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  • June 9, 2013 - Junip

    Fucking service laps…

    Our store has these things called service laps where every hour on the hour you are required to walk around your department and ask guests CIHYFS?. My philosophy has always been we are always suppose to be helping guests, not just once at the start of every hour as if that is the time most guests need our help.

    I work in Electronics and have always been instructed to be around “the boat” to help guests. It allows me to be visible to guests and its where most guests automatically go to when they have a question. Then, my fucking troll of a TL(seriously she is a fat, little hobbit. 4 feet tall and 200 lbs who waddles when she walks) coaches me that I’m not zoning or cleaning even when there are multiple guests looking at cameras and cell phones. She says guest service is reserved for the service laps and I should be constantly cleaning up my department. She seriously has been stalking me since then. I can’t even go to an aisle to fart without her peering around the corner to ask what you are doing.

    Fuck her, Fuck the service laps, and Fuck Target.

     

     

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  • June 5, 2013 - TargetSucks

    Read This if You’re Going to Post!

    If you write a 5000 word story, in one continuous paragraph, I will instantly move it to the trash and it will never get approved. Lately I’ve seen more people posting 1 HUGE MOTHERFUCKING RANT IN ONE HUGE PARAGRAPH. Go fuck yourself, we’re not going to read it. Put some effort in, and hit the enter key a couple times and split that shit up so we can try and read it.

    See? Was that so fucking hard? I hit the enter key, and now I’m typing a whole new paragraph. Watch, I’ll do it again…

    Ta Da! Look, it works! It works!

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  • June 3, 2013 - recklesswhispers

    I need to get out of this hell hole

    So the target that I work at is right on the main line which means everyone here is pretty rich and stuck up. But my amazement is the fact that I have more issues with the team leads and co-workers rather than the guests. My thing is that I always feel like I’m being personally victimized at target. If I try to talk to most of my co-workers, I get blown off. My bosses are constantly right over my shoulder whispering about how I do my job and I’ve only been working there for 3 months yet I’ve been pulled aside and talked to about 5 times already. I worked at walmart for about 6 months before i transferred to target and I can honestly say I liked walmart a lot better. The only reason why I switched is because I moved out of the area. But at walmart I was only called into the office about things that actually mattered and it wasn’t that often. and if I do say so myself, everyone at walmart seemed to take a liking to me and i was sort of like everyone’s little sister/kid there (i’m only 19).

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  • Hi everyone!

    I worked for the god awful bullseye for almost 7 months and I am sooooooooo glad to finally be out. My experience started out great. I was coming from an equally crappy job, and ecstatic to work for target. I got hired before the store opened and got to help setup. At first, everything was great. My store leader was young and friendly, everyone in HR was friendly and nice, but things slowly and surely went to hell.

    We trained for about a month before the grand opening. I was hired full time, since I wasn’t in school for the time being and was promised that I’d have consistent hours and would never work alone. (In my previous job I worked alot of shifts by myself and hated it). That was only the beginning of the lying and manipulation I had experienced. Anyway, during that first month of training and the first couple of weeks before the store opened, we only served team members as practice. Everything was great. I knew it wouldn’t stay that way after the store opened but I didn’t think it’d get so bad. The starbucks team in my store consisted of 10 people, ALL girls, all of us college aged and one 30 something who was cross training in softlines too. By the time I left they were down to 6 and borrowing people from other stores because they can’t keep anyone because my store was crap lol.

    We were trained by a starbucks DM who speicifically said on many occasions we should never be working alone. For the first couple of weeks after opening, scheduling was awesome. All of us had our desired amount of hours, no one was working alone as promised, it was fine. We were busier than expected, the nearest target being 45 minutes away and we’re located at a mall entrance. Our business NEVER died down, even if the store as a whole lost sales because we are the only starbucks in the mall and around for a good 15 minutes. Well, no one cared obviously because our hours were cut in half. People were opening by themselves, closing by themselves, even had a single person pulling a shift BY THEMSELVES from 4-10 during our frappucino happy hour promotion. Our team lead, bless her soul, is amazing and I’m SO happy she too found another job. She stated many times she had tried to talk to the ETL-HR about our hours and he didn’t listen. She talked to tuest service ETL who was a total c word, she too didn’t listen in fact she said in front of me that if we can’t do it by ourselves it’s because we’re plain lazy. How can you accuse people who work by themselves ALL THE FKING TIME that we don’t work hard enough?! Are you kidding me?!? The STL who was her final resort that she talked to, told her that this is the way things had to be from now on. A girl on the team was pregnant and had a high risk pregnancy so it was understandable that she’d call off every now and then. She got fired for too many call offs. I get a call from someone from HR to come in on my day off because everyone else was unavailable (there weren’t too many of us with daytime availability because most of us are in college and have class). So I say sure, I come in. I offer to come in at 10, only to find I’ll be working by myself until 4:30 because our TL had other things to do. On my way out that day I got asked if I had talked to one of the cashiers that I was friends with. I said no, someone informed me that his sister had got into a car accident and he couldn’t come in. The front lanes were REALLY busy and theyre already short on cashiers as is so I knew what was coming and I again, agreed to stay . I ended up pulling a 12 10-10 hour shift because I stayed for him. The GSTL said she checked my hours before she changed me in the schedule let me stay but I guess not because the next time I came in I got a nice coaching from the HR lady and the ETL-HR. I get in trouble because I helped cover on a day that we were busy as all hell? On my day off? A thank you would have been nice!

