Category / TargetSucks

• July 27, 2013 - targetequalshell

  Target is run by morons

  This is my first post so I have a lot of steam to let off.

  I have worked at Target for almost 7 years and it has gotten worse and worse every single year. This Vibe shit is just some petty attempt to make Target stand out from other retailers. They’re trying to force moments for “guests” (I didn’t invite them) which I think cheapens everything. The same goes for all these stupid team cards that they’ve all but made mandatory. I work logistics and another stupid idea they’ve implemented at my store is a later truck unload. This means the flow team is working out the entire truck when the store is open, and I mean the entire truck. Every piece goes to the floor. The so called idea is for flow team to double as sales floor. Of course when the execs do everything in their power to get the flow team out by 10:30 a.m. ( we open at 8) it kind of defeats the purpose. The pallets and flats the flow team works off of pretty much blocks half the aisles which blocks people from getting to any merchandise.  This also has the added bonus of cutting sales floor people’s hours and fucks them over. Whoever came up with this idea has never worked at or shopped at a Target in his/her life. This cutting payroll because of sales thing is bullshit too. Less payroll means less people to put product out and/or help “guests” find products which means less sales. Its just a cycle of stupidity. The only thing my execs care about is making payroll so they can get their end of year bonus. The one thing that probably would increase sales at my store is a re-model to put in a pharmacy but they won’t do it because our sales are low. Half my job when I’m on the sales floor is to tell people we don’t have a pharmacy. Don’t know how much more of this I can take.

   

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• - hashketchum

  ETL turnover

  I work at Target #1431 in Falls Church, VA. I’ve been there for 3 years this August, and at this point, I’ve been here longer than every ETL. When I first started, the job was actually ok. Most of the ETLs had been with the store since it opened a decade or so ago. They knew what they were doing. You still hated them because they had that stupid arrogance about them, being ETLs and all, but they didn’t treat you like shit and we got work done. Over the past 3 years, one by one or two by two, they’ve all gone. Some of the spots have been replaced more than once. I don’t like a single one of the ETLs who are there now. The men are barely catching on to how the business works, and while the women are gorgeous, that’s about all they bring to the table. Sometimes I wonder what kind of shady things they had to do to get their job…

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• - thisjobsucks

  Sorry this is so long…

  Sadly I’m even leaving things out…

   

  I’ve been a flow team member for almost 4 years over 2 stores. During the 4^th quarter of 2012, I took a 6-week leave of absence because I literally couldn’t take it anymore. If you have a strong work ethic and attention to detail you’ll lose your mind working here.

  I was, what I like to call “cart bitch.” I had to process repacks from the truck and push all of the carts by myself. It’s generally impossible to do this all by yourself and at the end of the day when you have carts left over, they give you shit about it. They ask you to stay late EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. like you have nothing better to do than listen to them whine about things not being done for another two hours. SCHEDULE US when you need us. Don’t get mad when no one stays late.

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• July 22, 2013 - pushingredcartsblows

  The Bulls-eye is nothing but Bullshit.

  • push carts
  • spill stations
  • clean bathrooms
  • fill bags
  • clean spills
  • trash
  • crc/salvage
  • hangers
  • vacuum entrance/exit
  • back up front lanes
  • carryout
  • assist guests on floor
  • collect strays
  • and any other side job a lod. ap. gstl. anyone without the title cart attendant pretty much
  • cart attendant shifts suck ass too you have worst hour starts 10-630 there goes my fucken day right?

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• - BillyCoot

  Sale Scam

  Someone forgot to download the sales for the week and today (Sunday) all items in the ad was/is regular price. Targets decision: put out the sale signs and if someone calls their hand that the price is wrong, fix it. If they say nothing, they will be over charged. It would have been easy to pull the signs. But no, target decides to follow their enormous greed. And they have the gall to talk about guest service.

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• July 21, 2013 - Grub

  Fuck Everything About Working Here

  I was hired as a PA at Target in a little shit hole of a town in the southeast. When I was hired, I mentioned that my hours were CRITICAL as I was trying to pay my way through life. HR told me not to worry, I was on a higher pay scale and my hours would never be a problem. That’s when they began to fuck me over.

  3 weeks later I was finally called to orientation. To this day I think it’s fucking bullshit that you have to wait nearly a month after getting a job offer to start working at Target just so they can save some hours and time by having a bunch of people train all at once.

  For the first 2 weeks I got fuck all when it came to my hours. I wasn’t paid until my 5th week of starting the whole application process. I was broke and literally starving most days because Target doesn’t recognize that people might apply to work for them because – I dunno, they need money?

