r/tjcrew

1. Filling up the child seat portion of the cart with about 30-40 items and only two little items in the large bottom of the cart. Bonus points when they leave the plastic seat down so the glass items can roll right out and break.
2. The customer who will not let go of the cart at register. Never.
3. The customer who chats pleasantly while watching you scan and bag up everything they have. Then you tell them the total and they rummage around for a few minutes before finally find their checkbook. Then they have to find a pen even though you offer them one. Then they realize they haven’t balanced their checkbook for a while so they have to find their calculator so they can do the math. Then they ask how much the total was even though you’ve told them at least twice that we can print the check for them, saying “I don’t trust that.” The length of time this takes is always equal to how long the lines are.
4. The customer who wants to stand right next to you and watch you scan everything no matter how many times you tell them that they’re supposed to be on the other side of the counter.
5. The customer who can’t understand why they can’t do their own self-checkout. And gets really pissed about it.
   That’s all I can think of for now.
   Anyone else?

I saw a video of someone moving a ladder while someone was on it and they fell HARD (not a TJs). A good majority of the customers at my store are rude and entitled. I fear that one day while I’m on a stool someone’s going to run their cart into me and I’m going to fall or move it while I’m reaching

Idk why I think it’ll happen. I had a customer put their cart directly behind me and as I stepped down I got my foot caught in it and almost ate shit

It’s a dumb fear of mine

I had a woman whisper to me at the register today “Your colleagues are in the way.” I asked her what she meant and she said that everyone was stocking in places she wanted to shop. I held back my laughter. She said “Don’t you guys stock the shelves once a week?” HAHAHAHAHA no.

I told her we have to do it every day due to how busy we get. She rolled her eyes and changed the subject

lol go to stop n shop if our job is that much of an issue for you

How many are struggling to keep insurance while getting their hours cut?

So sick of working in a career where we’re expected to be perfect, WOW to every customer, and tolerant of customers bullshit. Happy to be kind to my pleasant customers, wish I could tell the unpleasant to fuck off. 4 years of being patient, kind, and helpful at my expense with no compensation or tip. I’m at the point where if a customer approaches my register on the phone and doesn’t speak to or acknowledge me, I won’t waste a single breath on them. I can’t wait for the day I can clock out and never step foot in my store again.

I've noticed the trader joes in Brooklyn are all around the DUMBO area and that DUMBO seems to be fairly expensive. I work in Colorado and make 26.50 and found out by looking at zillow the only 2 bed 1 bath apartments I could afford in the area would be a 45 minute subway ride away from DUMBO. If you work at one of these stores I'm curious how much you consider a living wage and how far from your store you live. Also vaguely considering moving to NY in a year but that's a hypothetical.

Store’s captain asked me if I needed anything during our 1 month review meeting and I asked if he could order me a zip up hoodie (I get cold easily so I’ve been wearing my one and only BRIGHT green hoodie everyday to work) and he said okay will do. It’s been a month since I asked him and haven’t gotten anything I don’t know if he forgot or not. 2 weeks ago I finally asked a mate again to order me one he said I have to fill out a slip and wait for the morning mate (never seen because I work evenings) to order them because they’re in charge of ordering uniforms. Meanwhile I’ve resorted to ordering some hoodies off depop ugh💔

I admit, I get annoyed when people demand that the gallon of milk goes in a bag. I always overload that bag. 🙊 What are y’all’s petty revenges at inane requests?

Everyone’s always saying they’re sick of management doing this or captain doing that…. I honestly don’t have a problem with any of that stuff. The job actually wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for this huge problem. The only 2 people I do genuinely enjoy talking to I only see once a week for 1-2 hours at a time. And tbh, I don’t really think I’d keep contact with them if I left so we’re not that close. The rest of them, I feign interest but over time, it’s gotten harder and harder to hide how much I don’t like my coworkers. And now I just feel like work is work and it’s becoming increasing difficult to get through the day knowing I have no one to talk to genuinely.

When I started 2 years ago , I had like 3 or 4 friends that would make the day just fly by. They all left and now it’s just me and people I’m not crazy about. Guess I need a change in my life

so I rang up this customer today and she told me she had a crew member discount but that she left her phone in the car. i follow up with “okay. do you have it memorized?” and she was like “no” and i said “okay there’s no way i can do anything without the code”. she seemed understanding at this, nbd. so we’re just talking and she proceeds to tell me how her daughter works for the company (that’s who’s discount she was wanting to use) and how busy her store is for mother’s day. she says that her daughter works at a store in texas which grabs my attention as i am in california. i proceed to say explain to her that she is technically not supposed to be using her daughter’s discount because that’s not how it works and explain how the discount works. i’m not sure what her daughter told her but she proceeds to try to argue with me about it. she stares at my name tag and lingers on it like it’s a threat (she also used my name and mispronounced it lol). so i tell her basically if she goes around telling people her daughter works at a store in texas we can’t give her the discount because that puts our jobs at risk because of integrity whatever the whole spiel. after all of this, i try to clarify and help her out by saying “do you know what i mean?” and she rudely says “no” and storms off. god forbid we try to maintain integrity. anyways i just don’t get people sometimes

Alright, non-boot lickers: How is everyone feeling? Getting your hours cut? Seeing folks getting preferential treatment? Lots of mates standing around talking? Getting crushed on Saturdays with no extra pay?

How long are we going to accept that the rule book is bullshit and a ***lot*** has to change for this to be a good company again?

Thoughts and feelings below.

I was doing final cart run and was like "oh great, they're gonna be shopping 'til like 9:30"

To my absolute shock, they got 2 carts so they could speed blitz each half of their shopping list. It was like 9:07 and they were both done and out the door! They weren't even the last person shopping!

Why can't every person who shops last minute like this be that awesome? I think they actually made the last person in the store realize the time and hurry her shopping along too!