    The LOD’s at that store are ridiculous. The older ones are bitter and rude and even though they know nothing about what starbucks is like, assume if you’re not rushing through a line fast enough that you’re lazy. Well I’m sorry that we only have ONE blender, ONE espresso machine, limited supplies and only one person to work bar, register, clean guest seating, and take our own trash out. The cart attendants in the beginning were in charge of our trash and cleaning guest seating since we were so busy, but then suddenly were told they’d be coached and written up for doing so because we’re lazy and can do it ourselves.

    I am not afraid of germs. I’m not lazy and have NO PROBLEM cleaning guest seating and taking my own trash to the back,, but where would I find time to do this if I’m the only person working?! What am I supposed to do close starbucks for 10 minutes while I collect the trash and take it to the back room? I was written up the first time for having a cart attendant come and collect my trash during frappucino happy hour when I was working by myself. He wasn’t busy, he offered and I Was thankful. He was coached for helping me and I was written up for not following directions because I accepted some help. You’ve gotta be kidding me. I couldn’t let the trash overflow and let the place be disgusting, so I put the trash in the back by the door where no one could see it (as we had done in the past, the cart attendants would just take it from there) and I was then written up AGAIN. And coached.

    Closing is always the hardest shift at starbucks because we only have an hour to close and have to share a dishwasher and sink with food ave. Therefore, even if we do get the outside done we still have to wait at least an hour for the food ave person (they closed by themselves often too) to get done with their dishes because it was often a minor closing by themselves and they had a TON of dishes. So One night, I was closing by myself of course and our TL had told us on nights we were busy and working alone to start preclosing around 8pm. (we close an hour before the store so starbucks closed at 9pm) I was busy the whole night and I began taking dishes back around 8 that weren’t being used, like the coffee grinder containers and etc. 10 minutes before we closed we finally died down and I thought it would stay that way for the night so I took the blender shield and the blender pitchers back. A lady comes in with 4 teenagers and they ALL get frappucinos. I apologized and said I couldn’t make them because everything was already in the back and we close in 10 minutes. She swore at me, threw a hissy fit, and ended up going to guest service and getting an LOD. The LOD comes over and yells at me for doing what I was told by my TL. I was then coached the next day. I closed again the following night, same closing LOD, I did what she said and didn’t start taking things back until 9pm when we were scheduled to close and ended up staying a half hour past the time I was supposed to leave and still didn’t get everything done because they chased me out of there since I was close to going into compliance. I left a pile of dishes I didn’t get to for my poor TL who opened in the morning. She understood though thank god.

    Target is not worth AT ALL the aggravation they put you through. I was constantly stressed out and worried about losing my job. My hours get cut in half, I still come in whenever I’m called in and I get treated like that? NO ONE can live off of 15 hours a week. I’m a young mom with a daughter to support who’s trying to save up to move out of my parents house and stop using their money. At first when I was getting the hours I actually applied for everything was fine. After? Those 15 hours a week I got went nowhere. After I filled up my gas tank I barely had enough to buy my baby diapers.

    They don’t care about you. They make it seem like they do, everything is kosher until a few months in and after your 90 days is up if you’re still there you can forget about being treated with any kind of diginity and respect. These people, this company, they think they own you. Well newsflash they don’t. I got a job at a corporate starbucks a few weeks ago and love it. I’m getting the hours I deserve, I work with great people who actually appreciate how hard I work, and I don’t have to worry about rude ETL’s and LOD’s and none of that alphabet garbage breathing down my neck and labeling me as lazy.

    Starbucks needs to be made aware of the way that their company is being portrayed by the people they license to i.e target. The way we are scheduled really affects our guest service and quality of the drinks that get made because when you work by yourself you get desperate. You have people breathing down you back telling you you’re lazy, not to mention the guests who just want their drink and to get out of there. If I was just a regular person who never worked for target and went into target and got something from starbucks and witnessed the conditions I’d assume they were all like that and they’d never get my business. I know I can’t be the only one who feels this way.

