Hello /toy/ thought about applying for Toys R Us. Has anyone

>>6486736
Interview Process is fun.
Didn't get hired because of my school schedule though.

I worked there. It sucks desu, but you don't really get challenged, so maybe it's not so bad. Just don't expect too much.

>>6486736
Worked there 10 years ago back when "R Zone" was it's own enclosed section. It can be fun, depending on where they put you. It's kind of hell on earth if they stick you out on the floor to collect birthday club sign-ups. I'm not sure how different it is today, but the 3 biggest deals when you're a cashier was (1)selling protection plans for electronics, bikes, and larger items. (2)Selling batteries - and you're basically always expected to ask customers if they need them regardless of what they're buying requires them. and (3) asking if they want to sign up for the credit card/rewards card or whatever.

If part of the interview process is them asking to to sell them a toy, remember to suggest batteries at the end because the toy they'll ask you sell will usually require them.

It's a very basic job with plenty of ups and downs. Don't stay there longer than 2 years unless you're getting into management because it can get soul-crushing.

>>6486736
don't expect to be able to ask for time off from Oct 1 to the end of the year and know the worst Black Friday story you've heard will seem like a normal day compared to the shit you will see working it

Working retail sucks balls, universally. Working in TRU is worse because you are either dealing almost exclusively with parents (and their children) or /toy/ neckbeards.

Don't fucking do it.

My brother worked there during Revenge of the Sith so he could horde all the new Star Wars toys. He said others were doing the same with Transformers and other shit. Tons of product would never reach the floor.

>>6486736
Worked there 8 years, the job itself CAN
be fine (sorta), but it absolutely depends on who you work with and who your bosses are.

The company and the DMs are shit, the customers are shit, and Black Friday is turbo shit. The managers will do lots of underhanded things, especially when they need to cut hours (they used to give people lunches they never took, at our store), they treat anyone with knowledge poorly, and, yeah, you'll be expected to do eeeeeeverything. Because they'll always be shorthanded.

And if she's still around, fuck Coach PK.

It's a typical shitty retail job at a slowly-dying company whose higher-ups are completely incompetent. Expect to be pushing a LOT of credit card signups, and expect to come out of it never wanting to set foot in a TRU again.

Im going on two years there, eyeing other jobs though. If youre smart or a hard worker you will take up all the slack that everyone else is too lazy. Back of houss is alright, expect carry a lot of big shit. I build bikes and its miserable. I feel like a zombie most days and find myself killing time more than doing work anymore. Holidays are miserable, layaways are miserable, customers and employees are braindead. My hosue vary from 10-20 hours off season and it blows. Its a comfy part time job with shit pay

>>6488215
Also there are constant layoffs and any position higher than the store manager is a scummy fuck

>>6487898
Also TRUs retarded management hierarchy.

>>6488167
>fuck Coach PK
I would. But she IS gone.

I worked there for like 2 months, had a lot of fun and got along pretty well with the employees. Got stuck in the Imaginarium and Boys and girls section instead of the R zone where I applied to because another trainee decided to fuck around on a day that I missed training.
Had to wear the Geoffrey suit on my third day of work, so if your tall prepare for that burden. Just be aware that customers will be pushy and just kind of annoying, if you can tolerate that you'll be fine.

>>6486980
they have an inside deal on batteries
worthless assistant managers would ride your ass everyday "Say do you want batteries with your purchase, say it ALWAYS!"

>>6488560
Their also picky about how you arrange the battery shelves

>>6488560
I remember getting told every day how we weren't selling enough BPPS and batteries and assemblies. Got so suck of that shit.

Oh and they cut our hours cause another store in the location had gone over on THEIR hours, and they couldn't cut any of what they had. So we paid the price.

>>6488662
I actually enjoyed how crazy the christmas season was and liked black fridays because I was running the RZone and we had a really good group of people working there. Some real camaraderie. We were isolated enough from the rest of the store, and we were selling so many Wii's that we always had good BPP numbers. When January came around, and half my staff was laid off and I got my hours reduced to like 3 days a week, I got the fuck out of there. There's no real future in a job like that, but was fun while it lasted.

