door shift is exhausting - Anonymous employee TJ Maxx Employee Review

4.0
15 Jan 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

food in break room sometimes and extremely flexible in schedule, good managers for the most part

Cons

i have just recently started doing door and its very exhausting, all you do is stand there welcome people in and count people in due to covid. its ok and sometimes even nice but after the 3rd or 4th hour i feel like im going crazy just starring outside, yes we do get breaks but sometimes they forget and doing it for your entire shift up to nine hours is a huge part of me quitting. i genuinely did love my job before this but i now all i do is door but one day out of my work week and it just takes a much bigger toll on my mental health standing for so long doing nothing for hours at a time, i talked to my manager asking to switch out with other coworkers halfway or even every other day but nothing has happened . i understand i signed up for this job but if i knew it would turn into this i never would have taken it. im going to miss my coworkers so much but i dread work now and it feels so unnatural. i really hope tjmaxx does something about this because i know im not the only one leaving because of this also (the location isn't accurate i just am to nervous to put mine)

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Cons

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4.0
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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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