I just quit my job at Target Café after 3 years. The “re-inventions” have been complete failures. We used to have a lot of food customers and employees liked (e.g. burgers, sandwiches, nachos, fresh baked cookies) but over the years they eliminated everything that took a little time to prepare (which generally equals better food) and replaced it with “quick serve” items. All in the effort to maximize the time we spend with customers. Before I quit, I had nights where I only had 10 customers in 4 hours. The new food is gross. Steamed hot dogs that turn grey and bloated in 2 hours, pretzel sandwiches that nobody likes (more crust than filling) and our Icee machines never work correctly, Not to mention our TurboChef cant cook anything correctly. Most items need to be microwaved before they are baked. Nobody buys the cookies or the tiny “brownies”. I routinely QMOS’ed more food than I sold. Sad situation. Told management several times nobody likes the food anymore – but got the answer “Sample, Sample, Sample!” The only things that sold were popcorn and soda. I am glad I am gone – it was way too depressing. I actually had great LODs and Team Leaders at my store. I just think they were too afraid to tell upper management of the food problems.
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(7) Hello. I’ve posted on here before about a few things that pissed me off about my job as a cashier. I’m back again to write a celebratory post as my last shift is tomorrow, 5/19/2014. I have officially worked at tarshit for one year and 10 days.
Let’s recap some of the things you will experience as an employee of this company, more specifically a cashier:
Likes(65)Dislikes(11) 4 years, 4 precious years i will never ever ever get back. Just thinking about it makes me want to kill myself. Been a electronics team member this entire time while i’ve been going to school. I’m finally done with school, and nearly done with target. I just want to reflect and share some thoughts on target. Target was my 4th job and first in retail, so i didn’t know what i was getting myself in to, but i still should’ve known better. I’ve never in my life felt so pathetic than i do sitting here thinking about how i managed to let myself work for this awful-ass company for 4 years. Went from $7.75(initial hired hardlines) to a whopping $9.37 in 4 years. Not only would i have made more money selling my body on the street, but it probably would not have been nearly as soul-crushing. I’ve made a lot of friends over the years that i’ve seen move on to other companies and its the same story every time. Target is a soul sucking vampire and the other retailers are just blood sucking ones. I’ve personally never felt more exploited than i do on a daily basis at target. I do TL duties every single day and do it better than most if not all the other TLs in our store. I still get shit on when it comes to review and my god the scheduling.. The scheduling…
Likes(50)Dislikes(2) I’ve been a team lead at a store in Minnesota for about three years. The reasons I haven’t left are basically because of my peers (senior team leads and below) and I don’t have a degree. I’ve also been led to believe I’d be promoted many times only to be burned time and time again. I also am just starting my life with my finance after purchasing a home together so quitting isn’t really an option until I have a secure future income.
I just sort of laughed when I was reading through many of the posts. People being worried about “getting written up” or “coached”.
Likes(34)Dislikes(15) I am moving to another state soon and need to transfer. I don’t want to stay at target but need income until i find a new job. I have a write up on my record. I work in the cafe area and you’re not allowed to wear jewelry . I would honestly forget i had my earrings in sometimes and was given warnings and they wrote me up. I have called out a few times due to being sick and they tell you if you are sick stay home cause we work around food. But Any comments ? Will this hurt my transfer ??
Likes(18)Dislikes(4) So I have been working at Target for about a year now. I immediately cross trained all over the place. In this time I have been cashier, cart attendant, food ave, guest service, sales floor, flow team, electronics, and I started building bikes. In the past few months I actually took over building bikes. I work my ass off constantly for this stupid job. They are constantly calling me on walkie and asking me to do six different jobs at once and I will pull it off somehow with spur of the moment thinking. So working after nearly a year of working my ass off with ridiculous expectations I go in to a meeting with one of our GSTLs and one of our ETLs. They were talking about the raises they are giving out. They hand me my paper saying I am now being paid eleven cents more than I was when I started. When I asked why it was such a small number the reply was such shit.
“We don’t feel you work hard enough.”
I literally just an hour before this meeting came in took out trash, grabbed paper bags for the front, grabbed three items off the floor, found my boss and got his keys for someone, got 4 items from the back, gave my boss back his keys, and delivered everything where it needed to go, took out trash, and dispersed the bags through the registers… AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. Do you know what happened right after I finished doing all this shit at once. My boss complained I took too long to do it.
Likes(43)Dislikes(1) Okay so I had been at target for about a year , when I first started this job I was very optimistic. However that changed really quickly. After about my first month there I wanted to quit, because they give there employees little to no training. All that computer shit don”t count what is anyone really learning. For me i learn hands on and there wasn’t much training for that such a piss off to me and everyone who started around the same time as me. We’ve all been wondering how you give someone 10 mins of hands on training and then leave them and when they we ask a question they act as if were dumb WTF
Likes(13)Dislikes(3) I work in a Target store that has been very understaffed for years now. Our flow team, my team, currently takes trucks with about 12 people everyday, 5 days a week usually. We need at least 5 more people for things to get any where near done any given day. But of course we are told that everyone is failing drug tests or background checks. So we get to suffer rolling one day in to the next. Today is Monday May 12 and tomorrow we are supposed to get a huge visit from the regional manager, great. So what does Target do? They send in people from 3 other stores to get everything pushed and the entire backroom backstocked and clean. Wouldn’t be bad if they weren’t gossiping half the time, or they gave our team the jobs that require you to know the store. Instead the other stores go in to our backroom to backstock everything. This is the 3rd time this has happened and last time THE MANAGER DIDN’T EVEN SHOW UP!!! Now we get to spend the next 4 months fixing everything they just screwed up in our backroom while we all feel that we suck. Another wonderful day at Target.
Likes(29)Dislikes(5) I finally quit Target. And I feel great! I have never worked in such a negative, discouraging environment in my life, but now I’m outta there!
I feel silly, though, that it took me a year to realize that, contrary to what they like to tell you, Target does NOT promote from within…unless you kiss some major TL/ETL butt.
Likes(43)Dislikes(7) So I’ve worked for this AAAAAAMAZINGLY shitty company for 6 years now. I came to Target straight out of high school to pay for community college. After working my way up from cashier to service desk, I was “promoted” to a specality job that I loved. I was there for 5 years and recently went on loa for school (my CC does a 3+1 degree with a major state university. So in order to graduate with my bachelor’s business degree, I absolutely had to live at the main campus and attend classes there.) My problem now is that I want to come back since I’ve graduated. My manager filled my position with someone else (which we were struggling as it was with me on board. It wasn’t uncommon for me to get 9-15 hrs a week back there because “the other team members had seniority” according to my manager). She said if I want to keep my specality pay (I left at $12.47) I need to transfer to another store that has an opening (that’s +30 miles away from my current store). Hr said I can choose to stay at my store, but I’ll be back to min wage (and basically fucking over my previous 5 raises). So is there something I can do about this? I feel if I hadn’t gone specality and stayed a cashier, I would still be making more than min wage now. Can they just take my raises away like that? Can they fill my position if I’m on loa? Why can’t the new guy go to the other store instead of me? I don’t really understand loa since hr handled all of it for me, but isn’t my position guaranteed for me when I return? I need some advice please!!!!
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