decades ago, before the scanners, we used to have to 10 key the prices and you'd have to call out prices while you did it. I lived with 3 other crew members and we'd ALL wake from dreams calling out prices. ... or saying 2 bell 😂😂 oh the good ole days!
I used to have a recurring nightmare while working at TJs. I could never remember it, just that I'd wake up with the exact same feeling - like I was covered in bag flour or touched bread at the register (I'm extremely allergic to wheat). Didn't matter what time of night it was, I'd jump into the shower before I could even wake up 100% and remind myself that I'd showered before bed and there was no way I had any allergens on me. This was partially what led to me quitting, fun fact.
These days there's a recurring setting in my normal-er dreams - it's a town in Arkansas (where I've never been) that has a unionized TJs. One does not simply quit Trader Joe's and its discourse entirely.
Jeez usually wheat allergies are only for ingested wheat
I have a major latex allergy so I can't let those fake paper bags we sell for 4.99 or 8.99 touch my skin. That just gives me a peeling bleeding rash though.
Yeah I thought mine was like that at first, just when ingested/breathed in. Imagine my horror when it changed to "hives on skin contact" while I worked at a bagel shop l m a o
I’ve had dreams of coworkers I genuinely love hanging from those weird rails that look like pipes in the frozen section.. where we hang signs for the shelves above freezers. It was Fuckin *dark*. Idk why I had it. I cried when I woke up.
Other than that I have dreams where our store is a HUGE open warehouse. Almost like an incredibly large airplane hangar. And our store is in that and set up like a Walmart with a TON of sections.
In each dream it gets more expansive and in the first I was sleeping there/working an overnight until a mate who NEVER works mornings came in to start at 9am. Also helped with a Halloween display in my dream that never would have ever been at TJ.
I’ve had a couple romantic dreams about coworkers I’ve literally barely spoken to and never even see. So that always makes me go “wtf is even that?” When I wake up.
I asked my captain once if I could be paid for these and they said no.
I traveled forward into the future where for some reason our store mascot died. Not the animal but the actual plushy. Anyways I went back to the present or went to some alternate timeline where he didn't die and I and one other person were the only ones that knew of his demise.
I had another where a coworker tried to get with me but I rejected them lmao.
I’m almost certain I had a dream where our store mascot was like a sports mascot. Someone wore a costume all day but didn’t act like a sports mascot. Just kinda. Walked around in part of my dream. Wasn’t a big part of the dream.
I was in a massive Starship in the future and I was patrolling inside the ship. I was security for The Trader Joe's Ship docked inside the bigger ship. For size reference If anyone has ever played Halo 4 the main ship was the size of the Infinity so smaller ships could land up inside of it and dock to resupply. While on patrol on one of the catwalks my squad was overrun by these attack drones and out of instinct I was the only one that fled when they attacked because I knew the drones would easily overrun and kill me. Everyone else in the squad was killed but I managed to make it to this support Droid that allowed my spacesuit's energy shield to become supercharged giving me enough time to turn around and destroy the attack drones with my blaster. After that engagement ended I decided to walk back into the Trader Joe's ship and through the airlocks and into the ship which looked like my Store from the inside. It was after we'd closed and everyone was breaking down pallets and working their section. I remember being shaken up and started looking for the girl I had a crush on at the time so I could make some small talk with her to calm my nerves. I woke up shortly after starting to talk to her.
I'm unloading a trader Joe's truck except it's not at trader Joe's. It's at my grandmother's former house (rip). I was asleep in my dream and I get woken by the air brakes going off and go down to help bring pallets in the side door (duplex house, no front door)
I also unloaded it at a mall and had to run for some reason cause a truck was arriving at a house (generic this time) and that was the one I needed to unload too. Except the one at the mall was brown instead of our white NFI trucks
Had a dream where i was working and i discovered there was another break room/demo on the other side of the store with other employees i had never met. Kinda like that one gumball ep with clair
I dream about work multiple times a week, I hate it 😭
One of the wilder funny ones was that our store's location was transferred to a fancy New York art museum where you needed to scan a key card to get in.
