I started at a brand new Target, along with all the other employees, in Illinois a few years back. I waited in line with approx 5000 people to get the job. At first I really liked it, I had a stressful full time day job, this night job was a big change of pace. As a new store, everyone except for managers was trained together, before the store opened, we all were busy setting up the shelves and stocking them. After is was opened, I realized that everything was about zoning, they did not care that I had electronic experience and was able to up sell customers and answer questions. they kept transferring me around all the departments, I was actually too good at zoning, I found that I was given more than one department every night, while other departments all had one associate. Biggest problem was that at night, we all had to help everyone else before we got to go home. For those of us who actually worked all night, this was a bad thing. our reward for being fast and efficient was that we had to all go help the idiots who did nothing all night but joke around with their friends. It got to the point that we slowed down so that the idiots had to do a lot of their department work themselves. And then their was the red card and cashier issues. I didn’t try too much to push credit cards, but had to at times. i used to hate when they were slow on cashiers and wanted everyone to run up front and cashier at a drop of a hat. Most of us resented this, feeling that they should hire more dedicated cashiers. it wasn’t that we were making a lot of money, and it would have gone a great way towards customer service. Finally had to quit, i kept getting more and more hours and my part time job was almost a full time one, which I didn’t want.

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About two months ago I was contacted by the local Target about my job application and asked to come in for an interview the following day. The interview went very well. They told me that they needed a full time Price Team member to work from 6a-2p or 8a-4p around 5 days a week. I wasn’t too pleased with the hours, but this being my first job, I dealt with it. So, two weeks went by, and I called Target to follow up and they told me they’d have the HR get in contact with me. I called a week later, and they connected me to the HR manager and she said she’d call me the next day and schedule orientation. A week later, I called back. No answer. Nobody could help me. Then, a week later she calls about my job and tells me to come in the next day for orientation. It took OVER A MONTH for them to contact me. Well, I went to orientation. And I started the following week. (A month and a half after interview).

I showed up 10 minutes early for a good “first impression” and rang the door bell and was immediately REAMED and told that I can’t show up that early!

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I stand behind all of you out there fed up by the incapable team leads and management more inept then a gold fish to lead staff members. UNIONIZE!!! I am aware how frightening it is to even say the word while at work. The anti-union propaganda; it’s there to keep you from a safe, and happy work environment. I pray the fear tactics will someday stop. Keep notes on your safety issues! Call OSHA and report them. I have done it. They were fined! (Not story that they told….I have the report to prove otherwise!) Give them some frustration….Lord knows they love giving it to us! Spend some time and anonymously report their pain in ass “supervisors.” I pray for all those employees out there that they are not left cripple like I was, because of Target’s management staff my life is forever changed….I post here to encourage you all. The ONLY hope is union, union, union…….UNION!!

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That’s right, Target…poop on you. Them’s fightin’ words. I quit Target after 4 1/2 years. I mainly worked in Apparel, since I’m female and Target is sexist. 🙂 I transferred from a high-volume, do-everything-right store…to a low-volume, “What the fuck are we doing?” store. Anyways, long story short, I brought the store from consistent Red visits in Apparel to consistent Green visits. I re-trained existing employees on Brand, culture, POG and Sales Planner building, zoning, etc…. My team lead was a dude….who had NO idea what the hell he was doing. He’d done price accuracy or POG crap…or some such shit in Hardlines his whole “career”. (I put career in quotations, because anyone who considers Target their long-term employment enrichment source is smoking something). Anyways, I quit January 21st, and so obviously there was no longer anyone there to fix his fuck-up’s. Well, his visits went from good to “What the hell happened?”. He was transferred out of Apparel and back into Hardlines for being a screw up from Hell, and some other dipshit who has no idea what he’s doing has been put there instead.

I love this story because I was under-appreciated and taken advantage of while I was there. I fixed my Team Lead’s massive fuck ups for him daily, while he got pats on the back every visit by our DTL who didn’t even know my name…although I was the one rocking out with my metaphorical cock out.

