Category / TargetSucks

• August 10, 2013 - bananasuit

  T1846 is trying to control or own personal feelings

  So a very good friend of mine was talked to about “expressing” himself about his own personal life. Fucking really???? What the fuck is the ETL’s fucking problem! we and I say we because a lot of us have gotten spoke to about that as well. Front lanes, backroom, sales floor every where every department has gotten spoke to about this bullshit!

  Who cares if I want to talk about or vent about what I’m going through, it’s my choice. These motherfuckers wanna take away our freedom if speech! Get a fucken life bunch of idiots. Mind your own lame ass lives. If I wanna talk about what color and texture my shit was today when I took a shit THAT’S MY CHOICE!

  You all managers should just go back to school and learn how to work on your own instead of in pairs like all of you always do. You guys are a disgrace to the morale of this store, this store is fucking ridiculous and all of you think your shit don’t stink. Go fuck yourselves!

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• August 8, 2013 - TargetSucks

  YouTube Video Challenge

  I don’t know if any of you would be into this or not, but I thought it might be a fun idea. I watched a video on youtube talking about how much this girl HATES target. Which gave me the idea for this challenge…

  So… Here’s the challenge: go on youtube and make your own video telling the world why YOU hate Target. Mention “ihatetarget.net” in the description of the video (and in the video itself if you want) and I will choose the best videos to include on this site. If you want, I can setup a poll to choose the best video. If they’re really good, I may add an additional page to this website to spotlight the winning videos.

  BONUS POINTS IF YOU USE YOUR VIDEO MENTIONING THIS SITE TO QUIT WORKING AT TARGET!

  This is the video that inspired this idea: http://youtu.be/5c8RbL73Ywo

  Here’s another video that does mention this site in the description: http://youtu.be/73tNmItlVqs

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• - Chris. 349

  Sometimes working at Target is make work.

  Working as a Cart Attendant can be tolerable. Unless some high in the sky LOD is on your case. One of the worst things about working the Cart Attendant job is that supervisors and “guests” expect you to dry off the carts whenever it rains. Okay I dry them off, but get this, that isn’t even satasfactory anymore. Whenever it rains I’m hassled about putting dry carts near the isle where Starbucks is. This requires me to rearrange the entire lot of carts. Taking already dry carts near the cart pusher and repositioning them on the other side of the cart area, this of course eats up time I could be using for other things. This is just a bunch of make work. I don’t see what’s wrong with just drying the carts and putting them in any lane I choose. Besides, no matter how well I dry the carts I always get this trademark remark from the “guests” “This cart is wet.” I chuckle everytime they whine this line out like a cat that just had it’s foot stepped on. I mean they just walked through rain to get in the store and they’re suprised that there’s still water on the carts. One time I had to say this after I heard the whinging about a cart being wet, “That’s what happens when it rains,” I got the nastiest look. But seriously, I shouldn’t have to explain why rain makes things wet.

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• August 7, 2013 - Chris. 349

  Go fetch it.

  Target should change it’s name to Go Fetch’ It and here’s why. Working as a Cart Attendant I have to obviously do Carts but also: hangers, reshop, baskets, bringing back motorized carts, spills, wiping off carts when it rains and some other stuff that I’m forgeting. This isn’t about me whining about the Cart Attendant job it’s about what happens in the last half and hour of some shifts. Occasionaly I get asked or demanded to, get milk for Starbucks. Now in my opinion I think Food Avenue was just fine. I loved their chicken strips and popcorn. Nowdays I never shop at Starbucks. I don’t even like coffee. In my opinion it shouldn’t be in the store, it’s just a stupid fad. Anyway, Starbucks is uasually manned by two girls, until the last hour of my shift. Than they like to ask me to go get milk from them. Are you serious? Where did they get the idea that I have fifteen minutes to waste in the cooler filling up a cart with milk and whipping cream, that we almost never have. I’ve got other stuff to do. I would so love it if one of the ETL’s or LOD’s had to do that and freeze their little butts off while they’re at it.

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• - SayWhaaat

  Cart Attendants…. The hardest workers in the store!

  1371 isn’t a bad store to work at. The employees are really nice and very chill…this includes 99% of the management as well.

  The only problems I have is the constant NEEDS and wants for Cart Attendants. I’ve been pushing carts at my store since late ’06 and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it until around ’12. We were only expected to do our job and everything was hunky-dory. Out of the blue, something changed…

  We are expected to cover cashiers, Target Cafe, Guest Service, and sometimes GSA’s for their breaks. We are to take the Salesfloor’s trash to the backroom, clean the breakroom, clean Target Cafe at closing time, zone the salesfloor when the store closes, etc…. All on top of our own responsibilities. Do we get paid extra for this? Nope.

  I brought all of this up to my HR-TL and just last week…I’ve been given a break. He informed me that I will be scheduled to leave at 10 so I can leave once the closing announcements are made. At least that’s a start, right?

  Next, I’ll be contacting Corporate for a change in pay grade. Being on the same pay grade as a cashier is a bit insulting, especially when Electronics gets a pay grade higher.