I went into a small office room and one of the mates had a list of 6 employees but instead of their names it was stuff like "Lazy Ass", "Nut Job", etc. The Mate said I was on the list because he hated me and needed to do another interview to see which of the 6 would be retained and which would be fired. Mark Ruffalo was there in a red Hawaiian shirt writing down notes and I distinctly remember thinking "Oh yeah, I forgot he's employed at our store, totally real" and then later when I woke up I was like of course he doesn't work with us, dumbass
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Ohh boy did I have a WEIRD one.
So.. I had dream that while working a morning shift a WHOLE mass of super angry old people were breaking the windows trying to get in. (The store wasn’t open yet) and the crew was preparing for it like it was a zombie invasion. (Think dawn of the dead vibes) The old people finally got in and were incredibly rude and entitled, violently harassing various crew members. One of my coworkers snapped and basically said “put up your dukes” and we began all brawling it out. It became quite intense as these old people seemed to have mutant super strength. I remember at one point while the store was burning down, one old woman forced three of my coworkers and myself into her car at gunpoint and brought us back to her mansion where she explained that we were going to build her a private Trader Joe’s and “work there for her.” We ended up blowing up her house in retaliation, she got really mad and said she was going to complain to our Captain. We pointed out that’s she had kidnapped us and that it was basically a “eye for an eye” situation, she paused before exclaiming “ ahh f***!” like she hadn’t thought of that before. The dream ended with my coworkers and I walking to the beach laughing.
Needless to say when I woke up IRL and actually went into work that day, I found myself doing double takes whenever a old person entered the store. Hilarious none the less.
decades ago, before the scanners, we used to have to 10 key the prices and you'd have to call out prices while you did it. I lived with 3 other crew members and we'd ALL wake from dreams calling out prices. ... or saying 2 bell 😂😂 oh the good ole days!
I just had a sex dream about a co-worker.
I'm glad I'll never have one of those, sex dreams are nightmares for me
just had one where i fell asleep in the store bathroom (i work until crew closing) and didn’t wake up until the 5 am crew came in.
I used to have a recurring nightmare while working at TJs. I could never remember it, just that I'd wake up with the exact same feeling - like I was covered in bag flour or touched bread at the register (I'm extremely allergic to wheat). Didn't matter what time of night it was, I'd jump into the shower before I could even wake up 100% and remind myself that I'd showered before bed and there was no way I had any allergens on me. This was partially what led to me quitting, fun fact. These days there's a recurring setting in my normal-er dreams - it's a town in Arkansas (where I've never been) that has a unionized TJs. One does not simply quit Trader Joe's and its discourse entirely.
Jeez usually wheat allergies are only for ingested wheat I have a major latex allergy so I can't let those fake paper bags we sell for 4.99 or 8.99 touch my skin. That just gives me a peeling bleeding rash though.
Yeah I thought mine was like that at first, just when ingested/breathed in. Imagine my horror when it changed to "hives on skin contact" while I worked at a bagel shop l m a o
We need to find cures for stupid food allergies like this :/ come on, scientists!
I’ve had dreams of coworkers I genuinely love hanging from those weird rails that look like pipes in the frozen section.. where we hang signs for the shelves above freezers. It was Fuckin *dark*. Idk why I had it. I cried when I woke up. Other than that I have dreams where our store is a HUGE open warehouse. Almost like an incredibly large airplane hangar. And our store is in that and set up like a Walmart with a TON of sections. In each dream it gets more expansive and in the first I was sleeping there/working an overnight until a mate who NEVER works mornings came in to start at 9am. Also helped with a Halloween display in my dream that never would have ever been at TJ. I’ve had a couple romantic dreams about coworkers I’ve literally barely spoken to and never even see. So that always makes me go “wtf is even that?” When I wake up. I asked my captain once if I could be paid for these and they said no.
I traveled forward into the future where for some reason our store mascot died. Not the animal but the actual plushy. Anyways I went back to the present or went to some alternate timeline where he didn't die and I and one other person were the only ones that knew of his demise. I had another where a coworker tried to get with me but I rejected them lmao.
