If it wasnt for the fact that its so hard to find a job and I need to help my parents pay bills I’d be out of this damn place. I’m so sick of one certain LOD/GSTL being up my butt all the damn time about getting red cards. Sorry I’m not getting 7 like most cashiers. But I’m doing my fucking job by asking “guest” if they want to save 5 percent, which by the way is like Nothing. Also I hate most of the guest there who blame me when their shit doesn’t ring up right. Or who don’t wanna put their clothes on the belt because it might get dirty…news flash are you not gonna fucking wash it?! Oh and i hate stupid fucking cheap ass coupon ladies who are complaining that their last coupon didnt go through when their total for 10 items is only like 50 cents. Ugh so many more things I hate about working here. But these are just a few.
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(2) Every year review scores are initially decided upon and agreed upon for the team members by the team leads, hr and respective etls only to be unfairly changed later because of some financial metric that each store is allowed. Bullshit. That is to say if a team member was initially scored an EX for Excellent and then changed to an E for Effective or IE to Inconsistently Effective then the team leads are forced to write an unfair review for that team team who deserves or who is actually an EXCELLENT PERFORMER. That remains one of the constant and corruption that is Target. Certain stl’s are overpaid and spend far less time in the stores which makes you wonder what is really going on since they do not punch a time clock. Target needs to reduce their salaries and share it with the rest of the team members and leaders on duty who truly deserve it. Just saying.
Likes(3)Dislikes(0) What really bothers me about Target is the strange assumptions made by the people who aren’t LODs. You know those irritating people who aren’t a LOD but act like tin-plated dictators?
I’m a victim of the financial downturn who started a new career but still needs more money to make ends meet. I shop at Target and thought I’d like working there. I work in softlines and also cashier. The amount of stupidity and inefficiency is amazing.
The “guests” who blame me when a bag of Pizza Rolls breaks when I touch it, or when the check reader rips their check in two drive me nuts. What’s worse is some snot-nosed, power-hungry dolt telling me “less blah blah blah and more work” when I’m getting my softlines cart organized and passing the time with the fitting room clerk. “Less blah blah blah?” Really? This when I see this person chatting away with her little favorites?
I need to get away from this mess. Well, when I snap and give the snot-nosed dolt my opinion of her limited abilities, I’ll be on my way.
Likes(4)Dislikes(0) While attending college, I took up a part time job at target. The HR manager grit her teeth when she told me what I would be making if I accepted the job. It was well below minimum wage. By her reluctance to tell me this, I could see most people were turning the job down and probably walking out of the interview. I’m a young college student at this point. I just need something while I’m in college.
My friend worked at the store as a career. He was there five years. This is a guy that never called in sick. Never took a day off. Yet, when promotion came up he was always over looked for a new jack. I knew instantly that there was no way in hell I would ever amount to anything working at this place if my friend’s perfect record and stellar work ethic was considered jack shit to Target.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Okay, this will probably be a long post, because I’m listing off everything I’ve personally experienced at the Target I work at, bear with me, they will be a tl;dr (Too Long; Didn’t Read) at the bottom.
I was first hired in September as a flow team member, I had no idea what that was, being fresh out of high school and desperately needing a job I took it. The person who hired me told me “Oh, you’ll just be moving a few boxes around in the morning” seemed easy enough.
Keep in mind I was a long and lanky guy, with no muscle at all.
It’s a descent job, I unloaded the truck, bowled out the boxes (THROWING them into the correct isle) cut open the boxes, and put the product on the shelf. All from 6 am to about 10 or 11am. The bad part is, I needed sleep for this job, and when i slept is when my friends were ready to hang out. Personal problems right?
Likes(0)Dislikes(1) So let me start by explaining a typical day at our wonderful Guest Service desk. I come in at 3:30pm and from that time until 11:00pm I am completely alone without no one to help me or to talk to when I need someone to bitch too(unless I call for help which takes awhile because no one pays attention). Anyways. All day you get to handle the incredibly brilliant people known as “Guest”. Because of how smart our guest are(by now I hope you know I’m joking. most people are idiots) I get pissed off about every time someone sprints up to my desk. You get the rude people, the stupid people, the smelly people, the sick people, the screaming children people, the bad parents, the cellphone people, the people who don’t know what the want and so on.