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>>6486736
Currently working there, in two months it will have been a year. No matter the position, you'll be expected to do things they don't mention in the job description. I'm a 500, which is the guys that bring down car seats, rideons, and bikes for customers who purchased them.
After the Christmas season, hours got cut drastically. I was lucky, I get 3 to 4 shifts a week, while 2 guys who have been there five years get 3 or even 1 shift. The job is physically demanding, you'll be expected to carry boxes that weigh up to 50 pounds for extended periods, and up to 90 pounds for short amounts of time. They say ask for help if you need it, but truth is everyone will judge you for being a bitch.
Coworkers can be hit or miss, my assistant manager is a true bro (she's a woman though) while our manager is lazy and depressing. As the muscle of the store, other departments treat us like their mules unless you make friends with them.
I found Black Friday so much fun, as I love multitasking and helping people. Customers can occasionally be dicks, but I live in Canada so that might help.
Be prepared for daily "e-learning" which is online based training that managers will give you shit for if you don't do every single shift.
As kind of a side note, I noticed that 90 percent of female daytime employees are obese, while the other 10 are skeltal. All the hot ones work evenings and weekends.

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>>6486736
I tested the waters as a seasonal cashier for like three months, and it really made me dislike Toys R Us as a company. Their practices are really lame and it was really annoying getting badgered to sell credit cards and protection plans because at the end of the day all that mattered to them was numbers and not how good of a service you could provide to customers. It was nice talking to people, a lot nicer crowd than a grocery store but still. Management left me with a headache so I decide not to sign up to stay after seasonal. Pretty sure I was one of their best credit card saleswoman though but likeeee fuck it. At least I get hugs whenever I go in there to hunt for the latest TRU exclusive...

>>6489523
After season they cut your hours drastically to get rid of you. It's nuts.

They do everything they can to not promote anyone, preferring to hire out better positions.

I remember they made a point not to tell anyone about their ETO rollover dates, too. Better people lose it than take it and get paid.

>>6489523
>you'll be expected to carry boxes that weigh up to 50 pounds for extended periods, and up to 90 pounds for short amounts of time
Get a u-boat, bitch.

I wish I had enough money to make a toy store and hire /toy/ soldier to man it. You guys are too good for this shit.

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I work for a supermarket and every time I see these threads I see the same old stories, stories that I see happening all around me.

Started at a 22yr no hoper going 30 at current job, once you get older they usually start cutting back your hours especially with studies commitments and a social life giving management reasons to stop giving you shifts, that said those who don't meet a certain standard ie not wanting to move up or just being a dick when department managers are about hastens things.

All in all people retail in general is a GOOD experience I shit you not, I'm a social retard and thanks to the job its not only taught me to just "talk" to people, bit of how retail stockings work but how to deal with assholes (I have social anxiety and during some situations I have full on panic attacks but I have the confidence to tell the known crazy guitar guy who stums for smokes to fuck off from store grounds now where's before I'd be shaking incase he were to talk to me).

If you want to make the job worth while make sure you're studying something in retail and prove yourself to management, Be a good worker, make the workload more efficient and actively CHASE promotion ie "look at how well I'm doing here", that said the mostly manual labor task may get you over looked so being a cashier *might* get you into better places, this is how I seen my co-workers advance, and those who became managers themselves would almost actively burn their co-workers just to chase that ladder (they even "forget" those who they were once under when they've surpassed them).

Now I bet you're wondering how a 30yr is still working at a supermarket let alone get a job at over 21, I applied for a role that can only be done by someone WITHIN school hours (meaning no competition, infact my "group" interview had me mixed with shelf stackers) and regulars rave to managers about how great I am as a person, not even trying for manager I just want an easy job and I got 36 hours of it in aus retail

Worked there for 3 months fresh outta high school during the holiday season. It wasn't too bad to be honest, the training we go was basically nonexistent and even worse I was stuck in the electronics department knowing fuck all. Too many questions, not enough answers.