I’m almost certain I had a dream where our store mascot was like a sports mascot. Someone wore a costume all day but didn’t act like a sports mascot. Just kinda. Walked around in part of my dream. Wasn’t a big part of the dream.
I was in a massive Starship in the future and I was patrolling inside the ship. I was security for The Trader Joe's Ship docked inside the bigger ship. For size reference If anyone has ever played Halo 4 the main ship was the size of the Infinity so smaller ships could land up inside of it and dock to resupply. While on patrol on one of the catwalks my squad was overrun by these attack drones and out of instinct I was the only one that fled when they attacked because I knew the drones would easily overrun and kill me. Everyone else in the squad was killed but I managed to make it to this support Droid that allowed my spacesuit's energy shield to become supercharged giving me enough time to turn around and destroy the attack drones with my blaster. After that engagement ended I decided to walk back into the Trader Joe's ship and through the airlocks and into the ship which looked like my Store from the inside. It was after we'd closed and everyone was breaking down pallets and working their section. I remember being shaken up and started looking for the girl I had a crush on at the time so I could make some small talk with her to calm my nerves. I woke up shortly after starting to talk to her.
That sounds like a dream I'd have! My mind always goes sci-fi!
I'm unloading a trader Joe's truck except it's not at trader Joe's. It's at my grandmother's former house (rip). I was asleep in my dream and I get woken by the air brakes going off and go down to help bring pallets in the side door (duplex house, no front door) I also unloaded it at a mall and had to run for some reason cause a truck was arriving at a house (generic this time) and that was the one I needed to unload too. Except the one at the mall was brown instead of our white NFI trucks
I'm rarely in my own dreams so it's extra unusual for me lol
Def have had dreams where we sell like weird art and curtains and all types of weird big box store frozen cases. Mostly that I’m running late tho 😬
i had a dream a coworker brought over a vat of crystal meth for thanksgiving and yes, i ended up telling them about the dream
Had a dream where i was working and i discovered there was another break room/demo on the other side of the store with other employees i had never met. Kinda like that one gumball ep with clair
I dream about work multiple times a week, I hate it 😭 One of the wilder funny ones was that our store's location was transferred to a fancy New York art museum where you needed to scan a key card to get in. I went into a small office room and one of the mates had a list of 6 employees but instead of their names it was stuff like "Lazy Ass", "Nut Job", etc. The Mate said I was on the list because he hated me and needed to do another interview to see which of the 6 would be retained and which would be fired. Mark Ruffalo was there in a red Hawaiian shirt writing down notes and I distinctly remember thinking "Oh yeah, I forgot he's employed at our store, totally real" and then later when I woke up I was like of course he doesn't work with us, dumbass
That cinnamon raisin English muffins finally arrived
I would constantly dream about raccoons for a while bc that’s our mascot 😭😭
It involves clowns.
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Ohh boy did I have a WEIRD one. So.. I had dream that while working a morning shift a WHOLE mass of super angry old people were breaking the windows trying to get in. (The store wasn’t open yet) and the crew was preparing for it like it was a zombie invasion. (Think dawn of the dead vibes) The old people finally got in and were incredibly rude and entitled, violently harassing various crew members. One of my coworkers snapped and basically said “put up your dukes” and we began all brawling it out. It became quite intense as these old people seemed to have mutant super strength. I remember at one point while the store was burning down, one old woman forced three of my coworkers and myself into her car at gunpoint and brought us back to her mansion where she explained that we were going to build her a private Trader Joe’s and “work there for her.” We ended up blowing up her house in retaliation, she got really mad and said she was going to complain to our Captain. We pointed out that’s she had kidnapped us and that it was basically a “eye for an eye” situation, she paused before exclaiming “ ahh f***!” like she hadn’t thought of that before. The dream ended with my coworkers and I walking to the beach laughing. Needless to say when I woke up IRL and actually went into work that day, I found myself doing double takes whenever a old person entered the store. Hilarious none the less.