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• - antibullseye

  CASHIER TROUBLES

  This is my first post. I have read a ton of these but didn’t think I would end up writing one so here it goes…

  I am a cashier team member. I have been with target since Nov. during Hurricane Sandy. I was seasonal at the time and was offered to stay at the end of the holidays.  During my seasonal time I was cross trained for Guest Service and covering GSA breaks within a month of being there. Then a position opened up for GSA.  I applied knowing I was a very strong candidate, I knew this because the ETLs and STLs had told me so and had asked me to apply. So in March I applied.. I had my first interview which went great and then my second interview came along and I pretty much nailed that one too. I was certain that I was going to get the position. I am a hard worker, I put in extra hours, came on my days off, worked holidays even though I have to young children, and got along with everyone at the store.

  Come to find out I didn’t get the position.. The reason being “not enough experience on the front end” WHAT THE HELL? You people ask me to apply for it. I am fully trained for it and know how to do the position and you give it to a girl on the sales floor, who barely knows how to use the registers? She knows nothing about Guest Service and every time she is up there she asks me how to do something. I simply tell her to ask the LOD because I don’t want to answer her questions. She hasn’t even been scheduled for a GSA shift yet.

  Now it gets interesting….

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• - john doe

  “working off the clock” B.S

  so im a tps at a target in the south and today something idiotic happened. I had seen a lady with 2000 dollars of cleaning supplies and hba items in her cart and she had 300 coupons, so when my shift ended and i saw her checking out i sat down against the wall at the end of her lane and watched to see how muhc money she would get off with all of her coupons. turns out the gstl was rejecting her coupons because she was using them wrong and the lady got mad and started yelling. i hadnt removed my name tag yet so when she yelled at the LOD and complained she said that i was scrutinizing and harassing her, only because i was security and i was sitting down. The LOD, who at this point was mad because she got yelled at, asked me if i was off the clock when that happened. I of course told her yes, and the LOD said thats unacceptable and “we will be having a talk” which constitutes a write up/counseling. Because she said “i was sitting there observing so i was working off the clock”. I am a top performer at my store and in 8 months on the sales floor was over my own department before i went to tps, so i have never gotten in trouble and am always on time, And just because one guest, who was commiting fraud btw i might add, complains and yells, the LOD is going to counsel me to take out her frustration. Because i was “working off the clock”, a.k.a sitting on my ass apparently. Even thought i never spoke a word to the guest, or had anything to do with the transaction. but oh well, i guess thats target. A criminal complains to them so they penalize their employees.

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• July 19, 2013 - recklesswhispers

  “Don’t talk to your guests, it’s going to lower your score”

  So hello there fellow target haters! I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I have dealt with the biggest load of fuckery this past week. As anyone who has ever gotten the pleasure to have me as a cashier or a friend or just have met me or talked to me in general knows, I am a very friendly person and I enjoy engaging in conversation. So of course, I am going to talk to my guests and make sure that they enjoy their experience and come back. Well apparently, that’s frowned upon at Target! Yes, that’s right, I got told by my trollface manager that I shouldn’t talk to my guests because it will lower my score! As if I give a fuck about my score being lowered. To me, talking to the guest and making sure that they have a nice experience and like me and make sure they come back is more important, BUT NOT TO TARGET! OH NO, THEY WANT YOU IN AND THEN OUT RIGHT AWAY. This actually made me furious so of course, i did the mature thing, I TALK TO MY GUESTS MORE!

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• July 18, 2013 - hashketchum

  I need a new job

  This is my first post. I’ve read a ton of these, but I never thought I’d ever post one.

  Anyway, I finally lost my shit earlier this week. I work in the backroom, and not to be arrogant, but I’m easily the top guy back there. I was getting pulled in all different directions by my TL and the LOD between helping finish the CAFs because my teammates are some slow pieces of shit, and doing the merchandise sweep from hell by myself. It took my like 6 hours to pull 11 pallets worth of stuff. The whole time, my TL was checking up on me, and when the LOD asked me to help finish CAF, I didn’t really have a choice because she’s an ETL. Of course, my TL gave me shit about it for at least the next couple of hours because she didn’t see why I had to be on the CAF. We kinda got into a bit, but I didn’t say anything outrageous. I’m a nice guy, mostly mild-mannered, and I do everything they ask, but that was just ridiculous. Then to top it all off, after that was done, the 2 guys that were supposed to do the CAF by themselves got off, and me and the TL were the only ones left. Who the hell made that schedule?!! Of course, the TL is worthless, and she went to lunch. I did the next hour of CAFs, which came out to 1:19, by myself. Keep in mind that I’m still not done with the damn sweep! I finished that CAF, finished pulling the sweep, wrapped the pallets, and put them in the storage area. I was at work an extra 2 hours, and the $20.32 just wasn’t worth it. Some point during all of this shit, when I was by myself, I got pissed and slammed my PDA on the ground. It sparked, and I could smell smoke or something. I picked it up, pushed buttons, and it was dead. I didn’t care. I just signed it in, and got a new one. I think eventually, they’re gona know it was me, and I’m pretty sure that’s a fireable offense. I wonder how much time I have until I’m terminated. I need a new job ASAP so I can quit and still be able to say that I’ve never been fired. However, I’ve wanted out for about 2 years, so maybe getting fired wouldn’t be so bad…

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