Target isn’t the worst job I’ve ever had. I’ve had worse. Nonetheless it is a job that I dread going to today. The management is oppressive and often semi-illiterate, and the customers are often very rude.
Today when I arrived my manager confronted me and said “I expect 2 red cards from you today, you’re working eight hours”. I corrected her, telling her that I was only working five hours that day. Sometimes I feel as if when I do actually get red cards, I get no recognition. At most, I get a stupid “spot” card. It’s like, they pressure you so much, then when you actually do it, no one says anything, not even a good job.
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I also hate my GSTL they always bitch at us to follow the rules, but they don’t have to. You can’t have clearance stuff on hold, but they stick it behind guest service anyway. If i did that I be bitch at forever and a day about it.
I also hate them red cards.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I have worked at Target for a few years. I lost my insurance, I was told, because I didn’t have enough hours. My availability is open. I was also told that I needed an average of 20 hours a week. My checks say the average is 19.75. I’ve done the math over and over and get 24.735. They say that they go from the previous year and that is why we don’t get insurance or vacation and personal time. Our hours are cut because they didn’t make sales and yet new hires are all over the place. Everyone is frustrated over the no vacation/personal time deal. On the website, it says that it is accrued based on how many hours are worked, nothing about your hours the previous year.
Likes(0)Dislikes(1) I started at a brand new target last year in september. i was a beginner and it was my first job. I work in electronics. When i started i had a few people training me. all of which lost their job for some unknown reason sometime halfway through the training. I never finished any training and was kind of just signed off. for the longest time i had no idea what i was doing…so i was selling gift cards with gift cards and i was just kinda doing shit because i didnt know anything else. finally i asked some other monkeys in electronics and i figured it out. The only time i have ever really had a guest (God forbid i ever call them fucking customers) upset with me is when they are trying to buy something that requires LOD approval. I call for LOD…and they take a half a year to get to the electronics desk and help out. by then…the guest either hates the shit out of me…or i tell them how much of a tard the manager is (LOD isn’t an everyday term with regular people). So to avoid that i slide my own ID. I see their ID and can see that its real…i slide mine. I make my own judgement call. im not selling minors beer and shit. Im selling a 36 year old dude a rated M game and his ID isnt sliding through right and im not gonna make him wait a day for the manager to stop sitting her fat ass in food ave eating free samples and talking to her gstl friend.
Likes(4)Dislikes(0) I would not recommend working for Target. I never had an employer treat me or other co-workers the way they did. I use to love their products and now I don’t even want to drive past a Target. It’s like I have post traumatic stress syndrome from the whole experience. I know it sounds a little dramatic but this company does not care about you and will tear you down to nothing. Work fast work faster be the fastest!!!
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I was hired about 3 months ago in the Starbucks in target. I did not apply for this position, and I told my interviewer at my interview that I did not want to work in Starbucks, but they proceeded to hire me in Starbucks anyways. The only reason that I didn’t request to be moved to another department was because I was getting paid fairly well. When I started working over there, everyone was very friendly to me for about the first week or two, but after that everything went completely down hill.
Likes(2)Dislikes(0) From my experience as a cashier, I was often told by customers how sweet, polite, friendly, and speedy I was. I’ve been told by more than one customer that I was the nicest guy they met in the store. Felt nice! I always kept busy and found something to do while some cashiers often just stood around literally staring at nothing. Supervisors could usually be seen chatting it up by the clock-in thingy, taking their time to respond to me whenever I needed help with something. They often dog me to sell more red cards and get more surveys done. Hello, the customers don’t want to do it and they seem very annoyed when I try to persuade them into it, which strikes me as the appropriate reaction. :\ I often got my lunches cut very short, plus I get fired for not meeting their standards of “fast”, which is utter bull. Farewell, $10/hr.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) does anyone remember any of the questions on the employment test? it’s been a while and i don’t recall any specific questions, only that many were kind of “touchy feely” and hard to answer.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) When I started working at Target 7 months ago, my hopes weren’t set very high. I had worked retail before, and I knew it would be hell compared to my previous well paying construction job. I expected rude and angry customers, horrible hours, and bad pay. What I didn’t expect to see was how little hard work is rewarded.
I started at Target with the usual two weeks of training for hardlines. I picked everything up fairly quickly, and before long I was keeping pace with other team members who were much more experienced than I was. There was one person nobody could keep up with though, and that was our Team Lead. She knew everything there was to know about working the sales floor, and unlike most of the team leads she actually worked HARD. She would show up early in the morning, print all of the planograms and labels, help the back room pull everything needed for those planograms, assign team members to put them up, and in the end she would usually help the team put away almost everything. Every shift she had, she hit the floor at a thousand miles per hour and kept that speed up all day. It was impressive, to say the least. She made all of the other team leads, ETLs, and LODs look like complete morons on a daily basis, and all of us underlings on the sales floor loved her.
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