Before reading this I just want to let people know that this is my story with Target and I had to sum up a year in this short section. So this is not the extent of what I went through but I believe it is the worst of it.

I got hired at the Salem, OR Target as a Fitting Room/Sales Floor Team Member after graduating high school and moving with my boyfriend to go to college. I had a normal college student’s schedule and could not work while I was in class (obviously), but was taking a light course load. I started off there working about 30 hours a week which was enough to pay for bills and rent. I think it’s safe to say that every month they screwed up my schedule in someway and continued to blame me for the mistakes they made. I had given them my set school schedule already.

My boyfriend had worked at the Target near his high school before we moved and transferred to the one in Salem. He worked in Food Ave and I worked in the Fitting Room most of the time. I was constantly told that I wasn’t doing enough and that I should have the fitting rooms, men’s, and the phones handled as well as people that had been working there for years. There was one TL in particular who was constantly “having talks with me” about my performance. Everyday that I had to work my stress levels would be through the roof and I would run around trying to do a million things at once just to please everyone and by the end of the day I was absolutely exhausted and berated for my “poor” performance. At one point I was driving almost an hour one way to go to another school and it was pouring down rain. I had work right after school and felt unsafe driving over the speed limit in those conditions. I had called and told them my situation and that I may have to be a few minutes late. When I got there soaking wet and shaking from trying to drive as fast as I could to get there on time, my HR pulled me aside and had another “talk” with me. She was skeptical and said things like “How far is it from there? 45 minutes?” I was so upset that after racing to get there on time and putting myself in danger that she didn’t even believe me. I am normally quite composed but that day she brought me to tears right there on the sales floor.

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Sorry, this is a long one, but it needed to be said:

I worked at a Super Target for just a little over three years.  Initially I loved it, I was hired as a cashier and within 6 weeks I was promoted to GSA.  A little less than a month after that, I had mentioned going back to college and my ETL excitedly said that they would start prepping me for a team lead position so I could get tuition reimbursement.  Everyone loved me and my ETL and GSTL’s were all very impressed with my performance.

Our store also has an Optical department, which is not owned by Target.  Our optical manager approached me one day asking if I would like to come and work for him instead.  He knew that I had previous experience working as an optician and offered me $13/hr plus commission, better hours and better benefits.  Most people would have said yes in a heart beat, but I was still pretty loyal to Target and we had just lost our other 2 GSA’s and were really struggling for coverage.  I decided the most professional route was to tell him I would need to first run it by my ETL.  I did, she was furious.  Apparently the thought of losing one of her top performers really set her off.  Instead of just telling me no, she put me on corrective action for attendance.  When I had her pull it up, the only things I had been flagged for were “Leave Early”.  We looked up the dates and they were all closing shifts.  Our store closes at 10pm, we are scheduled until 11pm but stay until the store is done.  If it is done early, we go home early.  The ETL that is closing that night is supposed to adjust the schedule so no one flags as leaving early, but apparently they hadn’t been doing that.  Despite proving my case, she said that it was already done and filed and there was nothing she could do.

Fast forward 6 months, I am off of my corrective action and have been nominated as top performer many, many times.  I inquire about Team Lead development and I am told that I am ineligible because I was dating another team member.  She told me that if I were no longer dating that team member then I would be eligible.  I was going to break up with the guy anyway, so I decided “sure why not”.  Well he threw a big hissy fit about it and would complain about it to anyone that came within 20 feet.  I pretty much ignored him, and everyone else, because I really needed that promotion.  I inquired about it again and was told that I was still ineligible and now on corrective action again for “dividing the store”.  Basically, my actions of breaking up with him(which she told me to do) made him lose his mind and cause drama.  I disassociated myself from it, but it still fell on my shoulders.  This was the only job I had, and I have two kids to support, so I just sucked it up.  Review time came around and I got an IE(lowest grade you can get) and a $.04 raise.  The reason, the disturbance I caused with my personal life.  The guy’s name was even quoted in my review.  His review?  Exceeds expectations, $.34 raise, not a word of the drama mentioned.

Instead of bringing me down, I use this as an opportunity to prove to everyone that I CAN be a Team Lead.  I busted my ass, did the job of my GSTL and my ETL and all of my other GSA’s.  I rose our conversion a full 1.5%, cross trained in every other area except production and Starbucks, rose our speed scores from a low yellow to a solid green and had absolutely perfect attendance.  I inquired yet again for the Team Lead development and instead of being developed, got tossed into an interview without any preparation the very next day.  Surprisingly the store I interviewed at said I did very well, however they were concerned with some past “drama” issues I had at my current store.  So essentially, someone from my store called them and filled them in on stuff that happened over a year ago.

I am going to sum up the next year or so in one paragraph to get to the end of this experience.  I was put on corrective action 2 more times for attendance, mostly due to “Leave Early” that the ETL’s didn’t correct in the system for closing nights and there was 4 days I missed throughout the entire year because either I was in the hospital or my children were.  Doctors notes were provided, but I was told that it doesn’t change anything, I am still accountable for my shifts.

Now let’s look into the past 6 months.  Back in May/June I was hospitalized for almost 2 weeks.  Turns out I have Multiple Sclerosis.  I was working the day I went in to the hospital.

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This is probably the stupidest thing to ever happen at my store.

Okay, here we go.

This was probably 5 years ago. I was closing electronics and it was quite busy. I was ringing up the guests and my coworker was pulling out video games. Then this weird looking guy comes up and asks me to pull out a prepaid phone. Seeing that my coworker was busy with another guest I happily obliged.

After I ring him up for the damn thing he asks if I could activate the phone for him. I tell him “if it was another time, I would. But there are too many people to help right now. You are going to have to go home and call Virgin to activate it.”