But after a while it got easy. Even with the rush. Retail does suck though, you always get the worst people.

>New game system releases today at midnight
>a lot of preorders
>single mom comes in 10 minutes before closing
>all sold out
>causing a ruckus because screaming will magically make one materialize out of thin air
>have to stay late
>still have to lock up stuff
>feels bad

Continue looking for work while working here, get your education.

Never look back to retail.

>>6489843
Rare/exclusive/chase figures would never reach the shelves if you hired someone from /toy/. Not that that doesn't happen ready but it'd be worse.

>>6489876
Retail has taught me to lie. Lie to customers or you'll never be happy again...

>>6488167
Who's coach pk?

>>6486736
Got like 12 hours a week during the summer because they didn't really need me, but wanted me. Dull as fuck and you start to enjoy yelling at kid.

If you've had no prior experience would they still hire you?
I'm pretty patient with annoying people, and would like to stock stuff. Only problem is that I'm slightly autistic and only recently turned 18.

>ever wanting to work retail
>b&m stores will all disappear in the next several years
fucking capitalists. OP for the love of god, apply to any local government jobs they may have available even if it's cleaning up shit and hold on to it for dear life. no virgin toyfag discount is worth the dehumanizing element of working retail slaving away for our corporate masters selling useless, plastic shit to the dumb masses

>>6489523
I worked in 500 for two months too.

The employees were nice, the managers/bosses too. The girls were friendly, but compared to my new job it feels like we were all fucking robots only there to unload trucks and arrange the backstore while getting pick ups from time to time.

Also, i don't know if it's like that everywhere, but Jesus Christ how i had shitty hours. For a month straight i only did 8 hours a week. Even one of the bosses said he would have liked to see me more at work when they layed me off. That's rather shitty because he was a nice guy while it was always the autistic-looking guy who was there instead of him.

TL;DR: It's shit, but if you like working in a backstore and having to put back bikes on their racks, you could probably like it.

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>>6491075
I had no job experience and i was pretty much like you so if you're lucky they might hire you.

>>6489677
>Be me
>Someone calls a pick up for pic related
>The box is heavy as fuck and i'm as strong as cancer patient
>The boxes are FAR, FAR AWAY in the back of the backstore
>''Thank god it's someone at the front of the store so i can just take the stairs right in front of me... Wait''
>tfw it's a pick up in the back of the store and i have to walk all the fucking backstore with a heavy ass box

The job was shit, but it was like having a free two month subscription to the gym.

>watching kids fight over spinners when they first came in

>the collectors who come in every morning, always unkempt

>the impossibility of keeping the funko pop aisle organized

>people who do shopping last minute and get angry if we don't have it "in girl/boy"

>"how much is this?"
>price is on the label

>kids asking for fake products they saw on youtube

>the intense anger in moms' eyes when they run out of promotional freebies contrasted by their child's unawareness

>old people with long shopping lists who want a store tour in season

>>6490969
Lady who used to host the monthly Product Knowledge videos.

>>6488152
This is why they won't hire you if they find out you collect or recognize you as a frequent customer.

>>6491471
WRONG. Quit pushing this fucking stupid meme.

You being a collector has no bearing on whether they hire you or not. My managers knew I collected, hell, they appreciated that I could answer questions about shit in general.

Just don't be a spaz and for God's sake know how to read and you'll get hired.

