I was hired to work at a Target Starbucks in Canada in November 2013…..I was excited! I thought that Target treated their employees with respect and dignity….or at least that was what I was told in the interview.
I worked my butt off….literally….was always on time……never disrespected anyone….always stayed late when help was needed and never complained about my job to anyone. But I was the only 30 something year old with 2 kids. EVERYONE else EXCEPT the team lead (she was also 30 something) was in their early 20’s….worried about school projects and partying,
I worked and didn’t like standing around and talking about what happened that weekend….or who was sleeping with who and who was cheating on who with who…..ect ect.
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(7) Ok I’ve worked at Target for about a month now. I was hired as hardlines and backup cashier. Everytime I leave this place I feel like I did a bad job and while I’m there I just feel like the shittiest employee ever. But I know that I’m trying the best I can!
Every LOD has basically made me feel like I can’t zone fast enough. But I’m just trying to make it look like the brick wall they’re always talking about. And that takes time! It probably takes me about 10 minutes to make an aisle look perfect, depending on the shape it’s in. And I don’t know what to do besides the best I can?
I’ve talked to people about how to zone the easiest. I’ve learned going from up to down and then over is more efficient and that’s cool but when you’re constantly finding garbage and strays that adds a whole new distraction because then I have to go put those away and then they’ll call me up to cashier or grab push and put the push away and it’s like, “OMG how do you expect me to get 13 aisles done in 2 hours on top of all this?”
Am I just really slow or am I overthinking it?
Likes(26)Dislikes(4) At long last, AT LONG FUCKING LAST, I am free. FREE. I gave my LOD my 2-week notice about 3 weeks ago and as of last Saturday I haven’t been back. The carnival I normally work at has been closed for the past 3 months or so (Winter brings poor revenue) but I’m returning to the carnival on the 17’th, where I’ll work 10-hour days on 3-day weekends having fun and making a livable wage. NOTHING like the shitty $8.00/hr “wage” Target has to offer. I informed my LOD that until the 17’th I was free to work and we worked out a deal: I could call in and ask if they needed an extra cashier despite not being on the schedule. So today I called and got a different LOD from the one I spoke to about the deal, he asked for my number and told me he’d call me back. SURPRISE, he hasn’t called me back. I’M SOOOO SHOCKED. So it looks like I will most likely walk into Target one last time to pick up my $56.00 dollar paycheck. Which isn’t even worth it.
Likes(37)Dislikes(8) I have been paying attention closely and noticed a lot of things lately.
To start with my store has an upstairs which has the offices, break rooms, and HR and in order to get up there you have to go through a secure door with a key pad on it. My store has one person who is bound to a wheel chair. I realized that he has never really been able to enjoy the things that are offered to us sometimes ( Movie day, fresh fruit day, Sonnys BBQ, Papa Johns Pizza, Stocking stuffers, etc). I definately feel bad for him because the store has not done anything to accommodate him so he can at least be apart of the team and not eat his lunches in Food Ave, or outside.
Likes(13)Dislikes(4) Just wanted to share some the bullshit I’ve experienced in my 7 months as a cashier at this awful company.
Likes(31)Dislikes(14) So I got hired for the Starbucks inside of Target. I honestly thought that Target was going to be this super awesome place to work since the people seem friendly and they seem to treat their employees well.
Two weeks into it, I started to see the reality of it.
To begin, I never fucking finished my barista training. My manager was so hardcore on training me for the first two weeks. After that, it was basically like “Okay you’re trained enough, start doing everything…… blah.” But it was fine because I had my coworkers to back me up. Then later, I would show up to my shift and my coworkers would leave. Not only did I not get a break, I also didn’t have enough time to finish the night chores because the shift before would leave at 6pm, which was when they had me working.
Likes(21)Dislikes(5) Does the individual store benefit from people signing up for a red card?
I say that to say this, tonight the closing L.O.D got pissed off because we only got 1 red card. LOL.
Someone said, Hey one is better than zero and the LOD replied, no 1 is even worst, we are dead last in the district for red card conversation, one of the newer stores is doing better than us and we are close to the shopping mall and airport that should never happen.
So I ask, what do the individual stores get from corporate if anything from people signing up for the red card?
Likes(13)Dislikes(13) So even with the fear of using credit cards, debit cards and redcards, people are still shopping in our target, though I can’t for the life of me get a red card out of anyone for at least a week, with the exception of a few stragglers who are willing to sign up for debit cards..
As a cashier, I have had to listen to the constant stupidity of guests, asking me if its safe to use their cards.. THEN when I say yes, those same people go into a song and dance about how their bank is reissuing them a new card and blah blah blah, who gives a shit..
Likes(11)Dislikes(22) I’m a cashier at Target and I have to say, one of the worst parts of checking people out is dealing with those fucking bags. I don’t know if it’s like this at all Target’s, but here in Texas our Target bags suck dick. You literally have to tear them from each other I mean actually use both fucking hands and grasp onto separate bags or else you wind up just tearing them both down the middle. It’s kind of like tearing a piece of paper that you’ve already folded, unfolded, and folded again and if you’re not careful you’ll tear more than you intended.
Likes(38)Dislikes(6) I’m not sure if anybody notices, but at the target I work at a in Chicago, the cart attendents are black and Latino and the cashiers are women. Does this happen anywhere else? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was more than one male cashier and white cart attendent? Just something I brought up with the brand attendant.
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