He respond by saying “are you telling me what to do?” in the most menacing manner.

He looked pissed. I slowly hand him his receipt and try to ignore his glare. After about 10 seconds of awkwardness, he leaves.

20 minutes later he comes back and asks me again “can you activate my phone?” and again I tell him “I can’t, I have too many guests?”

That guy then started to wander around the department for several minutes. At one point he opens the box the cellphone was in and charges it by the TV wall. I thought nothing of it and believed he would leave at some point. However, as soon as several people pass by him. He started threatening them. That guy looked a little off, like he was coked up or something. I call TPS over the walkie to notify them of the situation. The guy looks me with my walkie near my mouth and assumes i am calling the cops.

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It’s the start of the last week of March, and it’s another closing shift for me.  It starts out as another uneventful Sunday, wishing I was anywhere but THAT fucking place.  I get through the first three and a half hours all right, but then…I get called to do a carryout.   It’s back in the electronics, because someone’s getting a giant ass HDTV that costs more than any of us ever got in a regular paycheck.  I make my way to the back, and just have it on my mind to get this shit done quickly so I can get to my break.  Just had to get through a couple more hours.

So I get there and the security man’s pointing to this mid-aged woman.  Simple enough.  Then she asks me if I need to see the receipt, to which I point out isn’t necessary, because I’m not security.  (Which is also an indication that I don’t give a shit, but I didn’t mention that.)  The woman then blew up on me: “Well, that ain’t what I ASKED!!”  From that point on, I just wanted to tune her out, but she didn’t stop talking her shit.  Her next words were, “Talking like us black folks make no sense…“, and then she started walking down towards the clothing aisle.  I’m just looking at the security guy, and he heard all of this shit, and I just say to him, “Fucking bitch”.   I then start to push the flat toward the front door, but I walk down the aisle passing the toys and holiday cards.

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Let me tell you my horror story of working for the bullseye. I applied for a job in September 2010 and I applied for a full time position with the company working overnights. I got the call and I met the HR person in the store here in Central Jersey and she said I was going to be hired on a seasonal basis. I NEVER applied for seasonal and I should of never even took the job but I needed to make money since I didn’t have a job at the time. That was bullshit number one.

Later that year they offered us to work in Pfresh doing the truck and getting a GUARANTEED 8 hours. I had the 8 hours for a few months and than they cut it to a 5 hour shift around February when they said we would work a GUARANTEED 8 hours a day. Second case of Bullshit.

I went back to overnights around April of 2011 and I liked my executives because both were mad cool and they didn’t bother you. The team leads are a different story because one would ALWAYS say something to me no matter what when I always did my job right and the executives didn’t even say anything to me at all. Bullshit number 3.

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So,

Ive been working for target Logistics as a Flow member for over a year now, and i need to get some anger and frustration out and maybe connect with some people who feel the same way i do. I just joined this site today so forgive me if this has been posted a thousand times, i just need to get it out.

ill start off with i have one head of logistics whom is very respectable and understanding but doesn’t really run our team, and then we have our supervisor whom of which is always in a distasteful mood who constantly treats us like we are children and will enforce and give us write ups for unsafe behavior and then turn around and do those things herself, and then we have a non supervisor who our leads use

I was a Hire on as of last August so i wasnt seasonal, i normally 3am to 7am but mandatory stay till 8, and we had a big team and sure it was hard work but ive done truck unload/stocking before hand so i knew what i was in for and the number system on the boxes was a great help. The people i worked with were fairly friendly for being a graveyard crew and generally not a hinder to work with. Then a few months went by, 4th quarter ended, and one by one all of the “veterans” as my lod describes up left one by one, leaving us understaffed and having to train “X” amount of people ever so weeks only to have them quit after a few days, which is to be expected. Eventually we stopped hiring and just left us as a small crew in a high class store. off season wasnt so bad with the 1600 to 2300+ trucks, itd be iffy if we would finish on time or not so it we would have time lines based on 25 to 30 seconds a box, with one or 2 people an isle, which was hard work but doable. Then more people left, and now the leaders have decided to just up and change everything that worked for us in the past and move around everything. I personally when from being a thrower in the truck to working on the backstock side of the line solo, on 2800+ trucks with 300+ of blackline, and i have to do all of of paper and beverage Push and backstock by myself, and pull pallets out of the truck when needed and still 4th quarter has hit and we are getting 25 to 3000 piece trucks 5 days a week and about 3 to 5 people on the push side and only me on the backstock side and are expected to push the entire store minus softlines, hardlines and electronics in a 4 hours period. i find it a bit ridiculous.

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In March of 2011, I started working for Target in a small town in Northeast Texas. I ended up having to move about three hours west around September, and put in for a transfer. My transfer was approved and I had communicated with the HR at the new store I was going to. Once I moved, I went in to the store to talk to the HR Lead face to face and she informed me that someone in HR at my old store had marked me as “not eligible for re-hire”. I told her I would contact that store and the corporate office and find out about this issue. After calling around for ***FOUR MONTHS***, I had just been called by another company for an interview, and I get a call from this HR Lead asking me when I can start. Instead of following my instincts and going to the interview, I told her I could be there the next day so I did.

When my annual review came around, my Hardlines Team Lead, whom hated me because I was a threat to her, gave me my review as an “IE”. In case you didn’t know, that is the worst review you can get without being terminated. Everything she gave me IE on, she turned around and said the complete opposite verbally. For example, “Always on time, dependable, and always has appropriate uniform on: IE” But then she says, “We enjoy having you on our team because you always look professional with your uniform and name badge, and you always show up when scheduled, and come in when not.” This doesn’t make sense to me. 14 CENT raise :/

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