Now they see what a dumbass this dude is and gave him the boot back to Hardlines. I just love it. And I love not having to ever walk back in there and see that stupid-ass Spot. Ugh…I hate that dog.

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I, like every person out there, believed Target was a better employer than Walmart. Take it from someone who has worked for both companies, the only difference between T and W is that Target is way better at deception. Target DOES NOT care about their employees. Their idea of appreciating an employee is handing them an ice cream cone and a red card, like we are five year olds. They are the most anal retentive company I have ever work for. They cannot even give us 15 minutes extra of payroll and they try their best to cut 15 minutes when possible. Our shifts aren’t long enough to say that we are eating up the payroll budget  and our pay is minimal so it just amazes me how far this company will go to save a few bucks. Walmart wasn’t perfect but it was never that stingy. I keep reading people’s comment “its retail, what do you expect” and I think its such a defeatist comment. What if people working in steel mills and other factory jobs had said that. They wouldn’t have unionized and bettered their lives. Just because our jobs consist of scanning items and cleaning after the pigs who decide to come out of their sties only to mess up our stores does not mean that we don’t deserve to make a livable wage. I keep hearing that the reason why we retail employees are paid so little is because our jobs aren’t so hard…trust me, it takes a lot of restraint not to punch some of these customers, managers, and co workers in the face. It takes a lot of grace and strength to go to work everyday smiling, doing a hundred things at a time and knowing that at the end of your shift you’ve made less than $30. Target, with its fast fun friendly motto,  has done a great job at painting themselves as the good guy but the truth is that Target, just like Walmart, has fought off unions. Target spends more time showing an anti-union video to its new hires than on their training. That alone tells you how much Target cares about their employees. They pay their employees less and get more out of them.

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I work for the Pueblo Colorado Dist. Center. 15 years I worked there! 4 years ago, they told me that I had to drive the red tagged equipment or be fired!! I am single Mom with 5 kids; I drove it. I could not afford to be fired. Needless to say, it had no brakes, no steering and I was crushed! In the state of Colorado YOU CAN NOT SUE YOUR EMPLOYER!! I did go to court for my medical care because they dropped all my care 6 weeks after my accident……I was in a walker. I have nerve damage called C.R.P.S.. It basically tells my brain I am in the height of the accident 24/7/365. (The work comp. doctors knew I had this but FAILED to tell me. They did release me to FULL DUTY in my walker??)

I have won 4, yes four times in court now. They have written their acceptance for liability twice. STILL THEY PAY NOTHING!! I need a surgery that costs a quarter mill. I owe over a quarter mill………The Sedgewick claims management co denies all medical!! By the way, Target is SELF insured, Sedgewick just handles claims….That is Target language for confusing and B.S.ing.. A lot like Hewitt, where it’s much more paper work and nothing gets done!

I am calling out to ALL Target employees……WE ARE SLAVES WITHOUT LAWS TO PROTECT US. Call O.S.H.A…..report unsafe work environments! It IS confidential……………Take notes at your safety meetings! There is a reason they WONT KEEP RECORDS WE CAN REACH! I know many things that can help you if you were hurt. Colorado is awful, if I quit my position to get state help, then I accept responsibility for my medical costs. So Target holds me in a state of “INACTIVE EMPLOY” Write to your state officials! Contact me TRCrackers@msn.com……..This is not a place of employment, it is a place where you are a slave tossed out like a dog when you are of no further use to them. It is not taxpayer responsibility to pay medical costs to injured workers. It is corporate responsibility!!!! The rich are getting richer, and the workers are getting screwed!! Let’s help each other………If a union rep had been in the building I could have said “NO.”  There is your reason they FEAR UNION…………..!!! Stick together, I fear for my co-workers….those I know and those I don’t! God bless, I appreciate any prayers to help me have strength in my battle, it is all of you that keep me fighting the evil known as TARGET!!

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