Hi, I’m a cashier at Target! D’:
Ok, so we got new card swipes a few weeks a go, and already none of them worked for half the day. We also have to do something new called Power Hour. It may take place at around 1 PM or 5 PM, when all cashiers and anyone else who can cashier jumps on a check lane so that when the store gets crowded, there wouldn’t be any long lines. It’s very helpful when employees with PDAs cashier because the customers don’t have to wait for fifteen minutes just for us to find out the price of an item our cash register doesn’t recognize. Just a few buttons pushed, and a beep from the PDAs scanner, and we have the price. Now why can’t cashiers have these? I have to walk all the way to Guest Services, or try catching the busy GSA (or whoever) and it almost always takes too long just to find the price. I could ask the customer to go look at the price tag, but I know they wouldn’t want to go all the way to the back of the store while holding up the line. Even if I did suspended their transaction, they would have to wait awhile to pay for their things because many people buy up to two carts of groceries. Either way, it’s a pain for both me and my customer.
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(5) So I’ve been working here as a cashier for almost a year in southern California. The pay is alright considering I’m just part time, however working conditions just began to get bad recently.
Before, our break schedule followed the 2-4-6 rule, which was easy to work with and the TLS generally followed it. Now it’s a computerized schedule rather than the TLS manually writing in the break schedules for the day. For an 8 hour shift, you get your first break just one hour after you start, lunch usually on just your third hour, and the last break on your fifth hour. On top of them not running the ac in the front, it gets hot and tiring really fast. A few including myself have gotten woozy due to working almost 4 full hours without a break. One actually passed out. Everyone hates it.
Likes(22)Dislikes(3) I started working at Target in the Littleton area about three months ago and I am going to put in my two weeks notice tomorrow. I cannot stand these ungrateful assholes any longer. First, I always get shitty hours. Second, I cannot stand the lack of communication that there is within the damn store. For example, one manager will tell me to do something and the other will tell me not to.
Likes(21)Dislikes(1) I worked at target Northgate (REGINA SASKATCHEWAN CANADA) for close to a year before I quit a few months ago and all I can say is FUCK THAT PLACE. where do i start. first of all the customers where rude as all fuck, constantly bitching about sold out merchandise acting as if it was my fault. secondly assshole managers. the worst is this wack fuck with all these piercings who shall remain nameless ASSHOLE has himself convinced he was the god-king of the target store always bitching at the shit payed employees for not working hard enough meanwhile he would sit in the starbucks for several hours at a time sitting back drinking coffee NOT DOING A FUCKING THING, then he goes on that fucking walkie talkie and tells everyone we need cashier backup. WHY CANT YOU DO IT YOU LAZY UGLY WACK STUPID LOOKING FUCK? or this other manager ( or Fuhrers is more proper) with his glasses and this constant smug look on his fucking face god i hate that prick,(him and the pierced bitch were best buddys) ask him a question and he will make sure you feel r******d or he will make rude comments and think hes so fucking funnyyou ugly four eyed fuck). then he comes in with his ugly daughter and wife and walks around giving all the employees dirty looks because were not working hard enough i guess. thirdly is the “TEAM HUDDLES” nothing is more stupid we sit in a circle and tell each other what a great job we all do, fucking stupid if ask me trying to make us feel some sort of solidarity with the prick manegment. However the worst is the security. If your a native american expect to be followed the entire time your in their shopping. those racist fucks made sure to always tell us to watch them and these people noticed all the time too making all the employees look like ignorant fucks. FUCK YOU TARGET
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Likes(32)Dislikes(5) I have worked for Target for 8 long years and I can tell you what, I am so thankful it is over. I could not begin to tell you all of the frustrations I have incurred over the course of that time. I worked in the pharmacy for the majority of my time and have been trying to get a job as an ETL with them for roughly 6 months. I have been the definition of a model employee and always go above and beyond for not only my fellow employees but the “guests”. Why I bothered to continue trying I will never know. I’ve battled for raises I deserved, job titles I’ve deserved, transfers which should have been easy have been completely messed up to the point where the HR thought it a good idea to just terminate and rehire me instead of doing their job right, and to get hired on as an ETL. So, they tried to tell me there were no job positions available, which is understandable minus the fact that I looked online and saw job postings for well over 8 months. Ouch. Then when I am finally ready to move on to bigger and brighter things and cut ties with them for good, they decide to tell me there is a position open up in the area I want to work. Terrific I think! Dead wrong. It took an entire month to just get through two interviews needing still one more to get hired on with the company. Two weeks pass by after the second interview and no word from any of the recruiters or interviewers I have been in touch with. So, I decide to email the initial person who contacted me regarding the position. Within 5 minutes of sending my email, they respond sorry there has been a change and there will be no more needs at this current time. Thanks a bunch for stringing me along for a month and sapping some more life from me.
