I was never formally trained in ANYTHING. They just kind of ran through the basics and sent me on my way… I am grateful that there were some experienced transfers that knew how to use a PDA and were actually willing to take the time to show me how things worked.
I worked for target from2007.I started as deli helper ,my team lead was Betty although my application was for cashier but HR said we can not give you cashier but we have opening in deli department , I did not mind because I need job, I worked for deli and I heard a lot of complains about Betty .she was not doing any thing beside talking and sitting at Starbucks and chatting for long time with her friends.and it was only one person working with her and that person should do every thing while she was eating and drinking coffee.i when I have line I asked her to help at the bakery me . she always say ,this not my business.
I did not complain .she start taking advantage of me she was screaming at me and making fun of me in front her friends I tried to stay away .and then after 6 month they transferred her friend Briana from bakery to deli because she was too lazy at bakery .then Briana started to bring her gifts and buy her lunch so she can give her more hours and( Gloria)too started doing same thing to get more hours .and know we have three lazies and less hours for me and she was bad with me she did not let me take lunch on time and she was making fun of my accents and why I am so quiet and why my kids do not talk to her when they are with me shopping at target . I told her I am like this and my kids are also quiet . one day I told Betty I want to have one Saturday off ,she said why? I told her I want to take my kids to zoo , her answer was “do you want to visit your family?” in front of Gloria, a team member of deli.
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(0) I was a former employee at the Gastonia, N.C store location, I helped open the new store back in Sept 2011, this company just sucks in general. If your thinking about working for this company I advise you to pass on. My very first day consisted of almost a 12 hr shift,I was luckily chosen (sarcasm) for the Flow Team,and I was under the impression that we worked until we got done and being a new hire didn’t wanna jeopardize my job. this continued for another week. For weeks the management told us that we worked until we were done stocking the floor from the entire truck. Most days we worked from 4am until 2 or 3 pm. It wasn’t til about a month after the store opened that we started getting out at 11 am. Being on the Flow Team consists of being treated like low life scum, its almost slave labor for the small amount that they paid.they started me out at 7.75 an hour even with past retail experience. Everyone in the store hates the flow team,we got blamed for everything,even though we were the hardest workers there we still got treated like scum. all the while we were busting our ass, the sales floor associates would get to walk around, conversate and just bullshit while we were hard at work. We weren’t even really allowed to talk to each other. The team leaders were constantly on our ass about hurrying up, we only got one break through our entire shift which was either a lunch or a break,depending on how long they were wanting to keep us for the day while every other non flow team employee got two breaks and a lunch no matter what there hours were. also being a Pfresh store we had food trucks arrive the same day as the regular truck, so we would be stuck doing two trucks on Wednesdays and Fridays. By the time your shift is over you are physically and mentally exhausted, not even looking forward to having to come back to that shithole. Just trust me you do not want to work for Target, especially on the Flow Team,everybody will hate you just because you work on the flow team. Target doesn’t give two shits about their employees,I found this out after 6 month reviews employees were only getting .06 to .08 cent raises,what an insult. As hard as the flow team works they should be making double what the managers make because they don’t seem to know what the fuck they are doing. Fuck Target, I’m glad they fired me,I wanted out of there so bad I was literally telling them to fire me. This place will honestly bring you down into a depression if you let it. Don’t work for this shitty company and don’t give money to this corrupt company. I hope Target crumbles, they definitely deserve it.
Likes(8)Dislikes(0) I am the person left cripple by Target! I have posted before. For anyone with union interest I am willing to talk to anyone as to how a union rep could have saved my leg, and stopped my lifetime of pain caused by Target. I have won in court, won on all 3 of their appeals; yet still they have paid nothing. They admitted liability twice too. It will always amaze me on how much Target has spent fighting me at every turn. YET they have not given a dollar for a Tylenol to help me with my pain. A company without conscience. Evil to the core. I have given my whole being to one saving grace. I CAN cost them even more. I can pull from their precious bottom line. If you have any REAL OSHA complaints, contact me. I will help, or stand in for you to report them. I have costs them fines before. You can file with complete anonymity! For every specialist that they send me to; trying to disprove my doctors; I cost them. All the attorney fees and professional testimony; I cost them. I have gotten with EEOC, they have filed a case too. More money lost by Target. All I ask is Target make human, compassionate choices in regards to their employees. If they chose the bottom line as their most important asset; I chose their bottom line as my most obvious target. (NO pun intended.)
