So i know im most likely going to come off as a spoiled brat but I really want to be fired. Im 20 years old and in college, and before anyone says it, target is actually my 4th job, which includes subway, mcdonalds, and a professional office, and i hate target so much id willing go back to my fast food job. i was never hired as seasonal but to get the job i had to have complete open availability, so as soon as my 3 month trail period was over i dropped my availability down for school, and its been down hill from there. never mind that i worked waaay over over 30 hours a week and managed somehow to go to school full time for the 1st 3 months i worked there. they also schedule me at times that buses do not run, and i dont drive.  i have been “coached” for multiple things from zoning too slow(i had never been trained in hardlines before, simply because i am female, likewise there are no males in softlines), zoning too sloppy, wearing a blue shirt under a red sweater (although multiple etls had complimented me on it, this has happened two times with different shirts), and for attendance. im tired of coming home crying after every shift and I’ve never been fired before, but to be honest i wish i was. I live at home with my parents and they pay for most of my needs so i dont need the job to survive, and while only getting 6 hours a week now i dont think the money really matters, i’m pretty sure they’re trying to get me to quit on my own though. So that kinda brings me to my problem, my mother has told me to quit multiple times, but my father is old school and would totally kill me if i quit, but i think he would be pretty sympathetic to me being fired. So if i wanted to get fired other than by, i guess, being myself, what should i do? should i just do a no call no show? and if i do get fired does anyone know what i should expect?

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I have been working at my Target store since September 2011. I got hired right before the holiday season, but was not seasonal. I was cross-trained in softlines, hardlines, and cashiering. I was taught how to push CAFs, work the fitting room, work in electronics, and even put the phones on overhead! How enjoyable my days were at Target before the holidays started.

When I was hired, I was warned by the ETL that there would be nights we would not get out until midnight .. especially with the upcoming holiday season. I agreed, yes, I can see how this is possible. I understand. I have worked in retail before, I know the demands. I know guests can be rude, I know I’ll be expected to run my butt off for little pay, I understand that there will be little appreciation. Regardless, I have found that Target is one of the only places I know of that will allow a full-time college student to work 40 hours a week. How lucky am I?

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I been working at the same target for more then a year now, I probably gotten one weekend off the entire time. They will give weekends off to two of the same cashiers all the damn time. Why? because they sell red cards. there is an old guy and a Mexican women who both have an honest face but lies through their teeth about the REDcards,telling guest whatever they want to hear. So they get rewarded for lieing that great A college student like me who goes to school and work and be honest about everything get to work all weekend as a reward. When spring semester ends I will be looking for another job and I will never give them greedy basted my money again.

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Okay thank God for this website. I have worked for target for about 5 and a half months and I hate it so much. I’m only 19 and everyone I work with is older. I hate when they treat me like they are more important than me. I am a sales floor member in softlines and a back up cashier. Okay first of all I signed up for a full time but I only get about 2 to 3 days a fucking week and they are like 4 hour shifts. Then every day that I am not scheduled, they call me in the morning because they want me to come in. Uhm do you not have enough employees can you leave me the fuck alone sometimes? When I cashier I NEVER ask the “guest” if they want to sign up for a stupid red card because it feels annoying and I hate when people do that shit to me. The only thing getting me through this annoying ass job is all the other Co workers that I’m friends with that complain as much as I do. I usually don’t even put shit back in the right place and I’m really lazy and slow. I’m surprised they still keep me and they have never complained about my work. And they better not cause their bullshit is not worth the pay. Plus I have another job anyway so I have to change my target availability. Hopefully that goes over well. I have have to go there in 13 hours to work and I’m already dreading it.

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Last year I left my job at Target (over 2 yrs.).  The management didn’t know how to run the store properly.  I worked in the Starbucks franchise inside the Target store in Cherry Hill, NJ.  We lost 2 baristas in the span of 2 months.  This left us with 1 team lead and 3 part-time baristas to work 7:30am to 9:30pm Monday thru Saturday and 7:30am to 8:30pm on Sundays. One part time person had extremely limited hours ( No new employees were hired for the positions until 4 months later). They had me working hours alone at night giving me no help when I called for it. WITH NO TRAINING TO DO SO, they gave me new people to train.  I had reported this to my supervisor, human resources manager, and the store manager and no action was taken.  I was just told to do my best.  I walked into the store one morning, handed in my uniforms to a LOD and explained to her why I was resigning.  Target claims that I was a no call no show for the 5 days after I quit.  After waiting almost 3 months I am currently still awaiting an answer from an appeal for unemployment I made against Targets response to me filling.  This is not acceptable behavior for a company, especially one that claims to be FAST, FUN, AND FRIENDLY!

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Hello, fellow Target haters. I am very pleased to announce that after almost 5 years of slavery to this hellish company, I have put in my notice and am running the f*ck away. I will never shop Target after my last day, as I now know how the employees are treated. The only reason I shop there as it is, is because I work there and get the measly 10% discount. (Pinch me!! TEN percent??).

During my time at Targay, I broke the golden rule of never having your cell phone on the sales floor…and I used my cell phone to take pictures of my bosses breaking rules, being lazy, and projects that were wildly f*cked up beyond comprehension. (Projects my boss either did, or assigned to somebody else and ignored their screw ups). I took pictures of the projects after I’d go in and fix them up, and I’m e-mailing it all to my district team lead this Saturday. Not so that I can ever have a chance at getting a job there again, but so that the employees I’m leaving behind might have it a little better once the DTL sees what’s going on there. Not just the perfectly-zoned store, or the fake smiles, or hearing the prepared answers to his questions.

I find that after reading through this site quite thoroughly that I am definitely not alone in my experiences with Target. I have worked at several different stores, and while I was employed at the first store, I thought, ‘This place is so messed up…I should transfer to a store that treats its employees fairly’. So I did transfer, and found the exact same problems at that store…management is lazy, employees are unhappy, and nobody has any real qualifications to be leaders…they don’t even really possess natural leadership abilities. They are simply young kids, fresh out of college, who scored a gig being a manager at a Big Box retail store. Since most of them are all in their early 20’s, they still have the egotism of a toddler first breaking free of its dependence on its parents. Target’s management staff is oftentimes totalitarian, and is ran like a dictatorship. The management places themselves on a pedestal, not realizing that they are simply poorly-paid employees of a much bigger picture.

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I have worked at target for a little over four years now. When I started there I liked the place and thought it was a good place to shop and work.

well the stuff that i have seen there has totally changed my opinion on the store.

I have seen with my own eyes how the store cuts hours of people that have been with the store for more time, and give extra hours to new hires at the same time. they would rather save a few cents and have a new hire in the building than pay the experienced worker for the same hours.

one thing that pro target people might be interested to learn is that other than cardboard the store does not recycle anything. at my store at least all the stuff that guests put in those nice recycling bins gets thrown out  with the normal trash. i am willing to bet if it happens at the store i work in at happens at others…

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