Target was my first job 15 years ago; I was 16 when I was hired. Minimum wage was $5 something, Target started at $6.00, $0.25 raise after you passed your first 90 days. If you were kept past 90 days you started accruing paid time off, had reasonable health coverage options as PT, and were eligible for cost of living increases plus your performance increase. I was hired for hardlines and had plenty of training: a day of onboarding (general policies, store orientation, safety videos) and two weeks of peer training. I had a designated trainer who I shadowed for all my shifts, with the exception of 1 cashier shift where I shadowed someone else to learn the registers for back up. Once I started college, I could take educational leaves and know my job was still there every summer, winter, and spring break. My STL trusted me and knew me by name, my ETL was great and really cared, and all my TLs were at least competent and fair if not more. I was there just shy of 5 calendar years, but it was ~3.5 yrs “work time (what counts for performance increases)” when you took out my leaves. I started at $6.00, and by the time I left was up to $9.45 just from increases, no promotion (at a time when minimum wage was up to $6.40). I truly loved my job.
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