Pros
Other than the fact I met a couple of nice people in the same position as me, I simply cannot think of any pros.
Cons
There so many individual incidents if could write here but the list would be too long. So I'll select a few. Long hours, I got put on constant night shifts(1-10,2-11) with one unpaid break sometimes after two hours sometimes after 7 hours?! They decided out of the blue not to pay me when they said they would and pay me two months later, which can ruin your life for a small period of time. I was very ill and sick and got told to take more than the advised dosage paracetamol(dangerous and unhelpful) and told I was not allowed to leave. I was told to have a moment in the office as I was crying, one of the managers came in, never asked why I was crying if I was ok and told me to get out and on the shop floor because people's shifts were finishing. Most days included being patronised, spoken to with zero respect. Management is corrupt, has no organisational skills or in fact any relevant skills for the job. Staff below management are undervalued and there's a general feeling of over inflated self importance and a rather sad desperate sense of struggle to maintain image. I cannot stress how much I would NOT recommend working for Selfridges.