Slave Labor - Anonymous employee Trader Joe's Employee Review

1.0
1 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work for somewhat better than minimum wages

Cons

You will probably get an injury while working. The company gives tons of lip service to awesome policies of rotating you every two hours so that you are never stuck on the same task for more than two hours at a time. This is ONLY lip service... You WILL be on the register for 6.5 to 7 hours straight and when you tell your manager you need a break and to be rotated you will be treated like a owned piece of Trader Joe's property and told NO. You will be promised great communication and no bureaucracy. You will experience horrible communication and excessive bureaucracy. You will be mistreated by management if you ask for them to back up their policies and don't expect to have their support when you end up injured. The manager I talked to when I was injured told me that there were no guarantee that they'd accommodate me in any way. When i did go to the doctor, they sent me there without the proper form. When I drove back to get it I was begrudgingly given a blank unsigned form. I had to ask twice to have it filled out and signed. I was then handed a blank form with the managers signature and no other info filled out on the form. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! This place is such a nightmare. Injured employees at this location I work at in Oklahoma are very common. There are 8 people out on workers comp right now. Outrageous.

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Pros

-Great way to meet people, socialize, and learn customer service -Always tasked with different things every hour -Friendly crew who will always help you to learn and get better at your job -Get a slight pay raise every 6 months -No outside commitments and amazing benefits if you work full time (about 28 hours a week for every 6 months) -Will take time, but find your friend group, stay with them and have fun, you can't please everybody -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

Cons

-Not many, unless you are stuck in a bad store with bad management -I had some good luck of working in 3 great stores, so YMMV -Sometimes can get cliquey like you are back in high school -Getting promoted up to store management may involve buttering up and being a "yes-person" -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

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