Toys r us is the one place I see the most entitled acting customers demand people show them where things are or getting mad something is out of stock or demanding they go in the back to look for stuff

>>6488277
Lmao oh man, how is the Geoffrey suit? I always wondered what it's like to wear suits like that. Do little kids freak out or like attack you

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>>6489677
There's not always one nearby, or available. And when you're reorganizing or restacking, a uboat doesn't help.
>>6491150
No joke, I changed my diet to take advantage of the workout I get, and I have lost around 15 pounds and have recently starting gaining good muscle mass. I try to carry things in a way that gives me an all around workout. So there's that going for it. I noticed the guys who have been there for 4 or 5 years are all skinny and skeltal because they eat garbage (one guy never fails to not have 2 hot dogs for lunch, the others I've seen eat a bag of chips or a box of oreos for their entire meal) If they ate a balanced diet they'd be swole. Then again, they're all betas with bad facial hair. All they talk about is vidya and anime. One absolutely REEKS of body odor, I feel bad for customers when he does pickups or covers cash.

>>6486736
I'm not sure where everyone worked at, but don't get too sucked into the "It can be alright" or "It's fine if _____" shit.

I worked there for a winter, busted my ass more than any other worker, had to essentially learn because NOBODY wanted to teach me anything. Nobody taught me how to work the register, nobody taught me the proper order for how to clean the store. If there was a friend of the manager we were to stop whatever we were doing and make sure they were accommodated for at all times with two floor workers escorting them around and shit.

You will be massively understaffed for no reason, back of house is a clusterfuck of shit that has never been picked up. I found myself having to lug shit that required two or more people to carry alone. I ended up falling when the managers and co workers refused to help me get an escalade powerwheels down from the shelf.
They then proceeded to yell at me for getting hurt, cut my hours, and then when they needed someone desperately they always called on me. Ended up getting let go because I was a liability because I got cut when i fell.

To make shit worst the boss was a suicidal drama queen that made his problems everyone elses. He was over 50 by the way.

Fuck Toys R Us dude. My advice, find a government job, healthcare, anything and work the god damn mail room.

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>>6491150
Just realized i didn't post the good pic, must have been pretty tired last night.

Those fucking things, god damnit...

>>6491585
Nah, I just high fived people for like 20 minutes straight. Its extremely hot, apparently theres a fan in the suit, but my stores was broken so it really sucked. I'm really tall, so while the suit did fit it was a still kinda difficult to get in.

>>6491585
Also, the eyes of the suit are basically in the neck, so you have can't really control where the head is pointing

ive worked there for 3 years.
and 95% of the replies here are spot on.

i made the best of it because on my 2nd year i was promised a Full Time position at Baby Gear (worked at a side by side store)

But Management NEVER want to pay so they kept on promising and promising.

True about the collectors. I for one became spiteful of them so when the Green and White Legacy morphers came out , i bought the WHOLE stock.
They come in and i tell em , "some dude bought them all"

Amiibos. Dear GOD. People lining up at 7 8 am (store opens at 10 am) i walk in with work uniform and hide the ones i needed RIGHT AWAY. as soon as the doors open. im pretty secured. (D-Bag Move, i know, but i mean. Why wouldnt you? You have the access.)

Had great co-workers there some quit , some still there.

The seasonal team i was in we all quit after 2-3 years because hours suck, pay sucks, Customer Service sucked, CORPORATE suck.

>>6491150
>boxes say "team lift" on them
>they only schedule one BOH, one manager, cashier, and floor person for apparel
>they're all pussy ass weak women
>break back because no other choice

Swing sets were THE worst. And idiot customers were always surprised at the size...

Or my favorite, any time we'd bring out a power wheel: "I didn't think the box would be that big"

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Another fun story from a former employee
>Someone calls for bringing a jumparoo in the front for a customer
>Shouldn't be that bad
>Grab one of the boxes
>All the stuff that was in the box fall on the floor and me
>Oh shit.jpg
>All the boxes were open/destroyed
>Except one
>Grab it and take it to the front
>Customer says ''look at the tape it's been opened, bring me another one''

>>6491471
>>6491485
This. A plus is you might be the only one in the store who keeps up with new toys coming out and knows what the heck something is before people keep asking for them.

