TJ Maxx reviews

- 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

Low pay generates high turnover and as such the workplace is typically a stepping stone for those fresh out of high school, new to the country, or retirees getting back into the workforce. Also, the employee discount hardly covers tax. If you want full-time work or benefits from the company you must accept a coordinator position or higher, so seniority doesn't play a factor in getting paid well or getting benefits or full-time work from the company. The "cost of living" raises are $.25 or so every year, and when the minimum wage was raised the last time people who were just hired after February were making more than people who had been working there for years, who had been set back to minimum wage because the pay is so low and the raises are so low. Short staffed.