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Likes(1)Dislikes(0) I work at a store in San Luis Obispo, CA that just opened in August. I have been with the company and this store for almost a year… Even helped put it all together. They hired every single cashier, salesfloor, and cart attendant employee at a non-negotioable pay of 8.25 an hour. Which all by itself is absurd. But as a young, college bound girl in a city I wasnt familar with, I really didnt care at the time. A job is a job.
I was never formally trained in ANYTHING. They just kinda ran through the basics and sent me on my way… I am greatful that there were some experienced transfers that knew how to use a PDA and were actually willing to take the time to show me how things worked.
I was hired as a Hardlines associate. I actually really enjoyed this position. If I didnt think about how little I was being paid for the amount of work I had to do that is… With little or no recognition… After a few months they had me cross train in a couple different areas. Which was fine. I didnt mind the occasional shift somewhere else in the store. But it has now gotten out of hand!! For the last two months I havent had one hardlines shift. I have expressed my feelings many a time to the Team Leads and LOD’s and they plain and simple, dont give a shit. I pick up on things quickly and I do my job very well wherever they put me. They take advantage of that. But they had been making it sound like all employees were having to be put in other areas so they can better lay out the schedules and figure out the payroll stuff… When working as an operator you have the schedule for everyone in front of you all the time. I went through it. Turns out NOBODY else has a schedule like mine. I am in a different area every day of the week. Closing one night. Opeing to do instocks at 6:30 am the next. Its terrible. You cant get on any kind of sleep schedule with varying times like that… Just saying. This is my biggest, and most current issue with them.
Likes(1)Dislikes(1) I’m honestly about ready to quit this crap job.
I loved the former store I worked at, but after transferring to one on the other side of the country, I’m just not happy. Everyone treats me like I’m an actual new hire and I have no idea what my job is, even if I repeat myself over and over that I’ve been with this stupid store for two years. I’m trained in hardlines, guest service, and electronics. But you know where they put me day in and day out? Cashiering. They won’t even CONSIDER promoting me to GSTL/GSA. I’ve been there for 2 years but every GSA that I work for has been there less time than me, and they were hired these positions as new hires. It’s literally impossible to move up.
Not to mention, in February I found out I am pregnant. The week I found out, they called me and I (unfortunately) answered. They tried to get me in as a cart attendant shift. I’ve never worked as a cart attendant, and I told them I didn’t feel comfortable doing that shift. They harassed me and asked me over why I couldn’t come in and I flat out told them that I had just found out I was pregnant. I went from working 20-30 hours a week to 9. Even no hours a week after that. After I bitched about it to them, I finally got 30 hours again. The next week? 14 hours. I’ve been having a really complicated pregnancy so far, and I’m constantly sick and in and out of the hospital on days when I’m not working. Today I was supposed to work 4-11 and I’ve had the stomach flu and a high fever the past two days, but I went in and sucked it up because they’ve been letting people go for “poor attendance”. So I figured that maybe making an effort would be a good impression. Nope. My GSTL told me to talk to the LOD about going home and let’s just say the LOD was not pleased, at all. He told me that going home early was the same as “calling out” so I have a feeling I have a coaching when I go back in later this week.
They know I’m pregnant. They know things have been rough for me. Yet they show no remorse. They don’t care when I’m in the bathroom every 10 minutes puking or gagging or dry heaving or whatever.
I’d rather just not work or find a new job than be here. Two years is two years too many. I’m fed up.
Likes(0)Dislikes(0) I was in your Everett Mass store and unfortunately there’s an employee of yours who doesn’t understand customer service or courtesy. His name is Matt and he works in electronics, with long, shoulder length hair. I was looking for an ipod charger and asked an employee for help, they didn’t know so they asked someone on the radio to come over and continued on their way. Matt then came over and said the shelf was empty, but so were nearly all of the shelves in that aisle so he was going to scan the product somewhere else. I followed him to the desk where he started typing something into the register but then he started ringing in other customers; 3 specifically. I waited patiently for the last customer thinking he would help me but then he started talking to other employees and cleaning up. I then asked him if he wasn’t going to help me if he could call someone else to which he replied that they had 8 of the product I needed but he didn’t know where they were. And that I could go to Best Buy for cheaper. He then turned his back again and I asked another employee for help. As I was waiting for that employee to find me the alternative product Matt’s friend walked up and Matt began to tell him all about me, and what happened and they began laughing. I’m not surprised he didn’t notice I was still there.