Is it going out of business?
Once in awhile I'll wander in if I'm running errands near by and it's a ghost town no matter what time or day of the week it is. Usually there's one kid playing video games with some employees while the rest are pretending to clean.

>>6492633
When i was on the floor(normally 1-2 hours before closure) it was calm most of the time, but there was some rushes from time to time so yeah there's still people going to Toys R Us.

But i think it got hit pretty hard when Lego opened an official store in the shopping mall right in front of the Toys R Us. I mean, why would i go there when i can get all the sets available right now, and accumulate VIP points for my next purchases?

>>6492633
Babies R Us has better business, if it's a combo store it won't look as dead.

Been at TRU for three, almost four years on and off. I started as a seasonal hire for back of house and my first day was Black Friday lol. I worked a couple of seasons at TRU and did film shit the rest of the time. I went back to to TRU as a part timer after season a couple of years ago.

I got sick and had to take eight months off. They took me off of payroll and rehired me when I got better, with a lower pay grade than what I had accumulated through raises. Kind of pissed me off. I was still physically weak, so they just had me help out with the events on weekends. When I got back to 100% health, I went to BOH very briefly before being offered a position in R-Zone as a cashier.

After doing that through last season, I stayed on as a part time cashier. We had a really great team built up and my awesome store manager( who was my manager since I got hired) got transferred.

My new store manager is awful and a few people quit, a LOT of shitty employees were transferred to other stores and I quickly worked my way up to one of the key carrying managers.

I mostly close the store now most days, which can be brutal depending on the day. I still enjoy talking with collectors about toys and I also really like helping people find what they're looking for. I put a lot of effort into making the guests feel welcome and appreciated even though that's not a company priority, because I know how shitty it can be when I go into a store and need help and there's no one around that gives two shits. So far, I haven't gotten yelled at about anything since I have some great people under me that will gladly do what I tell them and they can easily get metrics.

I do miss doing BOH stuff exclusively because you're really left to your own devices without really being bothered if you know what you're doing.

Our store is old as fuck though, and it looks like absolute garbage, even when it is perfectly put back together and clean.

Also I can answer any TRU related questions.

>>6492711
do you have eclipse glasses??

>>6492717
>do you have eclipse glasses??

lol, made me chuckle. I have three pair myself.

I've been answering the phones all week and I just lead off with "We're sold out of the solar eclipse glasses, how can I help you otherwise?"

>>6492711
Are the cash registers there the automated types that tell you what type of coins to use as change?
I spazzed out in my first (and only) job because I'm retarded and couldn't tell the difference between a dime and a nickel, and I'm interested in working at Toys r us.

applied there once, they did a GROUP interview and tried to hire a ton of people at once for 9 dollars an hour. Uhhh thats awful. Most companies start you at 12. don't accept that bull.

I got an offer but left.

>>6492878
>can't tell coins apart
I'm not an american but I can tell your coins apart from a glance, do you...look at the face of the coins or too scared to take that time even with a mountain put towards you?

Once I worked out which is which I put similar coins on top of each other so I don't need to look at their faces again, in sensible stacks ie dollars or half dollars.

I'm from Australia and I've never seen machines like that bar self serve, and self serve/money counter machines jam easily so they're more a burden than manual counting, just my 2 cents

>>6492878
Learn how to use money, spaz.

>>6492203
I'll ask what they're driving and have no problem just walking up front with measurements before I drag some huge box up there just to find out they've got a hatchback with two kids in the backseat and a load of groceries.

>>6492878
It tells you the change in numerical format (ex. change due: .69), when the receipt prints and drawer opens.
Sometimes that screen goes away fast.
I'm dyslexic and I don't have much problem, you need to practice it, it's still important to know even if most people use credit cards.

Any ideas for a Metro Squad kind of thing for Titan Trypticon?

>>6492203
>team lift
>pussy ass weak women

Anon, I'm currently worming as a trolley collector and I was taught by one of those types.

