So I started out at one store as a flow team member and I was really happy and very proficient at my job. My HR and STL thought I would be a good fit for a TL so I agreed and they set me up for the interviews, however they didn’t have any openings at my store so my interviews were with another store. I happen to live in between the two stores so at the time distance was not really an option. So I went and interviewed and did extremely well on all the interviews and they offered me the job.
I just happen to start the week before Christmas as the Consumables Team Lead and it was two weeks prior to our PFresh remodel. Oh and not to mention they hadn’t had a CTL for like 2 months or so. So first order of business was to get my department on track with all the stupid suspect date audits and then to see whats going on with the remodel. Well everything seemed to be going well and then I started back to school in January and everything just started going down hill from then on. My ETL complained because I was in School and had limited availability but yet other TL’s and TM’s were in school and never heard the ETL’s bitch because of that. I was under the impression that Target wanted you to go to school and better your self. So I got through that semester with no problem and then they wanted me to change up my school schedule so I would have different availability for closing shifts. So I changed it up. Oh and I decided to change departments on my own because the CTL job was just to stressful for me and I got looked down on for stepping up and asking for help and to change areas.
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I’ve seen petitions circling around, asking Target’s CEO and Head-Asshole, Gregg W. Steinhafel to decide against the decision to open on Thanksgiving Day. The petitions are useless, as this jackass doesn’t really have an empathetic bone in his body, and only gets hard when he sees dollar bills; which is why his wife is forced to wear lingerie that has money printed on it—that was, of course, sewn together by a sad, sad, lonely Chinese child. This man is a money hungry dickwad. In 2011, his total calculated compensation (the salary he’s earned thus far, and no doubt requested in all-ones so that he could roll around in it naked) was $19,707,107.
Likes(3)Dislikes(2) I TRULY,TRULY ,HATE TARGET WITH EVERY BEING IN MY FIBER..I have worked for those selfish,blood sucking leaches for 5 long ass years and let me tell you it takes a strong stomach to digest the bullshit I have endured over the years. SHORT summary working their,your bound to commit yourself in the asylum. OK 1st yr coworker are banging the ETLs in the electronics room. Coworkers have sex in the dirty ass,smelly roach infested staircase. Yr 2 Short pay, long hours and no type of care for employees what’s so ever. 3 ye got prgenant lost it due to stress from work, being told to carry baby wipes off palettes while pregnant anyway. One of my door key holders only teamleads says to me after I loose my 2nd child due from stress and overwork from this hellover job, how many more babies can I loose..Really are you freaking kidding me? NO WAIT THERES MORE, so I report to my HR like any sane, disrespected, employee and you know they did, NOTHING…During my harsh times a couple of death in the family, I was told to try to over look my pain for the sake of the company on a no truck, just pull night.
Likes(1)Dislikes(0) WTF Has anyone seen Target’s Black Friday commercials. Two women texting each other and a man and female standing over them singing the texts out loud. Who’s the fucking moron that came up with that? I vowed to spend the absolute minimum there. I would say none but shit happens and I’m locked in so yeah the bare minimum just because I hate Target and their commercials are r******d.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Well, I just quit Target and I already feel better. I was plagued by incompotent, irrational managers. They always complained and corrected everyone around them even though they, themselves never obeyed the rules that they so righteously enforced. It amazed me that these people who have to have a college degree to be an ETL are this stupid. Example: I showed up to work one Sunday morning to set up the new ad. It was 6 am and the team was ready to go…except the ETL’s that were supposed to be there. I got the team started and found out that the ad wasn’t even finished being scanned in. Arrgh! I proceeded to finish scanning while the team put up what was ready. At 6:30am the ETL’s stroll in. They didn’t even ask what was going on or offer to help. They then took an hour lunch at 10 am and the ad wasn’t even done yet. That Monday I told the STL what had happened and she did nothing about it. Some nerve! The next week I get pulled into the office for being “grumpy” at work. WTF! In any other job when someone is grumpy you leave them alone and chalk it up to a bad day, not pull them into the office and piss them off more! They give more consideration to the employees there and hardly any to the lower managers. Employees can complain about a manager and the ETL’s and STL will crucify the lower manager. In other jobs when a manager gets on your case you do your fucking job, not run to a higher manager and complain. Target is backwards. Employees have the power and lower management gets crapped on. That’s why I had enough and quit 20 minutes before my shift started. BEST DAY EVER!!
