After three years, I'm can't stop laughing on my way out. Thanks TCGplayer! - Fulfillment Center Associate TCGplayer Employee Review

-Very low pay for the type of warehouse job this is. Amazon and other warehouse-competitors can start you at a higher wage than TCG. They also can offer better career advancement opportunities for long-term employment. TCG team leaders and upper level management promise this and 'believe' they can do this for you, but very much fail to deliver. It will always be 'next week' or 'soon' for you. -They are growing at a pace that they cannot keep up with. Often times, people are put into leadership positions that their professional work ethic and mentality are not ready for, but are promoted because they fit the clique that upper management has. Many people have come into the 3-month contractor role as an inventory specialist that they were overqualified for, and either left for a better opportunity or just because the job bored them. -Management and team leaders alike dangle the possibility that you can get hired early into TCGplayer if you 'hit the numbers'. Early as in, they don't directly hire you into TCGplayer, but rather use an external hiring service to 'contract' you in. This means you are on a 3-month trial period without benefits or PTO. This also means that they guarantee you nothing as far as employment after those three months are up. -The 'contract role' is very much abused during the busy seasons like Christmas. TCGplayer hires extensively during that time of the year and pays bottom dollar to contractors as they take in massive profits. I've seen countless, well qualified achievers come into TCGplayer and do very well, get promised the world, and then get layed-off when the three months mark hits. No explanation, no logical reasoning, just the door. -The job is unbelievably tedious and monotonous. Your job as a 'fulfillment center associate' consists of a couple different tasks. For most in receiving, your job is to invoice playing cards that you receive from other TCG companies and put them away. That's it, all day, for 10 hours a day. At first it seems fun and interesting, you learn the card sets and all the cabinets. But over the weeks and months, your feet and back start to hurt from standing and then bending over 90 degrees very frequently. On certain days, 'pull teams' are assembled for your 10 hour day. This means, that for the entirety of your shift, you will be gathering these cards for orders. Imagine you had a list of cards on a white sheet of paper that were inside 25 different cabinets. These cabinets are in a large room and all spread out. Some drawers go as low as the floor in these cabinets, and your task is to gather the cards from these 25 cabinets and put them in a pile. Once your done, you grab the next list of cards and start gathering the next pile. All day. The funniest thing about TCGplayer is the leaderships inability to properly assess your performance. For years they have been developing a 'system' to track your time on task while you are in the building. It keeps changing and they have no idea if it works well or not. They say it does, but I've seen many people abuse the system and get away with it and many still do. When they use a system developed on google sheets to track your time all day you just know its bad. I can't help but laugh at how awful it was. -I dont think this place is very covid safe. You will be touching so many things and surfaces many other people touch frequently. Lots of people in the cabinet rooms breathing the same air and standing very close together. Not a huge deal to me, but maybe for some. -People can be stinky here. No offense, but if you are a 35 year old man that can't put on deodorant, brush your teeth, or shower, I really don't want to hear about how you spent the last few months completing the Pokedex on Pokémon Gold. I love the game, but I don't want to smell your BO. How are you 30-40 years old and wear the same clothes to work all week? I'm sorry but seriously some of ya'll stink. -You are working in downtown Syracuse. There are a lot of sketchy characters down in the city. TCGplayer provides you with a parking pass to a local garage, but it can be VERY sketchy. Countless times I heard of a co-workers car getting broken into, damaged, or a license plate got stolen. I've personally been asked for money more times than I can count, and seen way too many needles on the ground for my comfort. Luckily nothing ever happened to my car, but I also drove a rust bucket piece of junk with no appeal and never left anything inside. Friends and co-workers don't like this garage, especially not at 8pm when its down two-three blocks. NO JOKE they literally make it mandatory in training to learn about how unsafe it is where you are walking every morning and night. You are very much encouraged to leave the building in groups to "avoid a possible conflict" with homeless and sketchy characters that may follow you to your car. So if you want to worry about being attacked each night or possibly something worse, TCGplayer will proudly hand you a parking pass to park in the distant, needle-infested garage while the higher management get a very safe and comfortable garage under the building with a private elevator. -Too many people come and go here. It really makes me feel like their business management practices are immoral. The people that promised you the world last week smile at you as they terminate your contract or employment for no logical reasoning. I wanted to make this as detailed as I could for those looking into this place for employment. I was a wallflower for three years here. I have only stayed this long because I've managed to play the system on them for easy income while finding the right opportunity. It really wasn't that difficult, I mean my team leaders and managers were 24-35 year old children infatuated with toys and cartoon girls with large breasts so I bet you can see why it was a joke to me. Bottom line, this place is one of, if not the biggest comedy show I have ever had the priveledge to experience and get paid from. It's ran by children and it really shows all the way up to higher management. You can find a way better job than this place where you'll have professional adults around and above you. I had to give my two cents on the way out, I really couldn't resist a good laugh. Honestly getting to the end now, I really gotta thank TCGplayer for not only the basically free income, food and drinks, but the experience of watching children who think they are adults try to play business. Ill never forget how juvenile this place felt and ran. If "The People Success Team" wants to rebuttal my pro's and con's of TCGplayer, that would really be the cherry on top of this experience. I would honestly kill to see what this comical, downright ridiculous excuse for a "People Success Team" will say. Please prove to me that you only want to mask the truth behind what this place really is just one more time, it would really make this job experience that more laughable.