Working at Zellers is like working with a big disfunctional family.

Everyone plays nice infront of the management, but its all knives to the back as soon as the parents are out of the room.

As far as I can tell a pretty common theme in these stores is general corruption. At the store I worked at the woman in charge of inventory would 'accidentally break' a box or 2 of chocolate bars or what not and end up stashing them in her desk after writting them off. She would hide them so no one would find them, but a select few new of her corruption and decided to skim from it.

If you ever have to work at one of these locations, I suggest you either

a) Deafen yourself before work

or

b) Smuggle a walkman as much as you can.

Unless you have a thing for easy listening style 80s pop, or better yet during the holiday season, constant droning christmas songs, you will find yourself cursing the person at the musical controls. During my period there, I began to foster a theory that there were 2 people in control of the music, a man and a woman, and they would take turns playing the songs often in some sort of theme with what was going on in their lives. As you can tell the music begins to eat away at your brain.

Dealing with management is also a pain in the ass. Especially if you are working as a part time individual. You are nothing more than fodder, scum, expendable. If they don't like the job you've done there is no forgiveness, there doesn't have to be, there are quite a few people willing to take your job.

Over all, I definately don't recommend this job to anyone unless they have a deviant sense of humour which will allow them to keep their sanity through the affair.