Category / Employee Experience

• September 18, 2012 - fucktarget12

  City target sucks ass

  Ok so I was a new hire and to start off I was messed with by target they wouldn’t accept my forms of ID they kept sending me home and sending me letters telling me when my orientation wasso I finally get in and not  even a month after I get hired they fire me because I missed one day and didn’t call in so they say but I clearly remember me not having to work so I come in the next day and I work all the way up to 2 pm and mind you my work day was supposed to be 9:45 to 6 and they fired me at 2 how do work someone almost the whole shift and then fire them for missing one day and just because I was in my 90 day trial period doesn’t  mean anything I should get the treatment as all the other employees and u should should be posted in the hand book that if you are in your ninty days you can not miss a day and not call in and when I told them that I didn’t know they still had me sign the paper saying I was fired and yet they just dictated to me the policy and still they didn’t let look at it and it’s not in the hand book sink can see it I reel like I was let go for no reason.

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• September 11, 2012 - Angry_Bastard

  Standout Moments as a Cart Guy

  And now, I present to all of you….well, you read the headline.  They aren’t in any particular order.

   

  — It’s a little bit after 10 PM, and I’m making my rounds at one the corners far away, and across the street is some trendy sports bar.  A bunch of drunk guys (I presume to be Navy personnel) ask me if I know of any good titty bars in the area, and if I want to join them.  Strange.  Then I told them, “You’re in Virginia, so there is no such thing as a ‘titty bar’ here (dancers don’t lose their tops).  And I don’t need ’em anyway, because I have no trouble getting laid.”  Then I go back to grabbing carts.

   

  — Somebody left the cart pusher at the the cart doors in front, and I’m guessing it was the guy who did the shift before me.  And nobody had a key to give me to move the thing.  By this time, I already didn’t give a fuck, so I just worked my whole shift and left that piece of shit there after the store closed.

   

  — A loud woman comes up to me as I’m pushing carts inside.  “‘Scuse me, sir.  ‘SCUSE ME!!”  I just looked at her, and I’m working while I’m sick and just say, “Did you want something?”  She asks me if I could give her a jump start.  All she gets from me is, “Ma’am, I’m just the cart guy,” indicating that I’m not here to be anyone’s personal jum starter.  Then the bitch asks for me name, which she doesn’t get (and I wasn’t wearing me pin) and told me I was fucking rude.  I just went on with my business.

   

  — Just as I’m starting my shift, a guy pulls up behind me — “Excuse me, sir!!”  I don’t respond.  “EXCUSE ME!!!”  “WHAT?!”  “Do you know where the *didn’t get the resturant* is??”  Without even looking, I just said no.  An hour later, after I grab carts from one of the bins in the front of the lot, some asshole in an ’80s Oldsmobile 88 tries to get my attention repeatedly.  He’s even more unsuccessful when he starts honking his horn and screaming, “HEYY!!!!”.  I just muttered “Fuck you…cunt” as I’m walking away.

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• - Sally

  1 month and I already hate it

  Alright, so I started at the end of July as just a cashier. The cashier training went very smoothly for me and I was able to adjust quickly. My only complaint about the cash register is the speed time. They want you to be in green as much as possible because that means you are fast. Yellow means you are in the middle. Red means you are slow. The problem with their system is that it is not always your fault. Team members told me that I can suspend the transaction if the guest takes too long to pay. Suspending the transaction will avoid messing up my speed score, however, we can not always hit suspend. Sometimes a guest will slide their card, but they will take an eternity to answer the credit card questions, which ruins my speed score. Why should I be timed during a credit card payment?!?!? I kid you not when I say some guests take literally 2 full minutes to finish it. Apparently that is my fault and I’ll get a red score.

  Anyway, they started cross training me. I now work in soft lines. I thought soft lines would be less stressful than the register, but I was very very very wrong. For one, guests DESTROY soft lines constantly! Even though they destroy it, we are required to be at each table for 4 minutes or less. It does not matter how horrific or how large the table is. All Target cares about is that you finish it in 4 minutes or less. If you don’t, your supervisor will come over and be demeaning toward you.

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• September 7, 2012 - suckittarget

  Go to hell Target guests.

