Trader Joe's reviews

--Predictable duties --Often poor management (no communication/too many control freak prima donnas/managers constantly being transferred) --Pretense to being open to communication --Cutting hours for crew members while giving massive raises to three tiers of management (we need to survive, too!). Money saved on payroll goes into managers' pockets. --Daily schedule that makes one feel like a robot --Very secretive company/lots of gossip, hurt feelings --Constantly changing the game rules/moving goal posts (i.e. once you start making over $14/hr they start nit-picking everything you do to keep from giving you a 50 cent raise, including lies). A union would not tolerate this. -- Difficult for bad performers to be fired. They will very rarely fire a manager unless it's for discrimination or harassment. Instead they get transferred to another store, perpetuating the problem. -- The customer is king/queen and can be as abusive as they want. Management will never help you. Often times blaming you for any problem.

Once you are hired on as a part time crew member it is almost imposible to move up to a full time crew member. You may have a B.S. in management, A.S. in Culinary Arts, years of experiance as a manager, the blessing of the entire part time crew, and the desire but that is no guarantee that you will be taken seriously about going full time. The pay is not that great at the part time level and there is also no guarantee that you will be schedualed 40 hours a week. This fact leaves part time crew members trying to support their families in a very diffecult position.