And at times at my work if a pallet needs to be moved I've asked 60yr women who work there just because its TEAM lifting, unless your knees are more fucked than your back the point is LESS load, if you feel you must take more of the load but for fucks sake if there are co-workers around you ASK them for help, if they cower out then don't do the job because OH&S won't save your ass when your back is fucked now or 10 years from now.

That said surely you can bring in more than one person more for a 2 person job or so, everyone but the cashier can be of assistance, they might have their own jobs but hay your back>your job

Sorry but I see co-workers discount the value of others due to sex and age and I'm pro equality, as in I'm that asshole that makes women and kids do the same as the guys as long as they're trained/I'm training them to do the task.

Jesus fuck

>>6492483
Speaking of jesus fuck I love assholes like this, should see their faces when I tell them straight up

>m8 I opened 20 of them, I can inspect the contents and show you, otherwise no sale as the others are in far worse shape

Most just cave in and buy it anyway

>>6489951
Kek that's what management is for, only "lie" I did was a regular customer giving me his store rewards card AFTER the transaction (because I forgot to ask because I'm human) and I just scanned it anyway.

He didn't know and couldn't tell despite me holding the change in my damn hands so I just shrugged my shoulders, scanned, said see ya later then voided the card.

I do lie to co-workers only because they expect me to have 8 arms and able to work in 3 departments at once, fuck you where I'm initially placed is important because front end service staff cop the heat before anyone else does

>>6486736
I work at Toys R Us right now, as an assembler.

Not bad. I wouldn't mind becoming a manager some day.

>>6495147
And then they'd run you off because that seems to be what they're best at doing.

Also they rarely promote anyone. So don't get your hopes up.

>>6494987
>Sorry but I see co-workers discount the value of others due to sex and age and I'm pro equality

Fuck equality. People aren't equal. That's why there's so many shithead that get hired and then quit showing up. And in my long ass time at TRU 98% of the girls hired aren't worth spit. It's a godsend if they're ever willing to lift a box.

>>6486736
How easy is it to fuck girls that work at Toys R Us?

>>6495147
Or they'll just lay you off after being a supervisor for near a decade because "restructuring".

>>6495165
And it's because people will not ask girls to do heavy lifting that gives them the idea they don't need to do it even if it's part of their jobs. It's not an inherent trait, and even small women can help you team lift.

>>6492483
>Someone calls for bringing a jumparoo in the front for a customer
what the fuck am I reading?

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>>6495729
It's this thing, a cashier called our department to bring one at the front of the store for a customer since we had a couple of them in the backstore.

>>6495628
>even small women can help you team lift.

Boy howdy is this wrong.

>>6495174
Depends on the girl and depends on how much of a man child you seem.

Fucked one coworker on her 21st birthday and I quit a month later. The next coworker she hooked up with knocked her up. Dodged a pretty big bullet.

>>6486736
What are even the qualifications to work there? Not seem like a creep?

>>6499936
Probably just be willing to work for so cheap, and generally be nice and professional. Two of my fellow 500's look like creeps, one has a patchy goatee and short cut hair, yet he's only like 21 and about 5' 8". The other guy has long blonde greasy hair, a terrible case of acne, and an even worse case of body odor. Both of them are skeltal. So obviously creepiness doesn't factor in.

>>6486736
I've been working here on and off for a few years. It's pretty fun at times, but mostly boring. Try to do the overnights if you can. Day times are okay too.

>>6498873
Scale of 1-10 what was she

I worked there for three months when I was 19.
It a lot worse than other retail jobs I've had. It's always understaffed, you'll always have to do 20 different jobs you didn't sign up for, they'll spring shit on you like having to come in for an hour on some event day or having to go to some other store to help out, then act like cunts when you say "Uh, no, I wasn't scheduled, I made plans already," like a normal person. They harp on about the store credit card and batteries and whatever other promotion they're doing more than ANY other retail place I've worked (which includes places like Best Buy and Target, and grocery stores).

