Target Sucks - We Hate Target and We Know We're Not Alone.

  • December 30, 2011 - katbabe81

    Anyone out there work for a DC?

    I work for the one in Kansas. I can tell you it is just as bad there as it is in the stores. Granted we do make a bit more, but they work us 5.5 hrs before our first break on a 12 hr shift. This past summer when it was really hot we had One teamember drop a day in the l loading or un loading teammember drop frOm heat. No extra breaks. They just tell us to drink over 120oz of water

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  • - aba934

    Target Fucked my Christmas

    I got a new white 8 Gig iPod Touch from target for Christmas from my mom. She bought it on black Fri and it came with a 40 dollar gift card. my mom used the 40 dollar gift card not thinking otherwise. Well i got the ipod on christmas. It froze on the second fucking day. I was pretty pissed, but i took it back and target gave me a giftcard and a raincheck so i coukld get the ipod for the 160 like my mom paid. I was like “ok cool ill just get a new one” But Target didn’t want me to. Target decided that they were gonna be out of the 8 gig white ipods. 2 days in a row I called target at the openin time. They were always out. So then I started calling other targets and they were all out too. Finally i called and a target had one. so we left for target. When we got there The guy there didn’t have it. They were all out. I told him that I had called not even and hour ago and they said they have 1 left. He says “We haven’t had any the whole day. Thanks Target for lying.

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  • December 27, 2011 - classymujer

    TARGET RUINED MY CHILD’S CHRISTMAS AND COULDN’T CARE LESS!

    A month before x-mas, I ordered a Singer sewing machine for my daughter. Weeks went by so I started calling Target (because they never kept me up to date) at which time the team members would tell me that the item was on it’s way. Four day before x-mas I called again because my gift still had not arrived , but my card had been charged for weeks. It was at that time that a team member told me that the merchandise was on back ordered and that they would refund my money in 10-12 days. So I was now without the gift, without the money and when I asked if they could check if a nearby Target had it, I was told they were all out of stock. I asked to speak to a supervisor and after being hung up on 3 times, the supervisor said there was nothing they could do to help me. I got on the computer and found that they were in stock in a Target an hour away so I took a day off work, drove an hour and bought the same machine but it was $15 more because it was no longer on sale. I will never give them my business.  I tried to call to complain and they refused to allow me to speak to anyone other than the rude, condescending and dismissive team members.  I have never ever been so frustrated and offended by a store. Shame on Target, thanks for saving me a lot of money in your store. The gift cards that I always bought there for my family, I now purchased at a store that cares about their customers and who has good customer service.  I guess the reason your company doesn’t have many complaints is because you don’t provide an avenue for people to file a complaint. How small of you Target!!!

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  • December 24, 2011 - ferb

    Liar Liar

    Just thought I’d say how Target sucks.  I recently bought a tv there because I was told I would have 6 months free interest on my new Target credit card.  I was also told that the tv came with an keyboard remote.  Neither was true.

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  • December 23, 2011 - tonyvee

    I might get fired this week:/

    well my name is tony. I’m 19. I was hired by target as seasonal cashier. My store is located in the city of manhattan beach, ca. Well what happened was I was scheduled to work from 4pm to 12:30am last Sunday, but my uncle and his family happened to be in a fatal car accident at around 3:30 pm so while I was preparing to go to work I received a call from my father. He had told me about my uncle. So without calling target and letting my GSTL know what had transpired I quickly drove to the hospital and didn’t go to work that day. Today I was scheduled to work again but I didn’t show up because I was at church and I had forgotten.

    Anywho, I don’t think workin at target was working out. I had two lunch violations and I didn’t like working there.

    Reasons why were because the GSTL’s At my target are douche’s, slot of the so called “team members” either walk past you and seem to ignore you or they are bitchy, executive team leaders are r******d too. One time my GSTL put me as greeter/cart giver. And one of the exec’s happened to be walkin near the entrance and he told me I wasn’t doing my job when on past 4 days I was at that post for 7 hours straight. He made his fucking comment by just watching me for 5 min’s.

    I also hate the hr dept people that are a pain to deal with. . I go to school on tue and thus and I had talked to my GSTL about getting those days off and she said yes. I then proceeded to fill out an availability form and it has been rejected 4 times now. Because of that b/s I have missed three weeks of school. Going back to missing one of my lunches well in reality i had only missed 1 here’s why. In one occasion I had punched the “end meal” button instead of the “work meal” button. I had let the hr person know what happened and she said “oh it’s ok. when you get back from lunch just hit the start work button and we will fix the problem. DONT WORRY” well one week later she calls me in and told me I got another lunch violation and made me sign and initial some stupid papers. I even told her that she said everything was going to be fine and she was going to fix the problem but she just told me. “you still missed your lunch”. I just signed my name on the paper all sloppy and left.
    Well this is my experience working at this lame-ass company. I hope at least I do get to keep the job

    –TONY–

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  • December 17, 2011 - wastedyears

    Don’t make a long term commitment to Target.

