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  • February 19, 2013 - F Target 15 hours

    15 hours. Seriously??

    I’ve been working at Target now for about 5 months now. I was hired as a seasonal team member but then they kept me and offered me a permanent job after it. I thought maybe Target is a good place to work for, it’s an awesome place to shop blah blah, haha. At first when I started, I didn’t notice a lot of the discrepancies I see now. Lazy ass workers, bitch ass LOD’s, stupid rules like covering the diamonds of the shelf. Are you fucking kidding me? Haha. So I remember a dumbass LOD telling me when I was zoning ” Covering the diamonds are the most important Thing a guest is gonna look at first when coming to buy something.” Haha bullshit!! I thought In my head haha. It’s a disgrace not being able to work more hours, it’s a disgrace how target cuts it’s hours from its workers to save money for the 4th quarter. How the hell are people who are working there gonna survive off of 15 hours a week?? Some people have mortgages, or rent and kids and with those hours the company expects people to love off of. It’s a disgrace. I hate how there’s so many bosses. Everyday or week there’s different ones. Wtf is the point of that. I like a few bosses and my team lead one of them. She’s super chill. The bosses I like and my supervisor are cool because they actually help us work and are understanding of how busy it can get which makes it difficult to zone, the others act like they’re so perfect that there shit don’t stink. Literally they do. It makes me wanna call them out and be like your a fucking idiot. They don’t have to worry about shit, they have salaries and arent paid hourly like us. It’s gay. I highly wouldn’t recommend this job, I’d speak to an actual employee first about it. I wish I would have done that first. Oh and the motto of one of my co workers here is “another day another penny”. Get it? Because of the wages haha. Bullshit hahahaha

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  • February 11, 2013 - buymeamovie1st

    And the DumbAss award goes too…..

    So as I am still slaving at this place one day I am in Electronics*thunder crashes*  and this guy comes to buy a Wii game.  he thought he would get a gift card but the rule was he had to reserve a game also.  Not knowing how this worked I called the clowns at guest service…who didn’t know, then I called for the GSTL..didn’t know..then finally the LODLAZYFU..who wasn’t sure but would come back..meanwhile I’m looking like a dumb asshole waiting for these idiots to arrive while helping a dumbass lady who can’t understand that LCD and LED are different ARRRGGGGHHHH.  So the head clown shows up and says he has to reserve a game only problem is he only has a Wii and there are no Wii game reserve cards.  The clown says oh nit can be any reserve game.  I then have to spend more than 5 minutes explaining to her why the fuck would he reserve a game for a console he doesn’t own?  Finally she just changed the price.  DUMBASS.  at Target the morons run the Asylum…

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  • I moved to a new city 10 months ago and I started shopping at the local Target every week.

     

    As I had done for the last 10 months, I parked my car in the Target parking lot and let my dog out of the back of my car (on the leash) and let it urinate in a planter.  I would then walk back to my car with my dog still on the leash, put it back into my car, lock the car, and enter Target to shop.

    Recently, as I was walking with my dog back to my car, a Target security drone walked toward me as I was about 10-12 feet from my car.

    He started to lecture me that I couldn’t have my dog with me.

    Huh?

    He told me that the parking lot was private property and that I couldn’t have my dog on private property.

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  • February 6, 2013 - overwhelmingstupidity

    New GSA is a 27-yr-old HS dropout

    You guys have no idea how happy I am to find you. I’m from a store just north of Dallas.

     

    My store recently promoted a random softlines chick to GSA, passing over a guest services guy who has been at the store for years and busted his ass for the position.  He’s my buddy, and though I don’t understand why he wants that horrible job, I still feel bad for him. He raged pretty hard when he found out about this idiot.

     

    This chick is monumentally stupid. She grew up in the circus (no lie) and was home schooled, so she was still a “senior” when she was 23. She never finished HS or got a GED. Her parents are still in the circus or something because she goes on leave twice a year with them to do magic or something – she’s gone for part of the summer and from October through January. So they hired some chick who’s never even worked Christmas or Black Friday as a GSA. WTF.

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  • February 2, 2013 - buymeamovie1st

    Might as well pay us in pennies….