  Okay so..I worked for these bastards for a little over a year I was hired as a hardlines worker. And of course for all the slave work I do they gave me a 10 cent raise. fucking a dime. What the hell kinda raise is that? I should sue for emotional distress. I worked my ass off since day one always being the best “team member” I could. And they threaten to fire me over being late a few times just by 2 or 3 minutes. Little by little I started hating this job more and more. I hate those assholes we have to call guests. Some of them get all pissy at me when I have to be the bearer of bad news and tell them we don’t have an item in stock. Um, hello? I’m just here doing my shitty job trying to earn my shitty 7.85 an hour don’t get your panties in a wad just cause i have no control over our stock. And they’re disgusting too. One night after close as usual all of hardlines went to softlines (cause all those lazy fucks do is talk and talk and talk and never get anything done) to help them in shoes. And of course stupid guests leave it a wreck. Shoes all over the floor, nothing is in its correct box.. I’m already super frustrated at this point when I stumble upon a dirty used diaper where all the hanging shoes are at. I mean really? People are fucking gross. There’s a bathroom right at the entrance you could’ve changed your smelly little brats shit rag in there. So I grind my teeth, pick it up with some napkins and throw it away. But of all the gross jobs team members at my store don’t always have it the worst. It’s usually the cart attendant who would have to clean out puke from the family bathroom just cause this douche decided 2 feet from “the toilet is too far, guess I’ll just clog the sink and let those slaves worry about it.” You fucker. The fitting room operators have a shitty job too. Apparently fitting room also means bathroom stall to some people. People piss, shit, and throw up in there. Oh yeah, and have sex. And I just hate that we have to be such a kiss ass to people who destroy the store, bitch about everything, get in your god damn way when you’re trying to zone, and release their bodily fluids wherever they feel like.

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• September 5, 2012 - Angry_Bastard

  Starbucks Crack Fix

  It’s early December, it’s already way fucking cold.  I’m gathering carts, not caring that they’re caked in splattered soda, Icees, nacho cheese, and all sorts of other shit (and probably shit, too).  So, I decide to get warm, but stay productive at the same time, so I make my way to the Starbucks and take care of the trash.  It’s closing time for the food court, and the lights are out.  I start handling the trash, starting from the kitchen.  It was like any other shitty night…until I got out of the kitchen.

   

  Soon after dropping a couple of giant trash bags onto the flatbed, I see this middle aged blonde at the counter of Starbucks, looking like she’s waiting for service.  Now, as much as I wanted to tell her to fuck off because it’s closing time, I don’t.  I was hoping she’d figure it out on her own.  But no, she spots me, still by the kitchen door, and like an excited dog, runs up to me.  “Excuse me, sir!!  Excuse me!!”  The bitch was totally fucking loopy, and she’s laughing, showing me her big teeth, and she’s wanting me to make her some coffee.  Nevermind the fact that I am bundled up in big brown jacket and an orange vest over it…or that my hands are just covered with garbage after picking it up — it was like “Can YOU make me coffee??”  She was still looking at me all bug-eyed until I said calmly, “Ma’am, I’m just the cart guy”, and walked away.

   

  A little while later, I hear from the girl in the kitchen that loopy bitch went into the kitchen and bugged the poor girl, scaring the shit out of her.  Jesus Fucking Christ, people treat it like mankind will end if they don’t get their fucking Starbucks fix.  They’ll attack like those rage-infected people in 28 Days Later.

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• - jordanlool

  Fuck Target.

  I’ve been working in a Delaware Target for a little under 2 years now. I’m a younger guy, just starting out in the world. (I’m 20) I did a few semesters of college, but right now I’m just focusing on staying working.  I got a job at Target around the end of October 2010; right in time to be trained for Black Friday. I was hired initially as cart attendant, and then I started moving up in there. In hind sight, I kinda wish I just stayed carts. It’s a really back breaking job, and it’s really tiring, and I’ve really messed up my ankle from the past two years busting my ass doing it. But after getting tired of that, I tried to grow in the company. Since then, I’ve learned how to do basically everything outside of Pfresh, Instocks, Photo, and Food Ave. I’ve worked in hardlines, softlines, market, electronics, Guest Service, Cashier, and basically everywhere. Ever since I started learning other parts of the store, I feel like it’s gotten really bad. As I started to feel like there was room for advancement, they just kept shooting me down, over and over. I busted my BALLS for almost 2 years, every single day. Pushing carts in the blistering cold, and the unforgiving heat. Today I just proved to my room mate my feet are so calloused over that I can put a cigarette out on my foot. I’ve gotten Great Team Hero, and Top Performer mutliple times. Soon as Christmas came up last year is where I gave up though. They finally started giving me shifts in Electronics, and I would do incredibly well. I would earn 5 or 6 Red Card applications, get a boatload of AARs, and the rest of the nine yards. With that in mind, they still threw me back out in the parking lot. Since then, my hope for keeping the job there started running dry. I’ve been slowly looking for a new job since February or March, and I finally found one, and I got hired. Target knows I’ve been planning on leaving. Yesterday being Labor Day, I did a no call no show because I had no way of getting in.. and honestly, fuck them. FUCK them. I did not feel like trying to find a ride, or calling out. But I found out from one measly no call no show they’re gonna give me the boot when I go back in. Is that fair? I wanted to finish out my 2 weeks appropriately, but they’re not going to give me the chance on some nonsense no call no show. Other people do it all the time, why is one of them going to get me fired? Oh well, whatever. What I do wanna know though– is am I going to get my vacation pay? I have over 40 hours saved up and I better still be getting it even if I get fired. Anyone know?

