I’ve been working retail for some years, I started at JC Penny then I went to Wal- Mart for some time, the wife wanted to move so I ended up at Target. First thing I noticed about target is how unprofessional the ETL’s are. The gossip among the team leaders is more than any high school. My availability seemed to not matter to the ETLs, they would keep scheduling me on the days I’m not available and I would have to call in despite I told them I could not work those days far in advance. The amount of bullying that goes on from the ETLs to the TM is horrible. So far I have seen 3 TMs cry and 1 quit her job due to the amount of bullying that occurs in the work place. Also I can not take most of the ETLs serious seeing most of them at my store seem to be some 22 year old kid with no retail experience or life experience. I was actually told by an ETL that the training program is designed for someone why has never worked retail. That’s horrible, no wonder why the store lacks merchandising and neatness. Last but not least, wal mart is a far better place to work. At least you get a quarterly bonus, 60 cent raises (at target I only get 7 cent raises) volunteered overtime during the holidays, more full time employees, and last but not least a far superior management team.. I am new to this blog, but I am glad to have found this place. I will update with more bad stores from the horrible place we call Target.
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(2) I had applied there when the store in my area first opened and i never got a call, so i applied again when i noticed they were hiring, and i got a call right away, and in the interview was told it would be full time ours and everything, so i left my other good paying job for a new experience in something i thought i would like more. Boy was i wrong, first in training, they never showed us the employee entrance which is hidden from guests outside the building, and of course my first shift was 5 HOURS after they ended our training class, and i was late due to no one showing us the entrance. so then after about 2 weeks of working there, no one knew my name. Literally, standing there, and someone was looking at the clip board with the break schedule on it and they said hey its this persons break, and everyone else was “who’s that”. So disappointing. Now fast forward to now, i am still there but i was told i would be going down to part time hours, so i got my old job back and was going to do both places, so when they got me to update my availability, they flipped because i was only going to be able to go to part time hours and they looked me in the face and said the managers would have to have a meeting together to discuss if they really want me there or not or if they could get something better. like who does that. Now its sad, i have been calling in sick my past few shifts because i feel so sickened to be there. it took everything i had not to tell the manager who said that to me off.
Likes(26)Dislikes(3) Who else has STL problems? I’ve been working at Target for a while now and Ive worked my way from a cashier to a Senior TL. I know Target inside and out, and plenty of things I shouldn’t know. Recently we got a new store manager. The Worst thing that has happened to this store. She has no idea how to run and store, shes a complete bitch, and has cause team morale to drop drastically. We were never a well running store whatsoever, we were somewhat of a dysfunctional family. We did what needed to be done it just took more effort than it should have. Now my store is a war zone and every man for himself. All because of our store manager. She unfairly targets quite a few team members and no one knows why. It’s the hard working ones who get shit done, but they don’t flow too well with the politics. It’s not like it’s the lazy TMs. Our ETLs are so terrified of this woman and losing their jobs they’ll do whatever she wants even when they know it’s wrong. I thought I was on decent terms with my ETL until he intentionally set me up because she doesn’t like me. But the one thing I’ve learned from working at Target is document everything and cover your own ass first. It all fell back on him. Needless to say the tension in my store is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I should call the hotline on all of them.
Likes(49)Dislikes(5) The target I worked for was an embarrassment to the workforce in my opinion. Instead of seeing the potential in the hardworkers in their faces they just chose their friends in the company to give GSTL positions to. It was sad, there was one chick who was such a messy person in guest service, and in food ave and a HUGE COMPLAINER. Yet she was chosen to be the next GSTL for the frontlanes and she could barely handle Guest Service without hitting the additional cashier’s button atleast 5 times in a 4 hour shift. But she was a new GSTL’s friend in the company so she got a shot, did horribly but they kept her. I was lost at the decision since she got so many complaints about her and everyone agreed she was scattered brained and MESSY. I’m not even complaining they should have given me a shot, there were PLENTY of other mentally capable candidates who would have excelled past the vet GSTL’s but since they weren’t in the small circle they were over looked. Target 0637 as a former insider looking back in they could be DOOMED!
