Some friends just shared this site with me,my first of many blogs.
Rather than rambling, each will be short and sweet, to enhance greater interest. My first years with T were good, until they changed their business plan. Most stores will rotate their management teams about every 18 months, to broaden their experience in different settings, I was forced out by a manager who had been in place, way over that period. For the sole purpose of getting others to quit or be fired.
I knew a Team Lead who was in the store with me for quite some time, as she walked by my Dept, I said hi to her, and she was just out of view, when she turned to come back to say that her last day was today, and that she was transferring to another location. When I asked why, I could see tears forming, as she told me that the STL was trying to find fault in everything she did, and she was written up for not enough cross trained team members, where in fact, she had more than any other store in the district. I don’t know her fate, after she left. She had 10 + yrs of service and benefits, you do the math.
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(0) So the shit keeps running literally at this whacked out store! So lately people have been getting written up for not being FFF if that’s the case then fuck there should be a shit load of people on their finals.
There are team leads who are not FFF at all in fact one certain TL has gotten a lot of complaints on a store level and even to corporate but she hasn’t gotten a final and the reason I know for a fact that she hasn’t is because the complaints are multiples and if she had been on a final she would of been fired by now.
Likes(4)Dislikes(1) Ok, this is my third post in pretty short order, but it’s so necessary. I love coming on here to vent.
I work in the backroom. If I had like a Target hit list, whoever resets planograms would be number one. The ETL that gets on our case about backstocking would be second. When they reset planograms, and fill it with new stuff, guess where the old stuff goes…the backroom. Almost every time this happens, we get a flatbed with at least 10 repack boxes full of stuff. When the ETLs come upstairs on their walk (god, I hate the walk), they see that shit and lose their minds and from then on, they’re on our case about who’s working on backstock the rest of the day as if we let the backstock get out of hand. Motherfucker! stop giving us all this plano BS to add to our normal flow, and maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.
Likes(8)Dislikes(0) So like many on this awesome site I have been exposed to how awful Target can truly be. I was blind and gullible in the beginning when they used innovative ways to refer to wage slaves and how we appease the “guests” with their purchases. In the months I have been hired to work I saw what Target is truly like: a REDcard spewing machine that will happily spit in your mother’s face if that means you will open up a REDcard with us today. The team leaders love to do what I have appropriately deemed as lurking: hovering over your shoulder to make sure you ask EVERY guest about the damned card. It has gotten to be so awful that I was not coached once but THREE times within the past 2 weeks to “step up” my game and “drive home those sales”. Who in all honesty cares about the 5%? Sure that seems like a lot when you rack up your bill to the 500-900 dollar range (and living in a tourist town I see that happen easily within a day) but buy an avocado. Buy an apple. Knock a dime off the asking price and add the sales tax in and you may have a discount on your hands. We need to wake up and smell the roses: the 5 percent is a LIE. It is a trick to make guests shop with Target more and successfully brainwash those willing to lay on their backs, spread their legs, and take the bull right up the divide. It broke my heart to truly see past the smoke and mirrors that they display to guests and see the lifeless, heartless machine chug along.
Likes(1)Dislikes(0) This is my first post, but I felt I had to write instead of just putting up comments of encouragment. A few days ago I picked up a copy of Target’s magazine called RED. On the cover was a preview of the main article in which a few ETL’s shopped with “guests” and gave each of them a great experience. The article even went so far to suggest that the “guests” were so happy with their service that they came back and thanked the team members. I don’t know about any of you but no one has ever come to Target just to thank me. I found the magazine to be very insulting, not only does a store not run like that but if coporate thinks that’s the way retail is they must be doing drugs or something. If they think that a “guest” is going to by two of the most expensive TV’s than they’re chasing the purple dragon of retail.
I glanced at the next article which was a mix of topics from new openings to celebrities endorsing Target. I don’t shop at Target because some celebrity I’ve never even heard of endorses it. I shop at Target to take advantage of the 5% discount which basiclly takes out the taxes in the purchase. I also do a little shopping at Target so I don’t have to use gas going to another store.
Likes(2)Dislikes(0) I been with this company for over seven years now. I thought that working for the top retail company in the world you would have great opportunity’s to grow in the company. Well that is not the case at all… All the do is screw you over! They say “O your ready to be promoted” and you do all this extra work to get promoted and have other leaders help you promote, and at the end of the day some Business Partner or District Manager has to step in and say no. I guess the new thing for Target in order to promote is green means go! They expect all of our scores and metrics to be green in order to promote. But hey if your an ETL that doesn’t matter its only if your a normal team member. The whole Target saying “Expect More Pay Less” what that really means is that they expect more and pay us employees less!!! If your looking to promote with a company don’t pick Target! You will not get any promotion with this company, they just drag you along and at the end of the day your the one that will be disappointed and screwed. Overall, don’t work for Target!!!
Likes(4)Dislikes(0) So I been working at Target for 8 mos as a cashier, I JUST got my name tag, and while pleading with gsa to leave my lane to clock out at exactly 9:45 she told to stay a few more minutes, I clocked out at 9:47, the LOD made it seem like Target was going to die because I clocked two minutes late.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Here I am after reading a shit load of posts about how all these other people hate target and I thought, man I would love to entertain the social media with my story of Tarjay as well.
I started a year ago in July. I really didn’t need a job but my mom kept nagging me to get one. I got hired right away. I was working after 2 weeks. I had an open availability due to summer break therefore I worked whatever the hell they wanted me to work. I wasn’t allowed to work past 9:45 EXACTLY because I was considered a minor. Who the hell gets scheduled to work to 9:45? Just another way for to Target to get around state laws.
Likes(0)Dislikes(1) So, I was hired recently at a Northeastern store. I applied for a cashier position because I have experience in it and I really do enjoy interacting with people, but apparently Target thought I’d do better working in the Pizza Hut…sorry, FoodAve. That’s fine, a job is a job. Nobody told me the shit, I would have to deal with, though. Let’s make a list, shall we?
1)I just got the fucking job. I don’t know what I’m doing. Trust me, if I had a choice I would not choose to be over here with a bunch of bitchy girls who act like I am committing a cardinal sin by asking for instruction and help. FYI, there is only one team lead and neither of you (especially you Tubby One) are her. Stop talking down to me like I’m fucking stupid. I have a degree. A DEGREE! What have you done with your life besides make PPP’s and suck manager dick for hours?
Likes(2)Dislikes(0) So i got hired back in October-late November cant remember when but it was right around before Christmas time and i was super excited i just got a job after my summer one so i i didn’t have to worry about money for a little while, so i fill out an application online and in store, they chose the in-store one. I go in dressed to impress and shit thinking this is the best thing ever, i interviewed with the LOD and he really liked what i had to say and he liked how much i knew about technology hell, i am pretty much a tech buff i follow pretty much everything, and i am big gamer as well, so immediately i start working in electronics after 3 days on the floor, and i saw the raise in my payment by .50 cents that i liked. So Christmas time rolls around things going good getting used to where everything was and knowing people and ish. Um need i say more for the people who worked at target during seasonal time, its a bitch, 2000 million fucking carts of re-shop that they expect you to finish while they hover over you every 20 minutes to see if anything has changed while you have guest and aisle to zone. So you have to be mr./mrs. impossible. Around that time i wasn’t too annoyed you know i needed the money and ish for gas and going out and new computer parts. I got what i prayed for several days after Christmas/seasonal time was over it slowed down and it went back to normal and nice pace.
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