I work on the flow team and don’t mind it. The hours fly by when doing this kind of work. My team members are cool and are hard workers and bust ass every truck day. But my main concern are the TL’s and management. They treat you like shit and look down on you as if you’re inferior to them. The TL’s just bark orders and watch us work while contributing very little. I feel like we should be paid at least $12.00 an hour for the amount of bullshit we go through and how demanding the job is.
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(9) I was hired as a seasonal cashier. I have lots of work experience and am a fast learner. I am a very hard worker. I am also graduating with my Bachelor’s in 3 months, but my managers at Target treat me like I’m stupid. On my first day I was put out on the floor with virtually no training. I have never been so poorly trained for a job. Every time I need help the managers act annoyed and are not friendly. Instead of explaining to me how to do it they do it for me and walk away. I am not learning this way, but have picked up many things on my own. I’m tired of pissing customers off because I have no idea what I’m doing. It makes me look so stupid, when in fact I know this job would be easy if I were taught. It is only my 4th day and I’m seriously just considering not showing up anymore.
Likes(43)Dislikes(6) Okay, so I graduated high school early and thought, “I shop at target all the time, so why not work there?” The first job interview I had, they had me wait for an hour and during the time two employees asked me if I was sure I wanted to work there. When they actually conducted my interview, I had to leave because I had other plans. They called me back and did the interview again, this time someone at Starbucks mentioned how horrible management at target is. I was called in AGAIN so they could offer me a position. Instead, they just threw me in soft lines when I had put in my application I wanted starbucks. During orientation the woman spent so much time talking about an app that she skipped the lunch break and half the things in the handbook. Plus, she kept us over two hours late. The next day, I was supposed to train with someone and she already went home. They messed up on two schedules for me and had to give me a new one. People kept forgetting about me so I went from fitting room, to grocery, to carts, and back. They worked me right up until my class (which they knew about) and I have to go in today and do it again. I’ve already been there a few days and I can tell the management sucks.
Likes(19)Dislikes(2) I’m 31 but feel like I’m 50 because the lack of experience in some of these positions is kind of sickening, and the workers filling them are brain washed idiots who have such little work experience they just regurgitate the salaried management videos. There are so many times a manager doesn’t get how to do simple tasks, but wants to pretend to be a leader at Target. It’s pretty funny, but also ridiculous. I have 20 something in every level of management at my store, and while you say I’m not much older in years…. well I have spent my working years in retail where clearly many of these “leaders” have not. They make silly decisions, and have egos about being the one to say what will get done, it’s just a bad structure for business. It will implode and hopefully I will be done with my masters and moved on to a career by then!
Likes(34)Dislikes(6) Ahhh further proof that Target doesn’t care. We are opening at 6 pm which really meaning 4 pm for some workers on Thanksgiving. Way to go Target! If you don’t work you will be fired, regardless of circumstances. Just as bad as Walmart! Actually worse cause Walmart knows they are trashy, and Target tries to cover it up with red.
Likes(39)Dislikes(9) I just want to post my experience with target and see if its familiar with anyone else.
I have been at the store for about 3 months and have finally decided to put my 2 weeks in and go back to school in January. This was my first retail job and i decided to apply at target, all of my friends and girlfriend told me dont do retail because its the worst..i kinda figured that everybody hates their job and it cant be that bad..jobs suck why would retail be any different? I was wrong.
Likes(22)Dislikes(10) 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.
Likes(17)Dislikes(15) Let me preface this by stating our store used to close at 10 pm. We now close at 11. Staying 2-3 hours late gets us clocked out sometimes at 1 am and on some occasions nearing 2 am. It was normal for us to have our zones completed by 11 in hardlines, but for some reason we are constantly being kept late and it gets blamed on softlines who they rarely have more than 2-3 people working ALL of softlines. Now we have low coverage in hardlines as well, but when the reshop is out of control on Saturday’s for example, there is little chance of it being completed by closing from the softlines people. The cashiers leave on time no matter what… but they use hardlines to help softlines and even when everything seems to be completed we are still kept additional hour(s). If I am scheduled from 3pm to 11:30 pm I think it should be reasonable to expect to leave by 12:00 am which is already 30 minutes past my shift. I sometimes have assignments that need turned in by the morning, but they really don’t care how much they screw our schedules up. I have even worked till 2 am and they knew I had to come in early for ad placement at 6 am but they said I had to show up or be fired. BLECH
Likes(5)Dislikes(4) I can’t state how many times we have closed till 1 or 2 am at our store, and have been scheduled to work a morning shift the following errrrrrrrrrrrr same day. I closed last Saturday where we do ad takedown, and we got out at nearly 2 am, then on Sunday I was scheduled for 6 am ad placement. I told the managers ahead of time that we would likely stay late, and if that was the case I would like to come in later on Sunday. They told me “There is no federal law for retail workers to have time in between their shifts, so you just have to deal with it and come in.” I expressed that I didn’t want to work without sleep and was told “You should be able to get a couple of hours rest before coming in.” which I think is a ridiculous response. Federal law or not, there should be a Target policy allowing time in between rest with shifts!!
Likes(18)Dislikes(5) It really is a joke how Target never gets “targeted” by the media for their low wage practices. They cut hours like morons because they don’t watch their payroll on closing shifts, then everyone has hours cut till they catch up (and ensure their bonuses) but they expect the same production rate. 8 hours of work done in 4 hours of an actual shift is common during weeks where hours are cut. They willingly take away hours, UNTIL they have them. Then when they have them, they overschedule people who signed up for part time hours. People who signed on for 25-30 hours cause they are students or have another job regularly get 10-15 extra hours when payroll is not an issue. They constantly deny schedule changes, as well as requests for days off, but yet when their payroll is lower they have no problem to cut anyone and everyone as they choose. All of these issues for such pathetic annual “raises”
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