Likes(1)Dislikes(1) I had a generic prescription with an auto-refill. In January, I picked it up, came home and opened the bottle – 90 pills (usually 30) and different shape. Called pharmacy and went back to store for refund. They took the pills but couldn’t cancel the sale (same day), issue a duplicate receipt or credit my Target card. Jerked me back and forth from Pharmacy (no phone to call out for instructions) to Customer Service (can’t do anything – it’s a Pharmacy issue) for over an hour. Gave me a $10 gift card and asked me to wait a month till it appeared on my statement, come in get a duplicate receipt and they would give me $10 for the gift card. In February – same runaround. Called corporate – talked to a supervisor, got a claim number and was told they would get back to me. This was an “excellent training opportunity”. No further contact. Went to store today to exchange $10 card for cash. Again – Customer Service called Pharmacy and the manager was there – could I go there and get problem resolved? Sure. I explained the entire process to “Barbie”, the Pharmacy manager, who didn’t see why there was a problem with the substitution. Corporate determines who the suppliers are so that they can “keep prices low for the consumer”. I expressed my displeasure at having my meds rotated to suit their profit margin and asked for my money back. She then took my gift card, scanned it and told me “I don’t see what your problem is – the card has $10 on it.” I explained that I wanted cash – that wasn’t a possibility. Nor, it seems, is the chance of my EVER going into another Target store. I left the gift card in Customer Service.
Likes(2)Dislikes(1) Greetings, I have been with Target with 5 years and it’s the worse place to work. I can’t believe I have there for 5 years, however luckily I’m still young so I can make a break from this awful place. When I first started it was fine and good until the reality kicked in that I was badly underpaid and treated by these scums of ETL’s and LOD’s. I swear to god if I had a nickle for every time they called me on my days off to come in and work I would’ve been a millionaire already =). Sometimes they would call me 2-3 times in a day; WTF? STOP FUCKING CALLING ME YOU ASSHOLES!!!!
Another thing is that if you weren’t a favorite of the ETL’s than you didn’t stand a chance of being promoted or even treated respectfully; what a joke. Mostly it’s the sales floor team that were the favorites of the ETL’s because they work so closely and they were included in the “huddles” with the ETL’s and LOD’s where as cashiers were treated like dirt crap. I started off at $7.50 than got bumped because of minimum wage to $8.00 plus the generous raises I’ve received through the years which added to the total of $0.68; what an insult. I have no benefits so pretty much this is a dead end job for me. This place has bought the evil in me and so I’m leaving this awful place for good. Our STL actually quit because she herself couldn’t take this crap even though she contributed to the crap; LoL.
Target should be unionized to the fullest because of all the abuse and crap that goes on. I’ve seen their anti-union video twice already and it’s a complete joke. To those of you youngsters who have started at Target or who are considering working for Target; DON’T . If you must work than only stay for a limited time maybe a year or so than quit. Believe me the chunk change they pay you is not worth it. I’ve finally put in my 2 weeks notice will be gone for good by next week; I have no job lined up but that’s ok because I hate this awful place. I’m planning on going back to school for my bachelors. FINALLY FUCK YOU TARGET.
Likes(3)Dislikes(0) Today I was lectured by one of my team leads on how I needed to be more “brand.” Til this point, for two years, I had been wearing a short sleeve red shirt with a long black one on the bottom…no one had ever told me I couldn’t and I had seen other people wearing that; but according to this team lead, it is not brand and I need to dress more professionally. The whole time I was thinking “Are you kidding me!? you don’t pay me enough to wear professional clothes!” I am a salesfloor employee who is always covered in dust and whatever crappy food avenue items the stupid customers spill; they pay me minimum wage and the maximum amount of hours I get a week are 22.5 and they expect me to dress up professionally!? I dress the way I do because that’s what I can afford on what they pay me. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR TARGET! I totally told the team lead that and her response was to shop in the clearance…hahahahha! Can you believe that shit? Only at Target!
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