   

  Either way, FUCK TARGET. It’s a terrible job. It’s a great first job for experience’s sake, and for getting your foot in the door, but it’s not something you could ever make a career out of.

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• September 2, 2012 - Angry_Bastard

  Just an introduction…

  Hello, everybody.  I am an angry bastard, which is why I have chosen to go by that name.  I worked at the red bullseye for a year and a half, all but the last six weeks as a cart attendant.  Without trying, I became one of the more controversial people to work at the store (I won’t say which, but it’s one in southeastern Virginia) due to my approach to doing the work and how I had interacted with most of the people.  And then, I quit.

   

  But, of course, like anybody else on this site, I have a few stories to tell.  I just have to make sure I put them together well enough for everyone to read.  So stay tuned.

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• August 30, 2012 - Plummer

  The New Flow System SUCKS!!!

  I guess I should have known what I was in for, when during orientation, they said Target’s philosophy was ‘Speed is Life’.

   

  Early morning flow crew has always been a thankless, bust-ass job where the TL and ETL crack the whip and drive you like a slave. It’s the only job where even though you’re scheduled to get done work at 12:30 pm, if the truck isn’t done? You’re expected to stay until it is. It doesn’t matter if you’ve busted your ass to get shit done while your “teammates” have dragged ass all day, socializing, updating their FB updates on their phones, and looking down the fat girl’s top when she bends over to get a look at her boobs.

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• August 27, 2012 - Ramsesthegreat

  Ohh Target

  Well I no longer work for target after several years and I am glad to have left. Like many of you I have experienced incompetence from the ETL staff and the clueless mentality of the management staff in general.

  My first several years working for Target was pretty good I started off as a regular team member and i ended up working up to a TL which was in hindsight a mistake. They place unrealistic expectations upon the TL’s and they are the true workhorses of the store. There were countless times when only TL’s were scheduled on the floor to complete tasks, projects, and provide guest service due to “hours being tight” . ETL’s would walk the floor knowing that the sales floor was light but still give out more tasks to complete. They would constantly say to “delegate to your team” but there was no team scheduled to delegate to. Also don’t forget the pointless business walks, contribution forms, coachings, corrective actions, and leadership statuses they request from you as well.

  They will create a bunch of crazy schedules with new hires with ZERO training

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• August 25, 2012 - mropethguy

  This is the worst job I ever Had!!!

  Well, after 4 months with target i called it quits tonight! Yay. I was doing okay and wasn’t expecting to quit tonight. I was a cart attendant and had to work with the store ETL who was closing LOD tonight. We close at 10pm it was around 9:45  and I finishing up in the lot (moving carts) and i get a call over my walkie, it was the LOD (who I never really liked because he/she gets paid a six figure salary to sit on his/her ass and talk all day while the rest of the store is  working their ass off). I come in the store and the LOD calls again. Usually I don’t work on the register pass 9:30 as this allow me some time to finish my daily duties. ( this particular ETL is never at the store he/she only comes in when he/she is not on vacation.)( 6 vacations in a 4 month period?! Really!!!) I get called again by this LOD as i am walking to the guest service counter (at which point I say, “I really have work to do”, out loud. Nevertheless I get on a register for about 10mins. I leave when my line is empty to finish getting carts. I had a lot of carts to move and I was 10 o’clock so it took me about 16 or so minutes. The LOD had already locked  the doors and i called to be let in (a cashier  let me in, one of the hard working employees) I start working on cleaning up the front end when the GSTL calls me in his office to talk, we sit down and here comes the LOD into the office. He/She starts going off about me being disrespectful and not listening to Him/Her (he actually said I am suppossed to do what ever he says, like I’m some kind of loyal dog.) At this point I am heated but I keep my composure and listen to what He/She has to say. He/She then brings up the comment i said out loud(I really have work to do) earlier ( I’m like, how did he know i said that and he/she was like 100 ft away). At this point i just didn’t care and was really ready to go. We leave the room and I continue my work, until I realized I really hated this job and the low hours/wages(Cart Attendants are the stores slaves anyway). I walked up to the LOD and gave Him/Her my namebadge and my walkie and left. Thank GOD Any one considering working at target DON’T unless you like being taken advantage of by their No payroll having asses!! I mean I worked for a local grocery store that gave WAY more hours than Target. (That “we don’t have the payroll to cover more hours” excuse, is just a load of horse SHIT!) OK thats out of my system to those that still work at target, STAY STRONG!! I know your situation is less than optimal but know their will be something better that comes along eventually. I close by saying this corporation REALLY NEEDS TO UNIONIZE !!!!! That way those money grubbing corporate bastards can’t treat their low level employees like shit!

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