Well I no longer work for target after several years and I am glad to have left. Like many of you I have experienced incompetence from the ETL staff and the clueless mentality of the management staff in general.

My first several years working for Target was pretty good I started off as a regular team member and i ended up working up to a TL which was in hindsight a mistake. They place unrealistic expectations upon the TL’s and they are the true workhorses of the store. There were countless times when only TL’s were scheduled on the floor to complete tasks, projects, and provide guest service due to “hours being tight” . ETL’s would walk the floor knowing that the sales floor was light but still give out more tasks to complete. They would constantly say to “delegate to your team” but there was no team scheduled to delegate to. Also don’t forget the pointless business walks, contribution forms, coachings, corrective actions, and leadership statuses they request from you as well.

They will create a bunch of crazy schedules with new hires with ZERO training

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Well, after 4 months with target i called it quits tonight! Yay. I was doing okay and wasn’t expecting to quit tonight. I was a cart attendant and had to work with the store ETL who was closing LOD tonight. We close at 10pm it was around 9:45  and I finishing up in the lot (moving carts) and i get a call over my walkie, it was the LOD (who I never really liked because he/she gets paid a six figure salary to sit on his/her ass and talk all day while the rest of the store is  working their ass off). I come in the store and the LOD calls again. Usually I don’t work on the register pass 9:30 as this allow me some time to finish my daily duties. ( this particular ETL is never at the store he/she only comes in when he/she is not on vacation.)( 6 vacations in a 4 month period?! Really!!!) I get called again by this LOD as i am walking to the guest service counter (at which point I say, “I really have work to do”, out loud. Nevertheless I get on a register for about 10mins. I leave when my line is empty to finish getting carts. I had a lot of carts to move and I was 10 o’clock so it took me about 16 or so minutes. The LOD had already locked  the doors and i called to be let in (a cashier  let me in, one of the hard working employees) I start working on cleaning up the front end when the GSTL calls me in his office to talk, we sit down and here comes the LOD into the office. He/She starts going off about me being disrespectful and not listening to Him/Her (he actually said I am suppossed to do what ever he says, like I’m some kind of loyal dog.) At this point I am heated but I keep my composure and listen to what He/She has to say. He/She then brings up the comment i said out loud(I really have work to do) earlier ( I’m like, how did he know i said that and he/she was like 100 ft away). At this point i just didn’t care and was really ready to go. We leave the room and I continue my work, until I realized I really hated this job and the low hours/wages(Cart Attendants are the stores slaves anyway). I walked up to the LOD and gave Him/Her my namebadge and my walkie and left. Thank GOD Any one considering working at target DON’T unless you like being taken advantage of by their No payroll having asses!! I mean I worked for a local grocery store that gave WAY more hours than Target. (That “we don’t have the payroll to cover more hours” excuse, is just a load of horse SHIT!) OK thats out of my system to those that still work at target, STAY STRONG!! I know your situation is less than optimal but know their will be something better that comes along eventually. I close by saying this corporation REALLY NEEDS TO UNIONIZE !!!!! That way those money grubbing corporate bastards can’t treat their low level employees like shit!

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So I work at a target in the San Gabriel Valley in California. I’ve been an employee for two years about to be three. I work two jobs, pay for college out of my own pocket, and am a full time student. I can’t stand the way our Target store has picked out favorites already. I bust my ass five times more than other employees. I only received a ten cent raise this year while other team members who just walk around talking, take thirty minute breaks, hang out at the fitting room, call out repeatedly and always text receive a forty cent raise. I’m always the one being called to backup the cash registers, take out pull from the backroom, work three departments while others only work one, and am expected to do other team members work load because they have fallen behind. When I ask for help I’m always told ill be sent help. I guess they lost their way to where I am. Also every team lead we have are cousins and our manager is two of their god mothers. Apparently I offended one of the team leads with a joke about our new gstl will probably be their uncle and my hours have drastically dropped. Used to work 30 hours a week now 12 hours a week. I hate target and literally everything about it. I try calling the anonymous number to complain but they never do anything.

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SO I was hired in the beginning of July and they told me changing my avaiability once school approached wouldn’t be an issue and hired me on the spot. They had me closing Friday-Sundays and working about 2-3 times during the week. I’m just gunna say working there has been terrible.  The GSTL’s and LOD’s complain when people bring in 10000 coupons and (even tho the computer checks them, they complain and insist we go thru their bags to make sure if they are saving over 100 dollars using coupons) IF UR COMPUTER IS ACCEPTING THEM AND U THINK THEY SHOULDNT  REWRITE YOUR COMPUTER PROGRAMS!  THEN  they always complain when you ask to have your break or lunch saying “WE tell you when to go to break/lunch” THEN when they worked me over 6 hours after I WARNED them saying my 6 hours was approaching  they yelled at me the next day when they realized i worked 20 minutes over 6 hours and said how it was my fault (EVEN THO I SPOKE OUT!) and made me sign some stupid paper saying it was my fault that i “lost track of time” BS. OH! and now that school is starting monday  I sent in my avaiabilty change request  last week..THEY DENIED IT! so now im scheduled to work…like 30 minutes after class..it takes me at least 45 minutes to drive HOME from school…It is ridiculous   they don’t care if you go to school or anything they just care about working you to the max no matter what. They even skip your breaks sometimes! It’s downright unfair and anyone thinking of working there shouldn’t. trust me no one on here is making any of this up..it’s really how they are. Puttin’ in my 2 weeks next friday.

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Alright, So I get that they need to sell cards. I get that they are trying to run a business, I understand that they need to continue to afford their meaningless expensive lifestyles and make sure little Timmy gets into the private school that all of the other 1% children are going to. It’s cool. But I am so sick to death of hearing about selling red cards. I need this job. I hate to admit it but for where I am, a college student going to classes all week, it’s important to have something that pays more than minimum wage. So I go to work every weekend, I clean all the registers and stock them out of personal choice and to avoid PURE hatred to consume me before 10am because I am so done with using my energy to smile at the assholes that come into the store. After cleaning, I stand at my register, greeting every guest with a smile, mostly to be met with a sneer or in most cases nothing at all because I am trash to most people who come into the store, I am lucky to work in a store that is in the blue blood district of my lovely state. Yay! 1% fuckers buying golf balls and $70 shoes for their 3 year old, not to mention buying their food with food stamps.

Main point, I need this job, I could go on forever, and yes I already have, but I can’t get fired, FUCK the red card. IN THE ASS. Conversion rates are based on shit. The new manager is threatening everyone if they don’t sell more red cards and are enthusiastic and enjoy ripping customers off we will be fired. FUCK THEM, I wasn’t hired in a fucking sales position and I will see justice if I am fired over these fucking red cards. fuck this job. I am so glad I am able to go to college to avoid working for these asses for the rest of my life.

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