Likes(18)Dislikes(3) In early October of 13, I applied at Target. Within an hour I got a call scheduling an interview and learned the position I was interviewing for was seasonal. Now, normally I would have declined at that moment because quite frankly seasonal isn’t my thing, but I applied when I was 18 weeks pregnant and money was already tight so I figured anything is better than a little diner job I previously had. I was hired on when I was 21 weeks pregnant.
Likes(39)Dislikes(0) Just found this site. Read the first two pages. Saw lots of frustration towards TLs posted. However, I hope I’m not the only TL out there that is experiencing some major bullshit. I genuinely care and make an effort.
Likes(16)Dislikes(17) I get chewed out for not wearing a PDA holster by the alcoholic TL trainee barely 23 years old, then an hour later catch him walking to the backroom carrying a PDA with no holster! Then I go on my lunch and as I say over the walkie, “This is _______, I’m taking my 30, Will’s got the boat.” I guess someone walkied over me, because when I got back I got chewed out AGAIN by that TL! He kept saying “When you take breaks and lunches you gotta call it on the walkie,” and “Geez, this is like working with children…” and I’m like “Uh I did, you didnt hear it?” He says “No I didn’t, maybe next time try being a little more responsible.” and I’m there thinking, responsible? Where do you get off saying that? It’s like I’m only there to be harassed by him, like I’m back in high school or some sh*t and I keep getting picked on by popular kids. And all the popular kids are LOD’s and us regular team members are the losers and geeks. And it doesn’t stop there, even the other LOD’s get in on it. What’s sad is that I started at another Target and it wasn’t at all like this, everyone was nice and polite and never rude. But then I transferred to live with a friend and here at the 1115 store we have high school-esque cliques of LOD’s and a tyrannical STL. I deal with it ALL the time, no matter what I do or say I still get the shaft. I can’t wait to get out of there!
Likes(41)Dislikes(1) Good News: The only thing that’s good about the breach is that I haven’t had to ask customers about the REDcard for four weeks now!
Bad News: The LODs with the Breakout (the clipboard with our breaks listed on it) always fail to make sure each cashier has their break! They always tell me that I should never go on break until they tell me to, yet they forget to check the Breakout so often, that I have missed many of my breaks in the past few days, and the breaks I do have are two hours later than they should be. I know LODs can be busy, but how hard is it to glance at the clipboard and walk up to a cashier to say it is time for their break? Or if they cannot go to the cashier, they can ask another employee to tell the cashier for them.
Likes(34)Dislikes(3) I am so sick of people pointing the finger at Target because of the data breach. Target did not do it; a group of criminals hacked the system and leaked the information. It was also not the only store that this happened to. It happened to Neiman and Marcus as well.
I am sick of people coming to me at guest services and being like ‘”because YOU GUYS stole my identity” and pointing their finger at me. No we didn’t. And don’t tell me you understand that when I tell you “It wasn’t the store, it was a group of criminals that hacked the system” because if you did you would not get up in my face and say YOU GUYS because you would understand that we didn’t exactly jump for joy when we found out this happened because we knew we would get blamed for it. We just work for the stores and for the record, employees were also affected. Target takes security very seriously and is doing everything they can to fix this. Blaming the stores for this is ignorant so just stop. For fucks sake.
Likes(34)Dislikes(51) I was doing some reading online earlier today when I came across an article (which I will link below) about the newest update on the breach. For those out of the loop, the names, (email) addresses, phone numbers (and possibly SSNs) of 70 million additional customers were included in the stolen data. That brings the total up to 110 million, roughly 35% of the US population (or 317,353,904 according to http://www.census.gov/popclock/).
Leon Nicholas, an analyst for Kantar Retail in Boston, said that Target may need to “re-orient” management to “own the narrative again,” that “they can do it. But these are tough times for Target.”
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