Trader Joe's reviews

after working here for a year I am left with chronic pain due to poor workplace safety management. The prioritization of customer experience over everything often comes at the expense of crew members and contributes to high turnover. There is a split amongst those working: either those that have been there for 5+ years or less than 18 months. Very few people in between. Recent cuts to benefits, shirking of covid-19 precautions, and failure of management to address crew concerns has soured the experience. Promotion to mate requires going above and beyond for months/years without any additional increase in pay and is up to the discretion of captains and mates. There is little recourse for workplace harassment, especially when it comes from another employee. There is no HR and no viable protection from retaliation for reporting.

Benefits continue to get whittled away every year, corporate cares more about union busting than they do about keeping their workers happy, workman’s comp is run by a cheap company that won’t effectively treat your injury, major wear and tear on your body over time, poor safety standards in the store, feedback from unreasonable customers can prevent you from getting a raise if they write an email to corporate, lack of clarity on job expectations and requirements for promotion, almost no parental leave allowed and none of it paid, many life circumstances can cause you to lose your health insurance because your right to it is entirely based on hours worked, lots of turnover amongst the crew which means you’re constantly doing extra work to train them and make up for their inevitable mistakes, new hires constantly making more money than veteran crew members, no way to get an increased raise based on merit or seniority, no sick pay, vacation time accumulates very slowly