[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Kernel

First things first I hope you had a full recovery and that you filed for workers compensation (and disability benefits from social security if you were out of work long term). Dealing with the public is often an excercise in patience.
Thanks for the info... kind of ruins my childhood dream of getting into a TRU at night and having free range to get whatever the hell I want lol. Seems to me like your best bet is to order anything you REALLY want early online, especially when it comes to legends. I'm also glad I just casually collect 6" figures as I'd be broke if I didn't.

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Originally Posted by Weapon X

Jesus, I can't believe that happened to your head. Are you doing okay now? No lasting effects?

Thanks for typing this detailed description. It's very helpful and I will have to remember it in the future when I get the itch to work there again.

Thanks for the concern. That was over ten years ago, and I recovered pretty quickly from the injury, although I did miss about a week of work thanks to effects from the concussion, the worst of which being nausea and migraines. Outside the 4 and a half inch scar that I have on the top of my forhead (which is thankfully covered by my hair,) I haven't had any long term effects that I can remember. TRU paid all of my bills and compensated me completely for the time lost, which I think they did more because they were afraid of a lawsuit than out of genuine concern. (We were doing some construction inside the store, with no safety gear such as hard hats, and another employee had suffered a similar injury just 3 weeks earlier.) Hindsight being 20/20, I should have went "full retard" on them and sued their pants off.

TRU was especially strict during the overnights. The warehouse was caged off, and only receiving clerks and managers carried badges to get into the cage. When Xbox 360's, Zune MP3 players, FX lightsabers, and boxes of diapers and candy bars start to disappear from the inventory though because employees have free, unsupervised reign during the nights and days, it became a necessary evil. During my 14 months there, we fired no less than 10 different employees for internal theft for snaking stuff out of the warehouse, and wrote up several others for simply being in there when they shouldn't have. There were cameras EVERYWHERE in the back, yet people would STILL try to steal stuff. It just left me shaking my head.

Keep in mind that my experience was unique to myself, and I don't know if this is how it is at other TRUs out there. To anyone thinking of a career in retail, there's nothing wrong with it, but just remember that often work is what you make of it, and varies wildly depending on what the employer dictates down on you. No matter what though, the experience will always be different on an employee by employee basis.