If you like monotony, here's the place for you. - Sales Associate Toys "R" Us Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Well, I guess if you still like playing with toys then it could be a great place to work. Other than that, it's just a paycheck. Though fellow employees do make it a fun place to work.

Cons

It can quite boring. Unless you're given a project by a supervisor you're pretty much stuck just putting away all the reshops (whole carts of toys just waiting to be put back when customers don't want them). Either that or just wandering the aisles straightening and picking up toys off the floor left by some dumbasses who abuse the price checker like it's some kind of new and amazing technology they've never seen before and leave a pile of toys waist-high on the floor. Then, after you've spent 10-12 minutes clearing out the area, putting everything back and straightening the aisle customers managed to completely rearrange by sticking all manner of things in every nook and cranny, you go back 5 minutes later to see it was all for nothing as a whole new group of 'em are lining up by the same price checker and leaving whatever they don't want right there on the floor. They'll even look at you as they're doing it too, almost like they're trying to challenge you to say something so they can go off on you. Idiots... What's worse is when you have a psycho supervisor (who feels the only way to get people to do something is by yelling at them) coming up from behind wondering why you're not doing your job and picking up the crap that's on the floor, not knowing I had just spent 12 minutes of my life doing exactly that. After you're done explaining yourself, and having them still thinking you were slacking off, you take your lunch and come back and do it all over again until the end of your shift. Yay!

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5.0
Apr 21, 2026
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Pros

Best job ever, I was able to play with toys all the time. I usually stayed late to open boxes, and play, then I put them back in boxes like nothing happened and then go home, my wife always thought I was cheating because I was late, sometimes 3AM, but I just can't stop playing with toys, it was awesome.

Cons

My wife didn't like my job. She hated when I was late.

3.0
Jul 11, 2026
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Pros

It was an ok job for the time

Cons

the customers were very annoying and we were treated like babysitters

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