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I love my job. I love that I work with the laziest dumbest fucking fuckheads on the planet. But enough about the team leads and LOD’s. I love that there are many times when I come in a whole 2 to 3 hours before certain team members or team leads but since they like to kiss ass, they get their breaks and lunches before I do. I love the rude, ugly, fat, stupid fuckhead guests who constantly argue with me because they are all rocket scientists and know my companies policies on certain things a lot better than I do. I mean, after all, they are all welfare recipients, so obviously they are the authorities and the poster boys and girls for what a genius looks like..
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Hello my fellow team members, since Black Friday is coming up next week I would like to know if anyone has any interesting stories they would like to share and if there have been any bad experiences dealing with “pests” on Black Friday. This year we open at 9pm which sucks for team members who want to spend Thanksgiving with their family and friends and not dealing with a stampede of guests. I also read online that there was a petition to get Target to push the opening time back to midnight or later instead of 9pm. I’m not sure if that petition would help or if it would make any difference but it is a bold move by many unhappy team members. I personally do not shop on black Friday and I wait till the crowds die down. I just hope that everything goes well next Friday and that no one gets trampled to death while doing their job. Please post and thanks for reading guys.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I worked for Target over a year ago ,but I am still completely disgusted by the was I was treated. I hired into a store as a Senior Team Lead over Softlines and I didn’t really have any issues while I was there. Unfortunately, that store closed 3 months after I hired in, so I had to either take a buy out package or transfer. I ended up transferring to another store closer to home, and that was the BIGGEST mistake of my life. Before my transfer went through, the management at the new store wouldn’t even tell me what depertment I would be overseeing- it was some BIG secret… My first day working at the new store, I knew that I was going to be miserable… All of the ETL’s acted like snotty high school kids. If you did’t “fit in”, they would talk about you behind your back and make your life miserable- I witnessed them talking badly about another member of management on my first day there.
After I was there for about a week, they decided to put me in charge of Presentation. I had never done anything in presentation on a large sccale before, but they expected me to perform my job like a seasoned manager. My ETL would constantly get on me about my team’s performance, but I had no idea what it was they were supposed to be doing!
Likes(5)Dislikes(1) I’ve been working at a target in califronia the past couple months. And it’s amazing how one night I can really like it, and feel very confindent and the next night feel like i’m going to be fired the next day i show up for work. I work in both softlines and hardlines and like both just the same.
Besides pretty much doing the impossible every night, you know zoning not only your area but someone elses because of all the callouts that happen on any given night it’s daunting. Not just that but just the little rules around the store.
I think this will just be a general rant but geez does this place need to change a few things.
Likes(1)Dislikes(0) I don’t work for Target anymore, yet my loathing for the company still clings to me like a dingleberry that I just can’t seem to get rid of. I went into my old store the other day and saw my ex-Store Team Lead sitting on his fat ass in Food Avenue, heightening his cholesterol by cramming down a hot dog and soda. Leaning over his table like a dirty little whore was a Senior Team Lead who he’d banged the shit out of like she was Jenna Jameson. He was married at the time of their lengthy affair, yet this chick’s definitely hotter than his atrociously-hideous wife. So in order to move up the ladder, said Senior Team Lead thus rode said Store Team Lead like Seabiscuit. And him, being ugly and fat with an ogreish wife said, “Hell yeah, let’s hump!”
To preface this a bit with unnecessary information, “Dirty Whore” (as I will refer to her) has a constant camel toe.
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