Pros
Working at Liquor Depot, you have the opportunity to meet some great coworkers and friendly regular customers. You also have the ability to move up in the company if you're tenacious enough and you've got the time and the skill to do so.
Cons
As a retail job that encompasses mostly young, relatively well educated adults and teenagers, it's not worth it. Of course it's highly dependent on your manager, the assistant manager and your coworkers, but my general consensus is that you'd be well advised to look elsewhere for a part-time or full-time job. The amount of crap you have to deal with day to day literally drains you to the point of exhaustion. Whether it's an incompetent manager, lazy coworkers or head office forcing orders of product you don't need, want or even have space for, this job almost always guarantees total physical and mental exhaustion. Four months in and I can say beyond any shred of doubt that this is the unhealthiest I've ever been in my entire 20 years of being alive. Because of the late night shifts, my schedule now keeps me awake until the early morning which means I sleep until the afternoon and then I get up and go to work and repeat. My job before Liquor Depot required early morning starts and physical activity for at least 5 hours and that was the best shape I've ever been in. Now I have circles under my eyes that look like they've been colored in with Sharpie. I deal with ridiculous orders, sometimes over ten pallets and a good 60% of the product has nowhere to go. In any retail environment, you deal with crappy customers, but working in a liquor store? You get the absolute worst for customers. Escorts, shoplifters, drunks, drug addicts, homeless, change artists, alcoholics, bitter people, criminals, underage kids, people with fake IDs, even ex-cons. Almost everyone you deal with is either drunk or on their way to get drunk. The "Under 40" policy is an absolute joke which ultimately ends up being more trouble than it's worth. My advice? Get out while you can if you' re in. If you're not, don't get in. This job, no matter what the position, is a soul killer. You may like your coworkers. Hell, you might even like your manager, but at the end of the day, when you've crawled through and dealt with the most savage people you'll encounter in a retail job and you've realized head office and their board of directors are so far removed from the bounds of sensible thought that they think they know how to order for your store, you'll understand the Liquor Depot is absolute and utter crap. You will not get the pay you deserve, you will not get proper hours that actually encourage healthy sleep patterns, you will not get the respect nor the benefits you deserve and even if you make it past the 3 month probationary period, you'll blow your staff discount on alcohol because even if you didn't drink when you started, this hellhole will drive you to it.
