I’m a highschooler who works at target. Starting out here, I thought it was awesome. So many others from my school work here and it is quite popular in my town. I was also impressed by the wages (although I quickly learned that it was nothing special at all). I was happy about working for target for about a month before I realized something wrong. The red cards. My god they push them so hard. I hated it. I began to get talked to about how I was not asking enough and how I needed to push it. After a few more weeks they decided I wasn’t good enough so they coached me.
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(3) So it’s been almost 2months at target. Great at first, they’re amazing at sugar coating stuff and train they’re “team” members to do the same thing. I am ready to get into a sweet rant about everything that happens in that place.
1. I’m not sure if all stores do this (and it might be the only nice thing my store does) but they reward us with crappy food for “all of our hard work”. Uhhhh….HELLO??? how about you treat us like actual human beings or maybe try paying us more than just minimum wage and that would be a much better reward than stale nachos, canned soda (which is luxury btw), or cold food.
Likes(26)Dislikes(4) I’m so happy to see I’m not the only cart attendant that does everything. In a typical day I do the carts of course, dispose of the trash from target cafe, the outside, and from behind guest service, take back the defectives fro guest service including salvage, crc, and vendor pickup items, empty the hangars, make sure the battery cart on the checklanes is full with batteries from electronics, occassionally do a cart of reshop or one or two pulls if its not the holidays, take care of cardboard including making bales if needed, and responding to carry outs/ spills/ backup cashier requests(fuck those) when needed.
And I do it all with a smile, because one day I’m going to blow, and that will be my last day at target.
Likes(37)Dislikes(3) First off I just have to say, THIS WEBSITE IS FUCKING AWESOME (and on a side note it actually works unlike EHR’s bullshit). I’ve spent hours reading people’s posts on here and never knew that there were so many other tm’s that felt the same way I do. I mean obviously most people usually dislike work, but working at target (as many of you know) brews a hatred so deep it transcends any normal hatred for a job. I’ve been working at target for over two years now, and my experience is like many of yours. I had never worked retail but was forced to apply because I was applying EVERYWHERE in the town I currently live in and no one was hiring- except target.
Likes(29)Dislikes(5) So I’ve worked at an Australian Target for the past 2 years and let me tell you it’s been hell from the start of my first shift.
I never decided to actually post about this hell hole until now, however I frequently scroll through here before my shifts to make me feel like my anger towards going to work and dealing with all the shit thrown at me is shared, which makes me feel slightly less alone about my hateful thoughts and feelings towards this place.
Likes(20)Dislikes(7) So I was hired as a seasonal worker. I was pretty excited about working got hired as a cart attendant/ cashier for the most part i enjoyed it as it was a smaller target. Never was really bother for a cart attendant except for any spills . I ended up enjoying the cart attended job more than cashiering. The negative part of it was cashier as they did kind of push the red cards. The negatives were me being told to make sure you go to the front of registers to bring guests in and i got told how I was not doing that.
Likes(6)Dislikes(2) I was very excited at first working for Target, I was there for 2 weeks. In that two weeks, I was treated like I do not matter.
First day I was there, we did all the paperwork, and it lasted a very long time, mind you, I asked them nicely if we would be done by 5pm. (It took me 2 hours to get there by bus, train and a long walk) we did not finish until after 8, so I had to be out in the dark, which in a big city, alone was very scary.
They gave me a set time to be there, and I was always early, so I used to sit in the break room and read, I was told off for being TOO early…so I was very upset.
Likes(35)Dislikes(10) Obviously everyone knows Target Canada is doing bad in Canada. As a former employee I can tell you that they are doing EXTREMELY bad. On our monthly reports we would be short of 50% goal! That’s crazy!
Now, analysts have looked through the data based on the holiday season and have concluded that it is going to be IMPOSSIBLE for Target Canada to break even in the next 3 years! So if you currently work for Target Canada, I HIGHLY recommend looking for a new job! Now!
Likes(14)Dislikes(5) Im a cart attendant and holy fuck is it shitty. I literally do EVERY FUCKING THING IN THAT STORE!! I cashier, i clean bathrooms, i get carts, i get baskets, i clean spills, i stock closets, i take trash back, i take hangers back, i redistribute baskets. No i don’t zone and shit but still. A cashier has if so easy. Stat indoors and check people out. I work outside in shittiest of weathers with no one to help me. On weekends its like they don’t realize theres more people and that means more carts. A single cart attendant cant keep up with a saturday day during the holidays. Fuck you target. Cant wait to quit your bitch ass store. The LOD don’t do shit but yell at me for not keeping up with bathrooms. Sorry do you want carts or bathrooms clean?
Likes(23)Dislikes(6) Here I will list every issue with this store that has personally gotten me incredibly irritated, as well as upset and/or angry at one point or another. Also this is from the perspective of a salesfloor worker, with some training in cashier duty. Let us begin, shall we? c:
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