Its been months since I left that bulls eye hell and while it sucks not having an income, I am soooo glad I finally took the leap after three and a half years and left that place. For years I had been miserable, hating life and every decision I had made that lead me to that hell but I was too scared to leave and not have a job lined up. I had applied to jobs but nothing ever came up, as the years went by I steeped lower and lower into my miserable life and convinced myself that I would never get out of that place. With the arrival of the VIBE, the fact that I was doing work I wasn’t getting paid to do, and the changes in scheduling I decided I had had enough and decided that I’d save up enough money to live on for months and finally leave. I made sure I’d leave before the dreaded BF and Christmas season..and I gotta say, last year I actually got to enjoy the holidays. Even though I am still struggling to find a job and sometimes I get overwhelmed with worry, when I read the horror stories on here and I think of my own horror stories I KNOW I DO NOT regret quitting without a job lined up..I do not think I could’ve held on any longer.
I hope all the people who are miserable working for this company also find the courage to leave and never look back.
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(0) Today I was lectured by one of my team leads on how I needed to be more “brand.” Til this point, for two years, I had been wearing a short sleeve red shirt with a long black one on the bottom…no one had ever told me I couldn’t and I had seen other people wearing that; but according to this team lead, it is not brand and I need to dress more professionally. The whole time I was thinking “Are you kidding me!? you don’t pay me enough to wear professional clothes!” I am a salesfloor employee who is always covered in dust and whatever crappy food avenue items the stupid customers spill; they pay me minimum wage and the maximum amount of hours I get a week are 22.5 and they expect me to dress up professionally!? I dress the way I do because that’s what I can afford on what they pay me. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR TARGET! I totally told the team lead that and her response was to shop in the clearance…hahahahha! Can you believe that shit? Only at Target!
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I, like every person out there, believed Target was a better employer than Walmart. Take it from someone who has worked for both companies, the only difference between T and W is that Target is way better at deception. Target DOES NOT care about their employees. Their idea of appreciating an employee is handing them an ice cream cone and a red card, like we are five year olds. They are the most anal retentive company I have ever work for. They cannot even give us 15 minutes extra of payroll and they try their best to cut 15 minutes when possible. Our shifts aren’t long enough to say that we are eating up the payroll budget and our pay is minimal so it just amazes me how far this company will go to save a few bucks. Walmart wasn’t perfect but it was never that stingy. I keep reading people’s comment “its retail, what do you expect” and I think its such a defeatist comment. What if people working in steel mills and other factory jobs had said that. They wouldn’t have unionized and bettered their lives. Just because our jobs consist of scanning items and cleaning after the pigs who decide to come out of their sties only to mess up our stores does not mean that we don’t deserve to make a livable wage. I keep hearing that the reason why we retail employees are paid so little is because our jobs aren’t so hard…trust me, it takes a lot of restraint not to punch some of these customers, managers, and co workers in the face. It takes a lot of grace and strength to go to work everyday smiling, doing a hundred things at a time and knowing that at the end of your shift you’ve made less than $30. Target, with its fast fun friendly motto, has done a great job at painting themselves as the good guy but the truth is that Target, just like Walmart, has fought off unions. Target spends more time showing an anti-union video to its new hires than on their training. That alone tells you how much Target cares about their employees. They pay their employees less and get more out of them.
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