Went into work this morning to continue as a Target Back Room Monkey. During the night some slack jawed ass hat had installed some new wireless tech to enable “wireless” telephone communication in the store. Yeah, worked just great except none of the Fucking PDA’s would work. So here I stand with finger up ass, waiting to do the minimum wage job that i was hired to do. Being a network geek, I reason that the problem began with the new installation so the logical decision would be to turn the new tech off to see if it was the problem. NO WAY says the local management team. We have to speak to the district asshole. Well, the asshole is three states away doing God knows what and not answering her texts. Tech Support?, Well, they are in Fucking India and see “no problem” at our local store. (3000 Fucking miles away) A Fifteen year veteran of the store calms me by saying the people at corporate don’t give a damn and she has given up trying to make them care. FUCK TARGET….I am short time and will be gone by September if I just don’t walk out. THE CORPORATION IS RUN BY MORONS.

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I;m 21 years old and I’ve worked at a local target in Ohio for about a year and a half now. I’m usually in softlines, but I know hardlines just as well. It started out great, but FORGET THAT!! I don’t even know where to begin!! Not only do I have stories, my boyfriend who has worked there for almost 6 years  has told me stories of food ave and starbucks workers being forced to work sick, even said one girl was forced to come in to work when she had strep throat!!!! This store also does not take doctors notes!! WTFFFF who doesn’t take doctors notes?!?!?! IF YOU’RE SO F*CKING SICK YOU GET A DOCTORS NOTE YOU CANT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!STarbucks and food ave is also CONSTANTLY getting cheated on their breaks. My boyfriend will work 1pm-930pm in food ave, go on his first break at around 4 and then his lunch about 5:30-6ish, and NEVER get his last 15!!!!!!!! But of course, the GSTLs get all their breaks!!! Also, our HR is a total f*cking bitch!!! she acts all nice to your face, but will turn on you in the blink of an eye!! shes so untrustworth and crazy that EVERYONE gave her bad reviews in the stupid surveys they made us take. Our actual store manager and 1 or two lods are the only nice ones there. One of the managers is such an ass, he “documented that we talked” when I forgot to turn my walkie back on after using the bathroom!!!

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i don’t even know where to begin…

i worked as a cashier at super target in kansas city for almost 2 years. everything was great there…rude customers everyday, but other than that i loved my store. THEN i transferred to a target in georgia. and let me tell ya, it’s fucking hell. i came into the store, on my first day of work, and no one was expecting me. when i finally met up with an LOD, they didn’t tell me anything about the store’s routine, rules, nothin. they just threw me on a checklane, and i didn’t even get to meet my gstl’s or anything.

this store is so fucking unorganized. our breaks are never on time. today, i worked 8am-3pm. well, as most of you know, you MUST take a lunch, before you hit the 6 hour mark. well, they forgot about my lunch. i didn’t get lunch until 1:45. i had to remind them, cuz i didn’t wanna get in trouble, for working 6 hours, and not clocking out.

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Why the hell do the LODs walk around deliberately messing up my zone? I’m on the sales floor working hard to clean up after the guests and zone the tables and racks properly by size and color. Yet the LODs walk around and mix up the sizes and colors on purpose. They also throw random items around the departments. At first I thought it was the guest but at one point there were no guests in my area at all yet when I turned away and came back everything was flipped around.

What is the purpose of this practice? Don’t they want the store to be neat and properly zoned? Why sabotage your employees? Don’t they wanted workers who actually work and care about the quality of their work? Would they rather me half-ass my work and leave the place looking a Fing mess? WTF!!! You pay us peanuts and we try to do a good job in spite of it; yet you walk around making things harder. It’s a mean and evil practice! Fing idiots!