    Do yourself a favor, do NOT WORK FOR TARGET!!!!!!!!!! The day I put in my two weeks was seriously one of the most relieving and happiest days I’ve had in a while. I’m sure McDonalds treats their employees better. Target is pathetic. F spot.

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  • June 2, 2013 - greebbeast

    A reminder of failure

    So here’s my target horror story before I go any further let me tell where I am with targay now. I work 36 hours a week not bad for most people but I’m scheduled to work like 12 hour days its horrible :P. I started in 2009 after high school, parents taught me hard work goes a long way and I needed money for school well so far my first year wasn’t so bad the ETLs were nice and actually worked and worked with the employes as well not bad either considering our store jut opened for the Christmas season. Well around 2010 2011 I decided to try to enlist in the Air Force so I could serve my country and even make a little money for school. Long story on that but the medical officer who was an ASSHOLE disqualified me for a dignosis that was already cleared I was angry sad ect but at that point decided to go back to school. As of now most of the new ETLSdont do shit promote dipshits and always take the side of the “guests” he’ll they could say I showed them my cock and the ETLS would believe them. As of now most of my friends have graduated college and have degrees and some are serving in the military like I wanted to. Me I’m stuck in a shit job still a freshman/sophomore in college, my dad says I should jut finish school and try to go into ROTC but stay at target. If he only knew what that place is like. Everyday I go there it’s a constant reminder of failure and disappointment, drives me to want to drink and I have never taken a sip of alcohol. Those guests just make it worse too the soccer moms with holier than thou attitudes me the cock husbands who walk around like their the shit cause they got a trophy wife PSH kiss my ass

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  • May 30, 2013 - nbakes

    comp shop

    I obviously hate target and I could go on and on as to why. I have a question about comp shopping in particular. If my score is consistently green, do I need to worry if I am making prices up? Even if I am in the green?

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  • May 22, 2013 - F Target 15 hours

    This is simply bullshit working here..

    So fellow co workers, you know I honestly hate this fucking company. For it being my very first job I gotta say, its bullshit. I recently got my review and I figured it wouldn’t be that bad. Well apparently my hard work since last November when I got hired hasn’t payed off. This stupid ass team lead that is from softlines did mine, my overall score was IE (Inconsistently Efficient). I was like wow just wow. Its so fucked up because I get way more work done than a lot of people there. I get two zones done in the shitty five hours they schedule us. What it takes my co worker to do one area I’ve already done two. So my overall raise was $7 cents lol.

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  • May 19, 2013 - RedCardMan

    Handling fruitcakes ….

    1) So this old man and his wife were on my line of ten people over the holidays and they have only four large items in their cart.
    I greet them cheerfully as I always do and they start right in, with heavy European accents – first the wife: “We need large bags! The BIG ones.” Okay sure – no problem, now lets ring up the first –
    We need ALL of them!”
    Uh, I’ll give you several, but how about the first item? “How many will you give us, we need all of the them!”
    You mean, the entire roll of 50 bags? “YES, ALL OF THEM.” Uh, no – I can’t do that, but lets ring up the first item and we’ll get your order bagged first, then we’ll worry about the rest, thank you.
    Then the husband “Who are you – Mr. Target? We need many many bags! All of them!”
    Okay, we’ll get to that in a moment, sir. Your first item, please. Now! (I’m beginning to get pissed off).

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  • May 11, 2013 - RedCardMan

    Red in the face…

    So maybe you’ve read my “cashier survival 101” and “redcard method” articles here (not posted yet, still under moderation).
    It’s astonishing that no matter west or east coast, Minneapolis or Dallas, employees have the same story. This company has so much money pouring in the door that somehow they can afford to have assholes and morons running the place while corporate sits back and weaves their webs of deceit and plays their games. It is a diseased culture that thrives on simply placing square pegs in square holes and round pegs in round holes. I never expected much out of this place, but it’s been quite the letdown. Thank God I took this job only for the health benefits. I was asked by a guest once if I dress up to cashier because I take it seriously. I told him “No, it’s because I DON’T take it seriously….”

    Any chimpanzee can do it, chimps even smile. The only difference is that chimps will throw shit back at the guests.

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  • - RedCardMan

    CASHIER SURVIVAL 101

    I’m colossally pissed off at Big Red (my hours are down to 21 from 37 and this little prick of a new hire gets 37 right out of the fucking gate!), but no so ticked that I don’t take pity on my fellow cashiers. My 100s of regular guests love me and when I finally get termed there are going to be hordes that will tear my store apart in revenge *laghs*.

    Do these things to help yourself:

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