  We do the cleaning, the carts, the zoning,… the poop, pee, blood, vomit…. the heat, the cold, rain, sun…. We do everything. We are the slave laborers of Target.
  UNITE!!! Let’s get paid more!

   

   

  PS… End rant.

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• August 6, 2013 - hashketchum

  This job gets in the way…

  of me getting into the field I want. I’m a broadcasting major with a small background in writing. I’m a sports fan – an NFL junkie to a certain extent. I want to make a career out of covering America’s most popular sport. It’s really hard to dive into the league when you’ve got Target wanting you to work when you would otherwise be watching games, recording podcasts, writing blog entries, or whatever.

  They say education is important, but they don’t mean it. There’ve been numerous occasions where those fuckers have put me on the schedule right in the middle of my classes. What part of “I’m not available” don’t they understand? They want me to concede and be one of their backroom drones and be a complacent, uninspired, unmotivated piece of nothing like all the other poor souls who’ve wasted away inside the walls of 1431. I’m not having any of that shit. The school year is just around the corner, and I’m going to have to play this stupid game all over again.

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• - cihysfstfu

  I heard of the Lawsuit letters in the mail T1846

  I myself haven’t received one “yet”. From what I hear it’s regarding coachings/corrective actions and all types of write up regarding absences. Our store can care less about your infant child being sick, our taking care of a sick elderly parent, or us being in the hospital with serious health conditions. Regardless of the reason or situation you might be going through eventually you’ll end up getting written up for it.

  You can technically miss 3 days in a three month period without getting harassed about your call outs. Once again if it was fair across the board then it’s ok but when “certain” people miss work for whatever reason it’s perfectly okay and the world stops for them. But when others call out they get treated like shit and their hours are cut.

  Its so unfair! So apparently there are a lot of team members at my store that have received this letter in the mail regarding a huge lawsuit here in California regarding all this mistreatment. I’m glad someone took the initiative to do something about it.

  Everyone is terrified to speak up in fear or retaliation. But I’m glad someone finally did it.

  I’m hoping to get a letter myself and I hope a lot of us get one actually. I’m happy for those who have a received one!

  Thank you to whoever took the initiative to get this lawsuit going!

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• - katiepurrs

  The UNION for T1846 and all Targets

  I think it’s time to make that call. Not only because we get shitty 4 hour shifts and not more than 20 hrs a week but because we have to put an end to all this retaliation and harassment from the ETL’s.

  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

  Team members get scheduled under the 30 hour margin that privileges you from obtaining health insurance. That’s why a lot of us don’t have insurance because we fall under the radar. How are we suppose to feed our kids working less than 20 hours a week? It doesn’t matter to them because they’re salaried and their kids are being fed and taken care of because they do have health insurance.

  That’s just another type of unfairness and abuse! We as “team members” should join as ONE team. Stand up for ourselves and to be each others backbone. Lets end this awful treatment coming from “the best company ever”. PLEASE!

  IF THERE’S A UNION PERSONNEL ON HERE OR A GOOD ATTORNEY PLEASE CONTACT ANY ONE OTHER THAN HIGHER MANAGEMENT AT THIS PARTICULAR STORE. WE NEED YOU.

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• August 5, 2013 - Chris. 349

  Target Benefits: Not this Time!

  A few months ago I went on paid vacation. I didn’t go anywhere fancy or anything, I just needed a break from the work atmosphere. When I came back on coincidently payday, I had a suprise almost as big as life. Target wasn’t going to pay me for the vacation hours I’d just used. Target thought it was okay to only pay me for the week that I worked. So in essence Target thinks I should pay the bills with only one weeks pay with a part time job. I talked with HR about it, even though I was furious. HR looked me straight in the eyes as if this were normal procedure and said, that because I didn’t submit my request for paid vacation on the E-HR it didn’t go through. I don’t like E-HR it always wants me to reset my password, which is why I asked to apply for paid vacation through a paper application. I don’t understand why Target is trying to force everyone to use electronics, when they don’t work properly msot the time. I had a gut feeling that was going to happen but I ignored it and threw away the recipt. I was eventually given a voucher and what I was owed in cash but this was the first in many incident to tell me things are going to start going very wrong.

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• August 4, 2013 - bananasuit

  T1846 and their stupid ideas

  So the Etl in charge of the front lanes came up with a stupid and ridiculous idea to “motivate” cashiers and team members to get red cards. She hung these ugly ass 3M Command hooks over on the wall by register 14 in plain view. She made individual “necklaces” out of yarn with team members names and last names for every Tom, Dick and Harry to see.

  Yeah talk about protecting our privacy!!! Anyways so when you work a shift you have to wear this ridiculous necklace which will get in the way as you scan and bag. When you get a red card you get a stupid ribbon you tie on to the piece of yarn. I guess until you make a fucking master piece from all the red cards you get as you tie this stupid ribbon on it you win!!! WOOOOOHOOOO! Here you go you get a fucking target dog!! Big fucking deal!!!

  i guess having a degree in picking lint out of your belly button helps create these wonderful activities. And those command hooks look so ghetto and not “target” brand at all. I hope Collin (DTL) visits the store soon and sees those stupid looking hooks with those stupid looking necklaces in plain guests view.

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