Pros
Most of your coworkers will be friendly and actually care about the work they're doing. You get to have a lot of awesome interactions with customers as a salesperson and, if you care to actually learn your stuff, as an educator, which is a unique opportunity. If you like the wares sold here, it can be a pretty cool job because you'll get some free stuff of course. Pay is more than some retail jobs. A couple departments at the main office are pretty informative and open to new ideas-the buyer and PR usually. It can look pretty good on a resume if you're looking to get into Sex Ed education or any other work having to do with sexuality or sensitive issues...you can teach the free in-store classes after being there for a while, which can be good practice for future jobs involving instruction.
Cons
They're still trying to present as an ethical business like it used to try to be when it was a co-op, but this is not the case. To "stay competitive," it's becoming exactly like all the other newer adult boutiques. It has become more and more about making money, less about doing good. The CEO is really not a nice guy, but sometimes he acts like one. More and more silly things are being imposed...basically they want this to be like the Macy's of adult stores or something. Which might make it successful but most people I worked with were very disappointed as it became clear that Good Vibes was eagerly headed toward bland. Mission aside, there's practically no room to advance in position or pay. Can't hate on them too much here, because it's never implied that you could ever make more than $12.25 an hour. Yes, in San Francisco. It's retail so, not surprisingly, most of the managers won't put out a schedule in advance and won't give you a set schedule. You don't have promised hours. Sometimes managers encourage you to "go above and beyond" in ways that are uncomfortable and not actually required...they can forget that some of this is sensitive stuff, and inappropriate. Worst of all is the realization that most people feel like they're on a sinking ship because while GV is trying to become uniform and chain-like, there is no positivity coming from their main offices. Just constant correction, new instruction, frequent updates that employees quit or were fired, etc. So yeah, just mostly regular retail that fronts like it isn't. But I guess that's most retail!