I’ve been working with Target for almost 2 years now and have been working in retail for 12 years. My last two jobs i was promoted to an assistant manager within 6 months. ( Quiznos Sub where i had customers personally ask for me because of the way i made subs and a local Animal Rescue were i helped train, rehab, adopt and bottle fed cats and dogs)  I have worked my butt off for the first year in a half because i always put effort into my jobs and this was just another job.  There was days that were stressful and i always called my TL to have an ear full to make me feel better, and she was great about it, but she is the only one that listens. No other TL, ETL, LOD, HR or the STL give a damn. They told me that I come off as unapproachable, untrustworthy, I lack leadership skills, and I don’t know what the word “responsibility” means.  I was recently pulled into the office for writing a great team card that wasn’t “brand worthy” because the word Anti- was used. I finally had enough and practically called my STL a communist. You can’t say anything bad about Target while you’re working or you’ll get pulled aside from multiple “Higher ups” to have a talking to. On top of all this, I’ve been having troubles with my back. Before i started this job i had a standard pillow and mattress. Now i have a medical bed, pillow, body pillow and i have to wear a brace when i do any form of physical activity.  Yet, Target still believes that i can pick up a 4 man pool even after multiple calls for help. I’ve had to call off because of falling asleep on the couch for a couple of hours or if i ever sleep over at a friends/ parents place. I’ve been seeing a chiropractor now and he believes my back is getting worse. I can’t quit because i plan on having a kid and i want to use the maternity leave before quitting and they deny me to move to a different position because of the mentioned problems. Don’t get me started on hours either. Some days i open, some days i close, I fluctuate between 10 and 20 hours when I want 30-40. And when i change my availability to accommodate the 10-20 hours they give me.. they deny that too. I’m too a point that i just don’t care. I dont care if im late, do any work, help a guest.. nothing. I plan on calling Corp soon and get my ass chewed out for calling them… but i record all of my “coaching” and they know it 🙂

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I retired some years ago from my career but became board.  I wanted to get a job for a couple of days per week and a few hours per shift, just to give me a reason to get out of bed before noon.  I decided on Target because I have shopped there since I was in my twenties and before they separated from the now defunct Dayton-Hudson Company.  I currently work in the backroom of a non super Target and to this date I can’t figure out how this corporation makes money.  I could complain about the non functioning equipment, inaccurate (make work) computer pulls and unbelievable short staffing, but I will confine my comments to two areas.  First of all the pay scale is ridiculous given the high productivity expectations and intrusive demands on my weekly time.  I told my TL that I would never consider working a full time schedule given the poor starting wage and raise schedule.  I also proffered that no one with a genuine work ethic would.  Today I (with less than one year on)  started training a new backroom team member.  I am not an “official” training person so no differential pay for me.  The kicker is that I am making 8 cents more per hour than the person I am training in.  Huh?  My store works me 7 1/2 shifts and that means that I am actually being productive for 6 1/2 hours.  If they brought me in for a 7 hours shift, Shazaam….6 1/2 hours of productivity.  How does that make sense?  Why am I still around? Well, I still like Target.  I like my TL, STL, LOD’s and etc.  The discount ain’t bad and it makes my wife very happy.  Also, if I help get new help trained in.  Maybe (I hope) they will stick around and I can get back to a smaller schedule.  Will it happen?  Don’t know and I can always leave.

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I’m sure it’s not just my Target that’s clique-y. I’m new but honestly I don’t like it. I’m in Food ave so I work with only 4-5 others and that’s it. I don’t interact with other people. It’s whatever. I don’t know if any of the cashiers even like me ha. I smile but they don’t smile back. Whatever. I just do my job and want to go. Food ave is too hard and too time consuming for me to worry about basic bitches that are cashiers. I honestly think food ave is like an island in Target, isolated from everything. Oh well.

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It’s insanely busy in the one I work at. I hate it because I have to close alone and there are always so many customers. This one customer in particular was SO RUDE.She seriously needs to learn respect. Why are the old customers the mean ones? She asked me to pop fresh popcorn even though I told her I’djust done in 10 minutes prior. This bitch seriously. Then today I told her that we were out of cups because we were. I didn’t know that we were able to give smoothie cups in place of water cups since we were out of water cups as a whole. She got mad at me when I said there weren’t any cups. I couldn’t give her a free soda cup. I ended up gviving her a smoothie cup and luckily that was the right thing. Still, she’s a bitch and apparently my co-workers know her too well. Well she probably has a shitty life so too bad for that bitch. Seriously though, you NEED at least TWO people closing food ave, not ONE. There are tons of dishes and one person cannot do that AND handle customers. I wish we closed earlier too. 9 pm is too late, nobody comes in that late. Sometimes I wish could close down for a half hour during the day and just get caught up.

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