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Archives / November 2012

  • Straight from Target’s website
    http://abullseyeview.com/target-talk…-black-friday/

    Are team members forced to work or prohibited from requesting Thanksgiving or Black Friday off?
    There is no corporate policy mandating that people have to work on Thanksgiving or Black Friday and our staffing needs vary from store to store. Across the company, about one-third of Target’s store team members are scheduled to work on Thanksgiving and less than two-thirds of our team members are scheduled to work on Friday. Team member preferences were considered when creating the schedules and our store leadership teams are continuing to have conversations with their team members to address any concerns.

    I think there should be a correction…YES Team Members are told they have to work Thanksgiving…they are not given a choice or asked to work.

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  • November 18, 2012 - TargetSucks

    You Mad, Bro?

                  Everyone by now is well-aware that Target is opening its Gates To Hell, a.k.a. “Its Front Doors” at 9:00 p.m. sharp on Thanksgiving. This, of course, sucks a lot of balls for a hell of a lot of people, for a myriad of reasons. Not just the employees suffer here; the family members of the employees suffer as well, missing out on valuable, quality time with their loved ones who are forced at the tip of the corporate sword to walk the plank into the unknown that is “Black Thursday”.

    I’ve seen petitions circling around, asking Target’s CEO and Head-Asshole, Gregg W. Steinhafel to decide against the decision to open on Thanksgiving Day. The petitions are useless, as this jackass doesn’t really have an empathetic bone in his body, and only gets hard when he sees dollar bills; which is why his wife is forced to wear lingerie that has money printed on it—that was, of course, sewn together by a sad, sad, lonely Chinese child. This man is a money hungry dickwad. In 2011, his total calculated compensation (the salary he’s earned thus far, and no doubt requested in all-ones so that he could roll around in it naked) was $19,707,107.

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  • November 14, 2012 - TargetSucks

    Black Friday Experiences

    Hello my fellow team members, since Black Friday is coming up next week I would like to know if anyone has any interesting stories they would like to share and if there have been any bad experiences dealing with “pests” on Black Friday. This year we open at 9pm which sucks for team members who want to spend Thanksgiving with their family and friends and not dealing with a stampede of guests. I also read online that there was a petition to get Target to push the opening time back to midnight or later instead of 9pm. I’m not sure if that petition would help or if it would make any difference but it is a bold move by many unhappy team members. I personally do not shop on black Friday and I wait till the crowds die down. I just hope that everything goes well next Friday and that no one gets trampled to death while doing their job. Please post and thanks for reading guys.

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  • November 8, 2012 - TargetSucks

    Oh Target, you’ll never change

    I’ve been working at a target in califronia the past couple months. And it’s amazing how one night I can really like it, and feel very confindent and the next night feel like i’m going to be fired the next day i show up for work. I work in both softlines and hardlines and like both just the same.

    Besides pretty much doing the impossible every night, you know zoning not only your area but someone elses because of all the callouts that happen on any given night it’s daunting. Not just that but just the little rules around the store.

    I think this will just be a general rant but geez does this place need to change a few things.

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  • I don’t work for Target anymore, yet my loathing for the company still clings to me like a dingleberry that I just can’t seem to get rid of. I went into my old store the other day and saw my ex-Store Team Lead sitting on his fat ass in Food Avenue, heightening his cholesterol by cramming down a hot dog and soda. Leaning over his table like a dirty little whore was a Senior Team Lead who he’d banged the shit out of like she was Jenna Jameson. He was married at the time of their lengthy affair, yet this chick’s definitely hotter than his atrociously-hideous wife. So in order to move up the ladder, said Senior Team Lead thus rode said Store Team Lead like Seabiscuit. And him, being ugly and fat with an ogreish wife said, “Hell yeah, let’s hump!”

    To preface this a bit with unnecessary information, “Dirty Whore” (as I will refer to her) has a constant camel toe.

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  • November 7, 2012 - TargetSucks

    Black “Thursday”

    So apparently Target is opening at 9PM on Thanksgiving Thursday. Glad to see that they value their employees spending time with their families during the holidays.

    This is disgusting. I guess you can’t expect anything else from them though, right?

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  • October 2, 2012 - TargetSucks

    Not a Red Card, but a Race Card

    It’s the start of the last week of March, and it’s another closing shift for me.  It starts out as another uneventful Sunday, wishing I was anywhere but THAT fucking place.  I get through the first three and a half hours all right, but then…I get called to do a carryout.   It’s back in the electronics, because someone’s getting a giant ass HDTV that costs more than any of us ever got in a regular paycheck.  I make my way to the back, and just have it on my mind to get this shit done quickly so I can get to my break.  Just had to get through a couple more hours.

     

    So I get there and the security man’s pointing to this mid-aged woman.  Simple enough.  Then she asks me if I need to see the receipt, to which I point out isn’t necessary, because I’m not security.  (Which is also an indication that I don’t give a shit, but I didn’t mention that.)  The woman then blew up on me: “Well, that ain’t what I ASKED!!”  From that point on, I just wanted to tune her out, but she didn’t stop talking her shit.  Her next words were, “Talking like us black folks make no sense…“, and then she started walking down towards the clothing aisle.  I’m just looking at the security guy, and he heard all of this shit, and I just say to him, “Fucking bitch”.   I then start to push the flat toward the front door, but I walk down the aisle passing the toys and holiday cards.

