Burnt out. Not worth it. - Backroom Associate HomeGoods Employee Review

I have been working here for 6 years and until they were forced to pay more for minimum wage I had been working for the lowest wage I could’ve gotten which at the time was $12 with pay raises being from a minimum of 1 cent to 10 cents maximum. You could work as hard as you want but at the at the end of the day it doesn’t matter because you get a 800-1200 piece truck every day with the pallets stacked like Jenga towers after the game is over or they are stacked too high. I have gotten hurt here and only two higher ups knew until two days later and told me that I was gonna have to use my sick days to cover a major concussion followed by the person at company’s health insurance telling me that “I shouldn’t have been hired and shouldn’t be able to work there anymore”. Nothing ever gets finished because of the crazy amounts of product that come in and usually we have to play Tetris every day to fit the pallets in to receive another 24-25 pallets on top of what we already have. Overall since the company has tried to chase high profits by increasing the amount of items that need to be processed and lowering the amount of actual processors it has become a miserable job and not worth the pain.