October 29, 2011 - electronics_slave
Hated since day one.
I started at a brand new target last year in september. i was a beginner and it was my first job. I work in electronics. When i started i had a few people training me. all of which lost their job for some unknown reason sometime halfway through the training. I never finished any training and was kind of just signed off. for the longest time i had no idea what i was doing…so i was selling gift cards with gift cards and i was just kinda doing shit because i didnt know anything else. finally i asked some other monkeys in electronics and i figured it out. The only time i have ever really had a guest (God forbid i ever call them fucking customers) upset with me is when they are trying to buy something that requires LOD approval. I call for LOD…and they take a half a year to get to the electronics desk and help out. by then…the guest either hates the shit out of me…or i tell them how much of a tard the manager is (LOD isn’t an everyday term with regular people). So to avoid that i slide my own ID. I see their ID and can see that its real…i slide mine. I make my own judgement call. im not selling minors beer and shit. Im selling a 36 year old dude a rated M game and his ID isnt sliding through right and im not gonna make him wait a day for the manager to stop sitting her fat ass in food ave eating free samples and talking to her gstl friend. Then when they finally do show up and type in their god number…they stand there and watch me finish the transaction. I can feel them staring at me. as soon as the prompt for that peice of shit red card comes up i always press f8 to cancel out of it. because this guy wants to go the fuck home and play his game. and the LOD chimes in “Umm hey. Sir do you want to sign up for a red card?” and the guy of course says no thanks. “Are you sure?” you get this and that and the other thing” and in response he continues to say no. he pays…leaves…plays his game. im jealous because he was at home playing a game…while i was being scolded for not asking if he wants to sign up for a redcard that will more than likely be declined by the shitty system we use.
So in another event…i was scolded for wearing black pants. In the target handbook it states somewhere that any color pants can be worn as long as they are a solid color. and then in another spot it states that you can wear khakis (Black, Tan, Or Brown). I wore BLACK Khakis thats even what the tag said. Black khakis. I was called out over the walkie by one of the abundance of LODs. “What is our uniform?” i tell them red shirt and khakis…”What are you wearing?” and i tell them red shirt and khakis…and she says “Those arent khaki…those are black”…bitch this isnt crayola. khaki is not a color. these are black khakis. try saying tan or beige or whatever the shit color is that ur wearing. Oddly enough, she quit because someone made her stop doing nothing and start pushing shit to the floor.
So i got a new LOD recently. it literally didnt take more than a few seconds for me to hate her. In electronics where i work its not just sitting around doing nothing. im the only one back there and i am always doing something. constantly in motion. Zoning toys, zoning electronics, zoning seasonal, zoning baby hardlines, repackaging shit that guest service should’ve repackaged, helping guests, ringing people up, the list goes on. its not hard but its more than enough to fullfill that 14 cent raise those cheap pricks gave me. So a long night and i have alot of reshop left still and all the LOD has to say to me is that i have been doing nothing the whole night and that i need to give her a reason my reshop isnt done. and no matter what i tell the bitch she continues to tell me that i cant leave until everything is done. even other peoples reshop. so if i finish mine…i have to go help someone else or i cant leave. good thing i hella didnt wanna deal with her shit so i dipped out without her knowing. but i heard from her later. she doesnt miss a thing.
Same LOD the next night exactly. I am told all the time ever since i started there that i have to take my break at 9. and im told to stick to the break time. no problem. except at my target…im alone in electronics. so someone from hardlines has to cover me everytime i take a break. and sometimes im told that i have to wait because theyre all busy or some shit like that. no problem. i deal with it. so i wait. and wait….and wait…and finally the store is closed. i have not taken my break. and i have a half hour left. so i just finish my reshop and go put some carts away and try to go take my break. up at the front of the store the LOD spots me and says “Hey what are you working on?” and i says u know i just finished my shit and im gonna go take my break now. and she gives me a mad look and asks why im taking my break so late…so i tell her. and she says “I need you to zone infant hardlines and help with the reshop in toys…i suggest you practice taking your break at 830.” and after that i DIDNT GET MY BREAK.
Time to start job hunting. Sick of this shit. and these little stories arent even scratching the surface. Fuck redcards.
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wtf are u serious??? I thought they were hella paranoid about ppl gettin their breaks cuz they are super afraid of being sued. Only time target cares about u is when it comes to being sued. I'm quitting tm. Least u don't cashier, we get fired for not having redcards and are constantly scolded about it regardless if you have 20 one week and none the next. SUCH A SHITTY COMPANY! They made me never wanna work again.
My TL always had me set up a POG 15 minutes before shift ended, it was her job and then she'd tell me she never left till her work was done, encouraging me to be out of compliance. My job was zoning, hers was POG - hmmm