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  • September 28, 2012 - TargetSucks

    30 Things You Can Expect From Target

    (1) A dick up your ass; on a daily basis
    (2) Two dicks up your ass, when LOD’s overlap
    (3) Three-to-five dicks up your ass, if it’s a Saturday and your Team Leads, Senior Team Leads, and ETL’s are all scheduled at the same time
    (4) “Guests” shoving their dicks in your ass. “Can I help you find something?”…don’t ever ask this question–ever. No matter who’s watching. The guest will either respond with a brief, rude grunt at the mere sight of a peon like you invading their personal bubble, or they will say, “Yeah, actually…I’m looking for _______ “. At which point, you have a dick up your ass, regardless of these two circumstances.
    (5) Bullshit. Tons and tons of bullshit.
    (6) Hours? You want hours?? HAHAHAHA!!! Oh wait, you’re serious….
    (7) “Did you ask that guest ‘Can I help you find something?'”
    (8) Hearing about the kiss-ass at the front lanes who’s gotten ten billion Red Cards this week, and the fact that you suck balls for not getting ten billion-and-one.
    (9) Staying late…every time.
    (10) Meaningless, pointless, cryptic write-ups.
    YOU: “What am I being written up for exactly?”
    YOUR ‘BOSS’: “Uhh…you uh, didn’t stock the tampons from ‘Light Flow’ to ‘Heavy Flow’….”
    YOU: “Oh. That explains everything”.
    (11) Great Team Hero = Who Fucking Cares?
    (12) Kids shit in the weirdest places…
    (13) Homeless people actually sleep in fitting rooms
    (14) Yes, there is a “right way” and a “wrong way” to hang EVERYTHING.
    (15) You are responsible for guests stealing shit. You didn’t see them do it? Well you weren’t looking hard enough, dummy. Write up.
    (16) White trash–everywhere.
    (17) You gain the realization that electronic wheelchairs are just about the most annoying fucking things in the universe.
    (18) Unfolded shirts wind up in your nightmares
    (19) Cover the diamonds……..
    (20) Bosses + PDA = “I look like I’m doing something….. right?”
    (21) Children like to touch every fucking thing in the store
    (22) People don’t flush
    (23) “Guests” apparently covet their PIN number…until they’re at your check out lane and can’t fucking remember it
    (24) ‘Speed Score’ is another term for “Suck my ass”
    (25) Bullseye needs to be made into a live target
    (26) Nobody is happy working there. Nobody.
    (27) Your review sucked, as did everyone else’s. Get over it.
    (28) Your boss DOES indeed think they are the be-all, end-all. Just key their car.
    (29) Drinking doesn’t make Target go away
    (30) Cart attending is the worst job in the entire world–period.

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  • August 12, 2012 - TargetSucks

    HATE FOR THIS COMPANY GREW OVER TIME

    When I start working for target I liked it for the first 2 years. When I started off I worked on the sales floor then I worked my way up to the pharmacy dept. I was so happy because I was going to be making more money. I was at the target in Niles, the pharmacist there seemed nice, but over time she became a smartass and a pain in my side. I was a hard worker and never missed a day of work and tired my best to be nice to jackass customers. Mind you I stayed all the way in forest park and had to travel 2 hours every day to get to that hell hole.

    My review came early this year and she dogged me, She stated I wasn’t good enough, I need to do more to help out around the pharmacy, I wasn’t being friendly to customers. Bullshit if so why am I still working? So I decided to transfer to Melrose Park target, I thought it would be a little better. But no, the etl pharmacist led me to believe i would get more hours. When my transfer was complete he gave me 12 hours. I told him what I’m supposed to do with 12 hours, I have to pay rent and take care of daughter and I don’t get child support. He says you have to open your availability to nights and weekends. So I did even though this was so inconvenient for me because I’m a single mom my daughters dad isn’t around so I have to put this responsibility on my mom. I could understand if I didn’t tell him what my availability was before you took me on but I told him and he promised me more hours. He talks down to the techs like we are stupid. We don’t get our 15 min. breaks even if we are slow.

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  • June 19, 2012 - TargetSucks

    blistering inhumanity & arrogance

    So, I worked for another “big box” retail operation for 4 years, and I can tell that Target and the other big box are the two most inhumane, despicable organizations on earth. My fiancé was hired through one of Target’s shell employment agencies 9 months ago to come in and manage a wreck of a department that was wasting tons of money on stupid mistakes and gross errors. With her stellar personality and and incredible tool kit, she succeeded in bringing about some order and good process to a clusterf*ck situation, and started getting huge projects done beautifully, with little or no error. The proof in the pudding were the several  Target vendors who courteously thanked her for her dedication to normalcy and process. After nine months of blood, sweat & near tears, she was stricken with a disease she had carried since childhood, requiring life-saving surgery, almost a month in the hospital and several months of restricted activity to ensure an effective healing process. Today, she was ignobly notified by the shell employment agency that her personal belongings had been boxed up and were to be delivered to the shell employment agency where  she would need to pick them up.

     

    The principal list of complaints:

    1. Target has blatantly refused to accept any responsibility for her short or long term disability, reminding her that the contract she was forced to sign with the shell employment agency denied her of any and all benefits.

    2. Target is just another soulless, piece of shit corporation, that believes that it can arrogantly and indiscriminately f*ck contractors over with no fear of reprisal or damaging pr. I surly hate to disappoint. Hoping the State’s Atty General is not being paid off by Target, you know, huge PAC donations to keep the lid off of the kettle.

    Even contractors are people, you know.

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