% if you get ducked over on a review. Inflation is 7%, but gas is actually at a 100% increase at the moment. You do the math.

To the company: treat your assistant managers like valued potential peers, not numbers, you boomer farts.

Lead through intrinsic motivation. Your people want to learn to be better. Show them how. Show them the college classes and challenge them in store. Treat mistakes as teachable moments.

And for luck's sake, give a cost of living adjustment based on inflation, yearly.