Has Anyone Worked at Toys R Us before?

[Computer-Geek]

They are hiring and i may apply but I would like to know a brief description on how it is to work there and what the basic pay is. I am trying to get a job so i can finally mod not that my parents don't have money or anything but they recently renovated our kitchen so i'm not going to bug them for a little while. you can post other jobs i may be able to work at if you wish. Thanks in advance :D

[xRyokenx]

I'd assume it's like any other dept. store, cashier, "wandering around general employee," janitor, etc. The pay probably isn't too much more than minimum... just to give you my general idea of it. If you're up for hard work and not much pay, then you could do fast food, although I don't recommend it. You could always ask them what the starting pay would be for the jobs they have.

[slytherock]

Best summer job I had was Pizza delivery :) All summer long, ridding my car, listenning to my music, eating pizza ;) delivering pizza to my friends houses...
but in those time the gas was really cheap.

[Computer-Geek]

oh yeah i'm only 16 so no driving without a parent or my older sister :(
I may go look around and may call toys r us to check the basic pay.

[Elenril]

i haven't worked there, but my friend did, and she said she hated every moment of it, she found it really boring. but maybe it's just not her thing. as far as i know the pay was pretty average for her age (15/16), not bad but not great either. then again, this is australia, so it may be different.

seeing as it's not a bad job, i wouldn't be too picky. it's better than maccas, and way better than nothing.

[Drum Thumper]

If nothing else, you'd be able to peruse the toys and figure out what can be kit bashed and what can't!

[Aero]

that might not be too bad. Reason being kids know what they want. Parents either say yes, or no. You don't have to explain much. I just started at Sears in the tools department, something I thought would be fun. Boy was I wrong. People come in "I want a drill"...we carry about 50 drills. You tell them a few things to help them decide, and they get confused and want to be left alone to think about it, and then walk away. I really suck at this selling thing :P

[xRyokenx]

You could ask them what they need in a drill, if they don't know, well... tell them here's a good one for a good price, etc. People are retarded a lot of the time, even me sometimes, I don't do good around people I don't know, I'm not much of a cashier, I'm good at it, but I get nervous. People get violent over food, don't do fast food. I had two orders to pack, the guy on drive thru took an order and then went into the back to take another, go figure, but this one woman was almost screaming at me to pack hers, I calmly told her to f*** herself, just kidding, I calmly told her to wait a moment, let me finish this, and then I got hers. Another day this woman walks in, stands there for a whole while of ten seconds and complains about not being served yet when I was up front alone packing a bigass order. Fast food sucks, never work there except as a last resort, the pay sucks, the work isn't glorified, it too tough for the pay, a lot of crap people work there, just don't do it to yourself.

[Drum Thumper]

that might not be too bad. Reason being kids know what they want. Parents either say yes, or no. You don't have to explain much. I just started at Sears in the tools department, something I thought would be fun. Boy was I wrong. People come in "I want a drill"...we carry about 50 drills. You tell them a few things to help them decide, and they get confused and want to be left alone to think about it, and then walk away. I really suck at this selling thing :P

Instead of telling them, ask them what they're gonna use the drill for. And repeat everything they say that is important in your own words.

Also, remember that every blank stare, 'no thanks, just looking' or anything along those lines just brings you that much closer to getting a yes.

Sales is tough work. I did it for a couple years, and learned alot about myself in the process.

[Spawn-Inc]

dunno about working there but i go there to buy games and reserve games. its where i got my wii.

[Computer-Geek]

hmm i'm not sure if i will apply there yet and theres a walgreens near me i may apply at over the weekend or something. Thanks for the tips and stories everyone :up:

[TheGreatSatan]

I worked at T.R.U. about 12 years ago for 7.50/hr. I worked in Action figures, R/C cars and other boy's toys. I got a bit aggrevated because they base their toy facings on the popularity of a product. Each tag has stars on it. The number of stars (No More than 5) are the minimal number of facings a product has. 5 stars means at least 5 facings. So what if there's only 1 in stock? Then there's 4 empty spots on the shelves!! It was annoying because they'd get pissed if you filled them with something else!

And your employee discount doesn't count towards, X-Box, PS or any other gaming system.

[xRyokenx]

How dumb. I've always hated how stores have the LEGOs set up. They don't have (m)any good sets in stock, those you have to order, and they have the better ones, if they have any, way up top where you can't reach them... that reminds me, it's been for freakin' ever since I got a LEGO set and just built it. That's what I'm gonna go do, maybe, get a bigass LEGO set and build it.

But yeah, that had to be retarded for the facings, etc. Everywhere has it's retarded quirks. Oh, I got offered to stay but declined, I need somewhere more challenging and applicable to what I want to do, I'd also like to learn something new... like how to make something. I also want to learn to play some sort of guitar, but that'll be something to save up for or something like that. /ramble

Wow, I got OT...

[TheGreatSatan]

Any Office Depot's in your area? GREAT place to work with ton's of Bonus possibilities!

[Computer-Geek]

theres none of those too close to me thanks for the suggestion though.

[ghoul]

i currtely work at toys r us in austrila im on night fill so i genuarly jsut come in when the store is closed and fill the stock onto the shelfs its not a bad job but its not the best either, well its a lot better than say dominoe si worked there to and it sucked. as for pay i get 9.04 % (au) an hour and im 16 not sure what that is american.

it sorta mmatters on the managers my old manger sucked so much and made me redo everyone and got angry all the time, but my new manger letws me listen to music while i work and stuff so its sorta ok.

[Computer-Geek]

Thanks for the info :D these (https://jobsearch.unicru.com/JLoJobResults.aspx?rscid=8eeb7c500ff3338700e4f83aa 87cc5ce&slf=ba9d164ad51a474cba78c7225371364c&RP=CR)are the jobs they are offering there .

[haha49]

Instead of telling them, ask them what they're gonna use the drill for. And repeat everything they say that is important in your own words.

Also, remember that every blank stare, 'no thanks, just looking' or anything along those lines just brings you that much closer to getting a yes.

Sales is tough work. I did it for a couple years, and learned alot about myself in the process.

pff its easy... you just have to know how to aproch people and most of the time when someone is in a store they are eather thinking about buying or buying..
key things to ask are

what is the acplication
do you have a brand preferance
and how much do you want to spend

with that info then make suggestions on what you think they may like.. and if you dont have it check the system and try to find it in say another store ect alot of custmers will see that you put in that extra effort and come back to you..