Likes(32)Dislikes(2) So I was hired as a “Full-Time” Overnight Flow Team Member at the Super Target #2220 in Norman Oklahoma. I quickly realized that Target’s definition of “Full-Time” is 20 – 25 hours per week. WTF? Thanks a lot for telling me during the interview so I could have politely said “Fuck no I can’t live off of $8K per year!” Oh, but wait…I forgot Target loves to supplement your poverty wage with get benefits like a free cupcake or honeybun in the break-room. Due to the insanely low hours you will be scheduled you will likely never see any real benefits (401K, sick time. etc.) materialize working for Target, so Invest your break-room junk food wisely!
Likes(42)Dislikes(3) Hello. I’ve been at target for a 1 1/2 months and i hate it. first off, my supervisors are terrible. They rarely help and are never by the front lanes, which they should be. They’re either out hiding somewhere claiming they are in need some where else or hiding in the office.
As cashier, i had no training; just a book that had the basics. I was then put on by myself after that and it started out pretty good until the guests kept asking about gift registry, suspending the transaction, or if we carried an item. each time i would call out for the supervisor to help me and they would get mad about that and just take over, then tell me there’s a “help” button that calls them. But they never answer the call, even for change that i need.
Likes(17)Dislikes(4) I was so excited to work at target. I’m sure most people are at first. My friend had started working there a few months before me and raved about how he loved it, and that I should apply ASAP! So…I did and after calling them twice they set me up with an interview. I aced the phone interview and the same day went in for an actual face to face interview. I was hired in the meat department, and never told wtf I did over there! Keep in mind I’m a short 142 pound girl.it wasn’t till my second day that the women who hired me told me I had to be able to lift 80bls and work in a freezer most of the time. After 1 month of breaking down 7-8 foot pallets every other night and coming home bruised to hell from having meat boxes fall on me, I asked out of the department.
Likes(19)Dislikes(2) Never call in sick, even when diagnosed with a brain tumor only called in once. A couple of weeks ago, I asked to leave an hour early as I had company from out of town who were leaving the next day. The previous day I had closed. I was told that if I get 3 red cards I could leave early. It pissed me off, but I proceeded to “HOUND” everyone of my guests for one. I ended up getting 2, and thought for sure they would let me leave early for the effort I put in. NOPE, I stayed that extra hour but made sure I told the gsl that next time I would just call out. Can’t wait for the minute they need me to stay late because they’re short handed. KISS MY ASS
Likes(75)Dislikes(6) I have worked for target for about a year and a half. I was hired for seasonal work in the grocery department. I’m pretty sure I interviewed well because I was called in for orientation 5 days after my first interview. I was so excited because I had left my previous job to move to fla. with my husband so he could take a promotion. I had been down in the dumps because I missed my old job so much. I worked for a top fortune 500 company for four years and thought well hey I love shopping at target so why not get paid to do what love anyways right?
It look me about three weeks to realize that target is a fucking bullshit corporation.
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