Likes(2)Dislikes(0) I was going to write a novel about this place —- Target. I could have written about how they screwed me in my senior year in college or how they screwed me for a promotion these past couple of months. There’s probably no need to explain anything because most of the people on here have experiences the same thing over and over. It is the Target culture.
If you don’t fit a certain style or persona that they want, you are going to be screwed out of a promotion. They (management) form a clique and they essentially vote on who they would like to promote. That individual can suck like ass but if he or she is kissing ass then they will get that promotion. I was the best PA in my store and I opened almost 90% of the time because I was good at it and my work rate was far above others. I could tell you that I was employee of the month for all 3.5 years that I was there but it means nothing because the fellow who kissed ass was promoted. My CTL and him gel like peanut butter and jelly but yet I am blamed for everything going wrong even though they did the least amount of work.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Target is liter4ally making me sick. After all the crap I’ve gone thru in the last 2 years it’s finally getting to me. I went to the doctor last week because I have been having frequent nosebleeds and thought I had cancer or something had blood work and an MRI done and everything is normal. Doctor said it could be stress related. On top of that I have developed ulcers and it has caused me to lose 15 lbs in 3 months. I’m now barley 105 and I’m 5″4. To make things worse my gstl has made it perfectly clear that she hates me and wants to see me fired. I didn’t get the gsa n I deserved and I know everything it’s just going to get worse.I’m trying so hard to get out of target but no one is hiring.
Likes(2)Dislikes(0) I’ve been working at Target now for about 5 months now. I was hired as a seasonal team member but then they kept me and offered me a permanent job after it. I thought maybe Target is a good place to work for, it’s an awesome place to shop blah blah, haha. At first when I started, I didn’t notice a lot of the discrepancies I see now. Lazy ass workers, bitch ass LOD’s, stupid rules like covering the diamonds of the shelf. Are you fucking kidding me? Haha. So I remember a dumbass LOD telling me when I was zoning ” Covering the diamonds are the most important Thing a guest is gonna look at first when coming to buy something.” Haha bullshit!! I thought In my head haha. It’s a disgrace not being able to work more hours, it’s a disgrace how target cuts it’s hours from its workers to save money for the 4th quarter. How the hell are people who are working there gonna survive off of 15 hours a week?? Some people have mortgages, or rent and kids and with those hours the company expects people to love off of. It’s a disgrace. I hate how there’s so many bosses. Everyday or week there’s different ones. Wtf is the point of that. I like a few bosses and my team lead one of them. She’s super chill. The bosses I like and my supervisor are cool because they actually help us work and are understanding of how busy it can get which makes it difficult to zone, the others act like they’re so perfect that there shit don’t stink. Literally they do. It makes me wanna call them out and be like your a fucking idiot. They don’t have to worry about shit, they have salaries and arent paid hourly like us. It’s gay. I highly wouldn’t recommend this job, I’d speak to an actual employee first about it. I wish I would have done that first. Oh and the motto of one of my co workers here is “another day another penny”. Get it? Because of the wages haha. Bullshit hahahaha
Likes(1)Dislikes(0) So as I am still slaving at this place one day I am in Electronics*thunder crashes* and this guy comes to buy a Wii game. he thought he would get a gift card but the rule was he had to reserve a game also. Not knowing how this worked I called the clowns at guest service…who didn’t know, then I called for the GSTL..didn’t know..then finally the LODLAZYFU..who wasn’t sure but would come back..meanwhile I’m looking like a dumb asshole waiting for these idiots to arrive while helping a dumbass lady who can’t understand that LCD and LED are different ARRRGGGGHHHH. So the head clown shows up and says he has to reserve a game only problem is he only has a Wii and there are no Wii game reserve cards. The clown says oh nit can be any reserve game. I then have to spend more than 5 minutes explaining to her why the fuck would he reserve a game for a console he doesn’t own? Finally she just changed the price. DUMBASS. at Target the morons run the Asylum…
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