I started working at one of the Madison Wi, stores in the fall of 2008. When I started I was very happy. the ETl’s and TL’s were amazing and very nice and truly cared for the team or atlest they did a very good job faking it. As the years pass we lost all but one ETL and all of the Tl’s and the store just seamed to go to shit!!!!!!! I started off as a TM. then a Electronics SP then when they did away with that title I became a Electronics TM. I have always practicaly been running the electronics and toy Dpt. doing basicaly TL work, just not coachings or bussness walks. I have shown quality work time and time again. I have even been a Great Team Hero twice. and have worked with AP with Apps and recoverys and have been sent letters from corp saying what a great job I do for the company. But when go for TL or GSA, I am told time and time again we dont thing you or ready or other bullshit like that, then we hire from outside some one totally “green” like my last TL who I basicaly had to Train myself, who then left after 4 months because she was going back to school and they did not want to work with her hours that she would be going.  In this time I have comunicated my issues i have had with fellow workers not doing there job as well as a TL of Plano who on countless ocasions has haft assed his work/pawned his work onto non Plano TM’s/ lied to ETL’s to save his ass, and even told a girl that she would not be getting hours cuz she is prego. I comunicate over and over on the things that make my ability to do my job harder and im blown off time and time again. we in just the past 2 months have had 4 TM’s and 6 TL’s quit do to the Bullshit. I would not even have came here if it was not for what happend today.  A GSA postion had just opend up and the ETL of that Dpt told me I should go for it and she even said ” I think you would do great” so I went ahead. Today I was pulled into My ETL’s (hardlines) office and basicaly (not in her words but what i got from what she said) told me that im not ready for that type of role unless i shut my mouth and let them keep sweeping the bullshit under the rug. She even went as far as to say that I cause drama and that im to emotional. Um No im a hard worker and im calling your bullshit and you dont like it. I feel I am being discriminated for speeking my mind and challanging them on things that are clearly not being taken care of such as, acountablility, fareness, ext ext.  plz tell me im not alone

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I posted a few months back with my Target management team treating me unfairly with my pregnancy. Unfortunately I haven’t quit yet, just because of that small extra income that comes in handy and it’s hard for someone who’s far along in their pregnancy to get a job.

Anyway. So the unfairness has continued. I understand the whole “Getting pregnant was a choice so you have to be treated just like everyone else”. The thing is, the last Target I worked at, and the Target that a friend of mine works at treats their pregnant team members with a bit more respect. My hours have still been cut drastically. I was told I was not allowed to sit at all at my checklane. No stool/chair/whatever. I’m almost 30 weeks pregnant. The funny thing? Some girl stubbed her toe the other day at work and she got to sit at a chair the remainder of her shift. Because that totally makes sense.

I’ve also been trying to transfer stores. That maybe this store just isn’t the one for me. I live in Virginia and the store I work at is on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay, maybe about a 15 mile drive from my house. There is only one way to get from where I live to where this store is, and it’s a bridge-tunnel. There is a store closer to me, in fact right down the road. The 15 mile drive to the store I work at now wouldn’t be that much of an issue if I wasn’t stuck in bumper to bumper stand still traffic on a bridge in the middle of the ocean for 1-2 hours during my commute to work. I’ve expressed my concerns with my third trimester now in effect, that I’d rather not be stuck in traffic going to and from work with the possibility of going into labor or something (mind you, I have to go to a Naval Hospital which is another traffic filled 30 mile drive from the store I work at).  They tell me time and time again that they’ll contact the other store but nothing happens. I get on their case. I bring it up every time I’m in. And they tell me that they’re waiting on a response from the other store. I went to the other store not long ago and they said they haven’t heard anything yet.

Do I quit and possibly not be able to find another job until after my son arrives? Or do I stay and be miserable and possibly put myself into some sort of stress which is obviously not healthy for me or my child?

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I found this site while seeking whether it was possible to speak to Targets higher ups about what happened to me the day before yesterday when I got fired, I feel quite unfairly. I realize after a bit of research that there’s probably not a damn thing I can do about it … So I will tell my story here.

I moved here to Camarillo Ca. approximately 3 months ago to move in with my girlfriend … We knew it was going to be tough and would all rely on how quickly I was able to get a job. I was here for 2 days before getting down to it and spent weeks filling out online applications and hitting the pavement to all the local places here that I could realisticly seek employment with as I do not drive. after sending out approximately 100 Resume/applications and going through alot of painstaking processes … I finally got a call from Target.

I had applied online for the only existing position they had open which was “Flow”. I got called in for an interview upon which I was asked if I would be available for any other positions as they thought they might have the flow position filled … I said yes of course, that I didn’t need a particular position, I simply needed a job. Over the course of the next 2 days I was givien two more interviews, a 4 hour orientation and was given a position as “Signing TM” which I thought was a nice fit concidering I’ve worked at several sign shops in the past actually MAKING signs and now I would be installing signage. I was excited about it anyway. After going through the Drug Test and Background check I was told that I would be Training at another store in “Simi Valley” which is 45 minutes away … this was an extreme hardship for me and mine as like I said I don’t drive. My girlfriend ended up having to get up at 4am to drive me 45 minutes to simi valley to be to work by 6am … then back home … then back to simi to pick me up at 2pm when my shift ended for 5 days in a row … I had to borrow $100 from a friend (My only existing favor) just for the gas to do this and even that didn’t cover it, all because (as it turns out) my boss was too lazy to train me herself.

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I have worked for Target for 8 years now. Overall, I like it there. Our store has a great morale and pretty nice guets. I like the people I work with and get along with the team leads and etl’s 90% of the time. Lately though, the etl’s have started this double talk and circular logic concerning the hours it takes to set a planogram. I set all the revisions in the store and do all the signing. I am also expected to push flow 6 hours a week, on Mon-Wed-Fri.

Usually, I can get it all done. Say I have 25 hours of revisions, 6 hours of flow, and then signing. Alright, I am rather efficient, I can get it all done. But sometimes, I need some support. Oh no. If there are 55 hours of revisions, too bad. They just want to ignore the problem and hope it sort itself out.

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