It's shit, the customer base was trashy as fuck (but maybe that's just Texas) where they look gross and have no idea what anything is or what to do like they've never been in a fucking store of any kind before, and/or they'll have kids acting like monsters without the parents giving a fuck. I once had to stop the same 6 year olds from riding around on skateboards they took off of a shelf three times in one day. And that thing always happens that happens at retail places where an hour or so before closing suddenly that's when every indian/arab/mexican family storms in with children and infants ready to take their time wandering through the aisles.

I would suggest jobs at warehouses that aren't directly connected to an actual store, like a shipping center for Amazon or something. Those are much more friendly environments because no one ever has to deal with customers and thus no one has any real reason to be constantly angry.

Retail experience is the quickest way to become a cynical bastard, because these people that normal folks never have to deal with otherwise always show up at a store and you start wondering what the fuck is wrong with the human race that such creatures can reach adulthood.

>>6506501
7.25

>>6495174
I know at least 2 fat bald dudes who've gotten laid. 8.5 and a 6 with a nice rack respectively.
Meanwhile I'm not fat or bald but I don't really try to talk to any of the girls and I've gotten zero pussy.

>>6489548
>because at the end of the day all that mattered to them was numbers and not how good of a service you could provide to customers

Literally every retail company. I used to work at Party City and we thankfully didn't have to badger people for anything other than their email address, but if I spent 10 minutes helping a customer, I would get a 5 minute lecture on how shit wasn't getting stocked fast enough (because they'd order a hundred boxes of stock to put in our tiny storeroom, and then another hundred boxes of Halloween shit that we can't even start to put out for another month would arrive.)

>>6511939
>tfw when no longer working at retail
>worked at grocery store
>tired as fuck moving giant boxes of frozen meat around all day
>sit in break room with a book to read while i eat
>all female cashiers would try to take break once they saw me enter break room or go to log out of machine
>every break, any day, yonic jam
>bosses gets angry at me
I don't even consider myself good looking and currently feel really depressed because i was just rejected forever and ever last week

I really miss retail... at times like this.
>can't even feel good about flirty girls at various stores i go to because thats could just be them being paid to be friendly

>>6511481
Warehouse jobs are full of cunts as well. As long as you get a role that doesn't require human interaction you'll be good though.

>>6512614
I think what he's saying is that warehouses are better because you dont have to deal with a ton of stupid shitty people.
Warehouse jobs suck for different reasons, like making you always be in a hurry and overworking you. How co-workers there interact with you there is completely random, but at retail you will always have many shitty people.

Personally, I prefer either. I don't mind shitty people. They're good for a laugh and for entertaining stories later.

>>6500701
shit like this weirds me out on the selection process and the dredges that actually apply.

Why do people want so bad to apply to places that are their hobby?
I may understand other places, but TRU?

Do you really spend that much time at TRU talking with random people about toys or is it just to buy cheap toys?

>>6511481
This is the typical TRU experience.

>>6516508
my typical TRU experience is
>walk in
>maybe a worker notices me to say Welcome
>walk to LEGO aisles to see what MegaBloks and McFarlane are doing
>walk to action figure section to see anything interesting
>get to collector aisle
>scan and move section around to see what's new
>maybe buy something
>sometimes get recognized by manager with friendly manner
>leave
Usually I get there an hour or half an hour before it closes, so it's mostly empty with a few employees tidying up slowly.
Pretty uneventful and chill compared to other stores i go to.

>>6512600
Eh, higher end stores actually value customer service. Unfortunately, you often times need to have dedicated your very being to being a god of customer service to get a job at places like Nordstrom.

>>6517968
Wat?

My sister worked at Nordstrom and I knew an acquaintance from HS who worked there too.

They're both assholes and neither of them were anything special when it came to helping customers.
In general, I've never experienced anyhting above the norm at Nordstroms compared to other department stores.

Probably the friendliest most helpful stores I've ever been to are grocery stores and Barnes and Noble.