Job is cool, people are not - Cashier TJ Maxx Employee Review

2.0
Jan 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- discount - simple tasks/easily manageable - recovery, talking to customers, the good stuff - the few cool coworkers

Cons

- the few "uncool" ones (including management) that get pissy (for a lack of better words) when you ask questions or ask for help, they cut you off and try to assume what you need because them listening fully to your problem takes up too many seconds when they're severely understaffed - or you get the coworkers who do not bother with a conversation but will just do your job for you aka no training (the cashier lead specifically) - no one trains, esp not the managers. (at all or maybe it was just the cashier position) it wasn't until my 3rd-4th week when another cashier ran through the list of things to do as a cashier when you aren't checking out people (I had been working two days a week atp so why it took almost a month to be "fully trained" idk.) -management and schedule makers will try to pull one over your head and schedule you for more than you asked either by a few minutes or a few hours (I could tell the intention was you either fold and work those hours as opposed to losing your job and them losing a worker, or try and fight for the hours you want- but they won't do it so you end up leaving anyway (and the schedule makers/ managers are grown adults doing this.) perhaps because they get away with doing it to teenagers and other grown adults who are desperate enough bc they have bills to pay every month

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5.0
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Pros

Flexible work schedule, good management, variety of work to keep you from being bored

Cons

Communication between management and associates is sometimes insufficient

4.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

-flexible and accomodating hours - good partime job for college student - very neutral experience, but the fact that it wasn't terrible makes it a pro -10% employee discount

Cons

-lower pay than other retail places ($12 when I was there) - general cons that just come with retail (rude customers, boring tasks, etc.) - store is constantly being rearranged, and is also disorganized on purpose so customers have to search through/look at more things to find what they are looking for -CONSTANTLY having to push the TJ Maxx credit card and having managers literally walk by to make sure you are - can't wear t-shirts or any graphic tees including ones in the store (which always bothered me because if they can sell it I should be able to wear it)

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