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So, I worked for another “big box” retail operation for 4 years, and I can tell that Target and the other big box are the two most inhumane, despicable organizations on earth. My fiancé was hired through one of Target’s shell employment agencies 9 months ago to come in and manage a wreck of a department that was wasting tons of money on stupid mistakes and gross errors. With her stellar personality and and incredible tool kit, she succeeded in bringing about some order and good process to a clusterf*ck situation, and started getting huge projects done beautifully, with little or no error. The proof in the pudding were the several  Target vendors who courteously thanked her for her dedication to normalcy and process. After nine months of blood, sweat & near tears, she was stricken with a disease she had carried since childhood, requiring life-saving surgery, almost a month in the hospital and several months of restricted activity to ensure an effective healing process. Today, she was ignobly notified by the shell employment agency that her personal belongings had been boxed up and were to be delivered to the shell employment agency where  she would need to pick them up.

The principal list of complaints:

1. Target has blatantly refused to accept any responsibility for her short or long term disability, reminding her that the contract she was forced to sign with the shell employment agency denied her of any and all benefits.

2. Target is just another soulless, piece of shit corporation, that believes that it can arrogantly and indiscriminately f*ck contractors over with no fear of reprisal or damaging pr. I surly hate to disappoint. Hoping the State’s Atty General is not being paid off by Target, you know, huge PAC donations to keep the lid off of the kettle.

Even contractors are people, you know.

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So, I worked for another “big box” retail operation for 4 years, and I can tell that Target and the other big box are the two most inhumane, despicable organizations on earth. My fiancé was hired through one of Target’s shell employment agencies 9 months ago to come in and manage a wreck of a department that was wasting tons of money on stupid mistakes and gross errors. With her stellar personality and and incredible tool kit, she succeeded in bringing about some order and good process to a clusterf*ck situation, and started getting huge projects done beautifully, with little or no error. The proof in the pudding were the several  Target vendors who courteously thanked her for her dedication to normalcy and process. After nine months of blood, sweat & near tears, she was stricken with a disease she had carried since childhood, requiring life-saving surgery, almost a month in the hospital and several months of restricted activity to ensure an effective healing process. Today, she was ignobly notified by the shell employment agency that her personal belongings had been boxed up and were to be delivered to the shell employment agency where  she would need to pick them up.

The principal list of complaints:

1. Target has blatantly refused to accept any responsibility for her short or long term disability, reminding her that the contract she was forced to sign with the shell employment agency denied her of any and all benefits.

2. Target is just another soulless, piece of shit corporation, that believes that it can arrogantly and indiscriminately f*ck contractors over with no fear of reprisal or damaging pr. I surly hate to disappoint. Hoping the State’s Atty General is not being paid off by Target, you know, huge PAC donations to keep the lid off of the kettle.

Even contractors are people, you know.

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I’ve been working here only 8 months in the Food Service area. I was in college, and I had to remind them of my strict availability several times. I was constantly being scheduled and called during class times, and yes, my classes are more important than Target.  It was three entire months before I had worked with the Food Service manager, I only took computer training and other Team Members, who were the same status as me, only working a month longer, “trained” me.  Repeatedly, I was told, “You are doing that wrong.” Well, when I haven’t been trained, do not throw me into the job & complain about it! Now, I am one of the best employees there. Everyone in the store says I am their favorite Food Service Team Member! They say I am bubbly and nice, no matter what. Well, this is customer service and employees are supposed to be nice, duh.  Most of the people I work with is lazy and rude! My “manager” is a year older than me, never went to college,and just wants everyone to be her friend. If she doesn’t like you, she will write you up, but mostly because she likes to hang out in the office and doesn’t like being in the Food area. She doesn’t contribute anything.

Moreover, our dishwasher is broken. Every dish needs to be washed by hand. Enough said.

Pharmacy people get on my nerves. They(who are our co-workers) treat us worse than any guest! Show some respect. I am going to school, this is NOT my lifetime job!

I have several guests that come in and ask about my life & how I’m doing in school. These people brighten up my days. I love my regulars!

Lastly, if we don’t make “sales,” then our hours our cut, leaving us by ourselves a lot. And with all the pizza topping, panning, prepping, (washing dishes when dishwasher is broken), there leaves no time to try to sell more stuff, so we sell less than the last time. Organization and common sense, Target! Seriously.

Putting in two weeks notice tomorrow. I don’t deserve being treated like scum, plus I got hired somewhere else.. not in retail or making food! 🙂

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