Target Sucks - We Hate Target and We Know We're Not Alone.

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  • February 22, 2013 - randi0758

    target is killing me.

    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.

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  • February 19, 2013 - F Target 15 hours

    15 hours. Seriously??

    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

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  • February 11, 2013 - buymeamovie1st

    And the DumbAss award goes too…..

    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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  • January 20, 2013 - Jonestown

    Target is the right name

    I so need to get out of there.

    If there is one common thing throughout this site is that if you don’t fit a certain clique, style, cult, whatever — you are doomed.

    HR, STLs, ETLs and TLs truly do Target team members.  There are conversations about who “we need to get rid of.”

    Pretty much if you’re not liked, you’re on the list.  If you have personality, you’re on the list.

    I had to tell HR “absolutely not, she generates more Red Cards than most of the staff,” when they tried to ear-mark a top performer for “counseling” or “coaching” because she has a out-going personality.  So much for fast, fun and friendly.

    Another one was let go, though improving and all, because the STL, HR, ETL and other TLs found her to be too outspoken and questioning.  Despite all her texperience and knowledge we basically were told to “get rid of her.”

    Another team member, unbeknownst to her, has been marked because, “she’s pregnant and will be leaving in a few months anyway.”

    I have worked in some companies with questionable tactics but this is unbearable.

    I was truly asked to come up with a list of team members to “get rid of.” Now I have to focus on “coaching” and “counseling” them to get them out.  When I brought up an underperfoming favorite of the leadership, I was told no.  When I rated a top performer as “Amazing” I was told I can’t do that because they hadn’t been there long enough, though another top performer who is well liked went through.

    Get it — Target is the behaviors of management.

    I can truly understand why so many employees just walk out.

     

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  • - Technoknight

    Very child-like mentality

    I read posts from former employees and it is amazing how different people from different stores have the same unpleasant experiences working at Target and my experiences are no different from anyone else.  I was hired as a seasonal employee even though I applied for a full time regular employee position in their website. I was on food stamps before I was hired, I am pretty sure that was their main reason to hire me.  Two days after filling out the application, I got a call for a interview.  I knew something was not right when during the phone conversation, I stated I was excited and the person that called me said to me “good for you”.  The hell??

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  • I just want to say I am glad to see a lot of people hating on Target. At first I was excited to work here at electronics, but of course if you ever worked at Target, you know that’s not the only position you will have. I was getting paid $7.35 for doing Electronics, Cart pushing, Janitor, Bike assembly, Hard lines, and register…all that for pocket change!!! Thanks Mr. Krabs. All I can say is this, if you get a phone call from a Target store saying to come in for the interview, make sure you bring up my statement and see if I didn’t warn you. If anyone wants to laugh and point fingers, check out this video of my store closing and the fake stupid paid customers supporting interviews just like that lame video of them fake customers lmao. Thank you for reading my speech and may this place rot!!!

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  • January 12, 2013 - Jonestown

    Should have read this all first

    When I accepted the job at Target I was completely excited.

    I was hired as a lead and encouraged by the conversations during the interview process.

    Several months later I’ve come to the conclusion that it is a cult.  You have to learn “Target speak.”  Everything has an acronym and is measured in Red, Yellow or Green.  Should you not adhere to the cult rules you are either exiled (fired) or pushed to the point that your only hope is escape.

    There is a reason that management is relatively young.  It’s easy to manipulate inexperienced, immature people fresh out of college and mold them to believe you are the God of all retail and business.

    The scariest thing, next to “you must learn Target speak,” that I was told by my ETL was, “you’ll do much better if you just drink the Kool-Aid.”  Seriously!

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  • - screwthisshit85

    So long Target, you bitch

    As predicted I have been “let go” at the end of the season despite always showing up for work, never making any trouble, always being on time, always being polite to the “guest,” and complying with all of the ridiculous demands of the TLs, GSAs, GSTLs, LODs and everyone else with a power complex and nothing better to do then harass the other team members. I can’t say I’m too sad to have been let go though, because honestly this has to have been one of the worst job experiences I have ever had.

    I loved knowing that every time I went into work somebody else was going to get on my ass for not following a rule for a job that I had never been trained on. I also loved knowing that all the team leads and GSTL’s were going to treat me like I was a moronic misbehaving child in front of the customers despite having done nothing wrong. Watching all of the team leads and their favorite team members get together and make fun of the other team members like they were still in fucking middle school was always a treat. And it’s great that my competency was what made the team leads hate me but also give me all the extra tasks at the same time.

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  • December 29, 2012 - noexpresslanes

    An experience from a soon to be former employee

    I started at Target in Feb of 2011. I applied for the job because my girlfriend and I decided to move in together. When I first started everything was seriously perfect. I was just a simple cashier, working a relaxed schedule because of my schooling, and I adored the 2 GSTL’s.  So as the months flew by, both of the above mentioned TL’s left and one of the GSA’s…I was a little torn up but I knew that they were only doing what was in their best interest. They quickly filled the spots for the GSTL’s, but then the former GSA said she REALLLY wanted me to take her spot. In the time I had started they trained me at the service desk and I would often cover their breaks and lunches (more on this later), so the idea of it seemed cool to me and I liked the thought of being “somewhat” in charge. Basically, they really made the job seem wonderful. I was about to realize what a mistake it was accepting GSA..   First of all, I want any cashiers thinking about wanting to be a GSA to understand something. You essentially do everything that a GSTL (a team leader) does except coach cashiers and do a shitload of paperwork. However, you are not paid ANYWHERE close to what they are paid. One of the GSTL’s at my store makes over $15/hr…I make $8.25. That’s literally almost half of what someone else makes to do almost the exact same job! To be fair, that GSTL DOES have a degree and is very intelligent…but try to decide in your head if you really think the expectations and duties of a GSA are worth such a low wage. Remember, you do pretty much everything a GSTL would do.

    But that’s not all!

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  • I started working at Super Target in Lee’s Summit, MO 2 weeks ago.  I was informed today at the start of the morning that I was getting moved from seasonal to full-time, days.  I said okay.  I haven’t missed a day nor have I ever been late.  I’ve never refused to stay late to help them close either.   I was always on task, 100% of the time.   I came in at 5 in the morning.  On different days I stayed until 1:30 in the morning.  It didn’t surprise me I was getting moved to full-time, how many people are willing to get paid $9.00 an hour and work any varied monkey shift you throw at them?

    Then, about 2 pm, another manager told me the 29th would be my last day.  I said, oh really, what is going on?  He said, well, you know, when you were hired you were hired as seasonal and that is ending.  I said, okay, but today another manager told me I was going full-time, days.  He said, well, um here, Derek in HR gave me this letter to give you.  I said, ok, and opened it up.  It just said the 29th was my last day and thanks for all your hard work, it was a form letter.  It didn’t give a reason for termination.  I said to the guy, come on, be straight with me, never missed a day, never late, what gives?  The guy just started making awkward sounds with his voice, which I instantly read to be “I know but I can’t tell you”.  I didn’t throw a fit and went back to work for the remainder of my shift.

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