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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

Amen!

I used to work at TRU and it is true that a majority of the employees don't really know about toys. But the real travesty is that TRU truly does not care about its employees. One time I was told by my manager that if I did not like my schedule I could quit and get a job somewhere else. In truth, it was only one manager. Not all of them were like that. Some actually did praise you when you did well. But still...

Anytime I go in to a TRU now the majority of employees are completely incompetent, regardless of location. Thank God there are some, vert few, knowledgeable people working there.

Oh yeah, hey Runamuck, the best thing about working TRU is the "personal layaway", yes?

As long as you aren't off two days in a row. Yup

And while I love the fact of employees who know what they are doing there. I just tend to hate the fact the ones who take the time and care to help customers right get reprimanded. It's not all managers, but often enough sadly it's the ones with real power, whereas the ones actually out in the 'trenches' who know who's a good keeper or not, often enough are ignored. While the ones with power don't ever even come out on the floor to work. Just stay up in their nice lil offices, conference calls, walking out to ring to look like they do work near their lunch break.

And the worst thing I hate about them, telling employees they need to come up to ring, and then repeatedly bombarding them with asinine stuff while they are trying to do their job that they just asked them to do. Or harassing them verbally because the manager has an inferiority complex about what you know about the stuff they sell that they don't. Etc. I've seen managers question the intelligence of employees of whether or not they could read, or even bemoan said employee to customers just because they are giving them good service. It's laughable how my stores locally treat employees and customers. At several of my local stores, I can easily point out a list of who needs to be fired, trained better, or transferred. It's not even that hard to spot. But corporate won't do crap about it. Even though they have about 3-5 actual liabilities going on constantly.

I can't work for the TRUs locally. If I ever did, the first words out of my mouth when they try any of that crap would be 'You do know this state's employment laws right? Cause if you keep this up, I'm going to sue.' I've dealt with it before at other jobs, and have learned nothing changes unless you make an effort for it to change. Which obviously they don't like either.

Actually, sounds like a good idea, and would actually teach TRU to start paying attention to who they promote, and start promoting people who can do the job as opposed to promoting those who create liabilities so they can be sued. When the lawsuits start happening, I'm just going to laugh at TRU.
It's already happened once for not following child labor laws in several states. It was a class action lawsuit about in either 2001 or 2004 or both.