For Better or worse, I Q U I T Target!!  If you are young and looking for a job to hopefully advance in a retail career….DON’T WORK FOR TARGET!!!  Do anything else, there has to be SOMETHING BETTER!!

Let me warn those young in”s with my story!  I signed up for Target for holiday help when I needed to find a second job working some nights and weekends.  I am not a young kid but an adult—just needed some extra money for the houshold.  I have worked many retail jobs in the past so bascially the job would require keeping the place clean, assisting customers and doing some lite cashier help when needed…no big deal….I chose Softlines because I worked more in clothing depts in the past.

BOY! were my eyes opened on my first day.  Keeping the place clean….well I know customers can be messy but I was unprepared for some incidents.  Teen gangs who came in high as a kite, throwing food on clothes—food on YOU!! purposely messing up your department and laughing at you as you picked up—-security? Oh Yeah! something goes wrong–call security! 

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What really bothers me about Target is the strange assumptions made by the people who aren’t LODs. You know those irritating people who aren’t a LOD but act like tin-plated dictators?

I’m a victim of the financial downturn who started a new career but still needs more money to make ends meet. I shop at Target and thought I’d like working there. I work in softlines and also cashier. The amount of stupidity and inefficiency is amazing.

The “guests” who blame me when a bag of Pizza Rolls breaks when I touch it, or when the check reader rips their check in two drive me nuts. What’s worse is some snot-nosed, power-hungry dolt telling me “less blah blah blah and more work” when I’m getting my softlines cart organized and passing the time with the fitting room clerk. “Less blah blah blah?” Really? This when I see this person chatting away with her little favorites?

I need to get away from this mess. Well, when I snap and give the snot-nosed dolt my opinion of her limited abilities, I’ll be on my way.

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While attending college, I took up a part time job at target. The HR manager grit her teeth when she told me what I would be making if I accepted the job. It was well below minimum wage. By her reluctance to tell me this, I could see most people were turning the job down and probably walking out of the interview. I’m a young college student at this point. I just need something   while I’m in college.

My friend worked at the store as a career. He was there five years. This is a guy that never called in sick. Never took a day off. Yet, when promotion came up he was always over looked for a new jack. I knew instantly that there was no way in hell I would ever amount to anything working at this place if my friend’s perfect record and stellar work ethic was considered jack shit to Target.

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Okay, this will probably be a long post, because I’m listing off everything I’ve personally experienced at the Target I work at, bear with me, they will be a tl;dr (Too Long; Didn’t Read) at the bottom.

I was first hired in September as a flow team member, I had no idea what that was, being fresh out of high school and desperately needing a job I took it. The person who hired me told me “Oh, you’ll just be moving a few boxes around in the morning” seemed easy enough.

Keep in mind I was a long and lanky guy, with no muscle at all.

It’s a descent job, I unloaded the truck, bowled out the boxes (THROWING them into the correct isle) cut open the boxes, and put the product on the shelf. All from 6 am to about 10 or 11am. The bad part is, I needed sleep for this job, and when i slept is when my friends were ready to hang out. Personal problems right?

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So let me start by explaining a typical day at our wonderful Guest Service desk. I come in at 3:30pm and from that time until 11:00pm I am completely alone without no one to help me or to talk to when I need someone to bitch too(unless I call for help which takes awhile because no one pays attention). Anyways. All day you get to handle the incredibly brilliant people known as “Guest”. Because of how smart our guest are(by now I hope you know I’m joking. most people are idiots) I get pissed off about every time someone sprints up to my desk. You get the rude people, the stupid people, the smelly people, the sick people, the screaming children people, the bad parents, the cellphone people, the people who don’t know what the want and so on.

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I was going to write a novel about this place —- Target.  I could have written about how they screwed me in my senior year in college or how they screwed me for a promotion these past couple of months.  There’s probably no need to explain anything because most of the people on here have experiences the same thing over and over.  It is the Target culture.

If you don’t fit a certain style or persona that they want, you are going to be screwed out of a promotion.  They (management) form a clique and they essentially vote on who they would like to promote.  That individual can suck like ass but if he or she is kissing ass then they will get that promotion.  I was the best PA in my store and I opened almost 90% of the time because I was good at it and my work rate was far above others.  I could tell you that I was employee of the month for all 3.5 years that I was there but it means nothing because the fellow who kissed ass was promoted.  My CTL and him gel like peanut butter and jelly but yet I am blamed for everything going wrong even though they did the least amount of work.

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Target is liter4ally making me sick. After all the crap I’ve gone thru in the last 2 years it’s finally getting to me. I went to the doctor last week because I have been having frequent nosebleeds and thought I had cancer or something had blood work and an MRI done and everything is normal. Doctor said it could be stress related. On top of that I have developed ulcers and it has caused me to lose 15 lbs in 3 months. I’m now barley 105 and I’m 5″4. To make things worse my gstl has made it perfectly clear that she hates me and wants to see me fired. I didn’t get the gsa n I deserved and I know everything it’s just going to get worse.I’m trying so hard to get out of target but no one is hiring.

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