    So on reason 456 why I’m leaving this Shit hole.  The ETLVDSOB tell us the other day in the annoying ass huddle that we are Number one in the region for guest service or some bullshit liek we gave a shit.  A couple of days later the same ETLVDSOB tells me and a few others that he was “warning” us that the next week all of Hardlines got virtually no hours from the bloodsuckers at corporate   For the team we have that’s about  FIVE FUCKING HOURS A SHIFT FR THE WEEK.  So I told the fucker that isn’t it great how we “are number one” but that’s what we get.  Fucking pathetic.  SO fucking glad to be getting out of this place,  These last couple of days Ive been talking :guests: OUT of buying shit.  So far I’v talked a guest out of buying a TV, a PS3, HDMI cables and pretty much anything in Piss Fresh.  If you think this place is better than Walmart, sure it is, but it’s like being in Hell’s backyard and not in the house.  Fuck Target till it bleeds rectally and dies!

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  • January 31, 2013 - Jonestown

    The Neiman Marcus Fiasco

    OK.  So by now everyone knows that the Neiman Marcus/Target coupling was an epic fail.

    At least corporate got smart and dumped the ugly ass stuff when it was at 70% off and didn’t go 90%.

    Of course if you bought it you can’t return it, but hey at least you can brag you bought your daughter the ugliest bicycle on the planet for $150 instead of $400.  (She’d probably be less mortified and teased on a banana seat.)

    The question is, how will this multi-million dollar flop hurt employees?

    At least where I am they didn’t salvage the stuff by “best practice”  (english: throw out).  So you will probably see some homeless woman running around in a designer dress and local drunk man in a Navy blazer.  LOL.

    Thoughts, fears, tales to tell already?

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  • January 20, 2013 - Jonestown

    Target is the right name

    I so need to get out of there.

    If there is one common thing throughout this site is that if you don’t fit a certain clique, style, cult, whatever — you are doomed.

    HR, STLs, ETLs and TLs truly do Target team members.  There are conversations about who “we need to get rid of.”

    Pretty much if you’re not liked, you’re on the list.  If you have personality, you’re on the list.

    I had to tell HR “absolutely not, she generates more Red Cards than most of the staff,” when they tried to ear-mark a top performer for “counseling” or “coaching” because she has a out-going personality.  So much for fast, fun and friendly.

    Another one was let go, though improving and all, because the STL, HR, ETL and other TLs found her to be too outspoken and questioning.  Despite all her texperience and knowledge we basically were told to “get rid of her.”

    Another team member, unbeknownst to her, has been marked because, “she’s pregnant and will be leaving in a few months anyway.”

    I have worked in some companies with questionable tactics but this is unbearable.

    I was truly asked to come up with a list of team members to “get rid of.” Now I have to focus on “coaching” and “counseling” them to get them out.  When I brought up an underperfoming favorite of the leadership, I was told no.  When I rated a top performer as “Amazing” I was told I can’t do that because they hadn’t been there long enough, though another top performer who is well liked went through.

    Get it — Target is the behaviors of management.

    I can truly understand why so many employees just walk out.

     

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  • - Technoknight

    Very child-like mentality

    I read posts from former employees and it is amazing how different people from different stores have the same unpleasant experiences working at Target and my experiences are no different from anyone else.  I was hired as a seasonal employee even though I applied for a full time regular employee position in their website. I was on food stamps before I was hired, I am pretty sure that was their main reason to hire me.  Two days after filling out the application, I got a call for a interview.  I knew something was not right when during the phone conversation, I stated I was excited and the person that called me said to me “good for you”.  The hell??

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  • I just want to say I am glad to see a lot of people hating on Target. At first I was excited to work here at electronics, but of course if you ever worked at Target, you know that’s not the only position you will have. I was getting paid $7.35 for doing Electronics, Cart pushing, Janitor, Bike assembly, Hard lines, and register…all that for pocket change!!! Thanks Mr. Krabs. All I can say is this, if you get a phone call from a Target store saying to come in for the interview, make sure you bring up my statement and see if I didn’t warn you. If anyone wants to laugh and point fingers, check out this video of my store closing and the fake stupid paid customers supporting interviews just like that lame video of them fake customers lmao. Thank you for reading my speech and may this place rot!!!

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  • January 12, 2013 - Jonestown

    Should have read this all first

    When I accepted the job at Target I was completely excited.

    I was hired as a lead and encouraged by the conversations during the interview process.

    Several months later I’ve come to the conclusion that it is a cult.  You have to learn “Target speak.”  Everything has an acronym and is measured in Red, Yellow or Green.  Should you not adhere to the cult rules you are either exiled (fired) or pushed to the point that your only hope is escape.

    There is a reason that management is relatively young.  It’s easy to manipulate inexperienced, immature people fresh out of college and mold them to believe you are the God of all retail and business.

    The scariest thing, next to “you must learn Target speak,” that I was told by my ETL was, “you’ll do much better if you just drink the Kool-Aid.”  Seriously!

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