    Most Target Stores are actively trying to get rid of all older, long term team members.  I am reporting my experience to my state EEOC.  I have for seen them systematically using any excuse to fire or force team members out — all of which have worked for target for over 15 years. I am a recent recipient of  this fate.  I ran a fully green area.  I have seen them try to trick Team members into talking about work after they have clocked out and then write them up for it.  They used the pfresh remodels to write team members up for poor scores, when they had little control of what the remodel teams were doing to their areas.  I heard from a reliable source that STLs are being told to get out all the long term team members.  With a it’s them or you kind of inference.   If this has happened to you I encourage you to contact the EEOC as well.  They will continue to get away with this if we all don’t speak-up.

     

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  • - fuck_target

    Target is unfair

    So I have been at target for a year now working in the backroom, and when I first started, everything seemed to be going fine. Within the first few months, I heard I would be getting a raise, so I thought I was doing great. When it came though, I found out my pay had raised by five cents an hour. WTF! It was like a giant slap to the face, like I’m only worth an extra five cents. Then they started leading me on to become a team lead, and started giving me tasks to do everyday other than my normal backroom duties. It went on for months, but still no sign of the promotion. They eventually said I should come up with some goals or some bullshit, then never got back to me. I found out recently someone who has been there for just a couple months is already up for promotion, which kinda pisses me off. They dump all the work on the lowly peons we are to them, and get upset and cry like little babies when we are unable to get all the work done.

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  • December 16, 2011 - formerteammember17

    worst run company I’ve ever seen

    I worked at supertarget for just over 4 years.  I’ve never seen a company so good at finding what works and then going out of their way to fuck it up. Overall the experience was a train wreck.  Employees were treated like slaves, overworked and greatly underpaid.  They preached about working as a team, yet we were coached and written up for talking with other team members even if we were both working.  They don’t want free thinking team members, they want mindless zombies that halfheartedly ask every customer “can i help you find something” before sprinting to the registers for a backup.  And don’t even think about changing your availability.  Just getting my availability changed for school took weeks of back and forth fighting with my department Etl, who repeatedly rejected the request without reason.  At one point he actually accepted the request and then deleted it, telling me a few days later that he never received it.  Even after I showed him the email saying the request was approved, he claimed it was a computer error.  As far as time off requests go…. don’t even bother.  A request that I put in over a month in advance for the week before thanksgiving (since we’re required to work black friday I wasn’t able to go out of town to visit family so I attempted to go the week before instead) was denied, his reason was “you have to work black friday”.  um….dumbass I didn’t request black friday off I requested one day for the week BEFORE.  When I asked him about it all he said was “oops, well it’s too late to change it now, sorry”.  I put in my 2 weeks and timed it so that my last day was the day before my requested day off.  I will never work for this company again and strongly advise anyone thinking of applying to turn around and run, not walk, out of that place.

    I will however, say that it was not all entirely bad all the time.  We had a small number of good etl’s and team leads (although the vast majority were complete idiots).  We also had a very good team of hard working employees, and to those who suffered alongside me in this hellhole through all those miserable shifts, I thank you for making the job just a little less terrible

    one last note to show just how idiotic this company can be, they called me the day AFTER my last day of work to ask if I would go in and close for them.  I had to explain to them that they have to call actual employees for that sort of thing, not people who no longer work for the company.

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  • - SinnIsADeadMan

    I just quit target

    Target is the worst place to work for because it is nothing but a lie right from the start.
    I just quit my flow/zone job at target after only 3 weeks because it was the worst job I have ever had. I HAVE NEVER QUIT A JOB BEFORE!!!!

    #1. It says its Fast, Fun, and Friendly… Bull shit They think because they have PB and J sandwitches thats suppost to be fun?
    You cant talk, have music, sing, or ask questions or get answers!

    #2. The so called team leaders are all yuppy controling boring assholes who act as thoe working at target is like saving the lives of millions. They are all snooty and ignore anything you ask of them. They never say hi to you only to the people they wanna say hi to.

    #3. They always have negitive feedback to the job you are doing such as
    (we didnt do so good today cause we took 23 seconds longer to finish then yesterday)

    I was finally sick of the hypocrisy and mombo jumbo of this bullshit place people take way too seriously. Its a shame cause it could be a great place to work but as quint said in Jaws (theres too many captins on this island

    Or on your second day of work hearing (you should know this by ow)
    ,
    #4. The day shift all fuck around and laugh yell in the mics. But once night shift starts its a concentration camp.

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  • December 11, 2011 - zilada5

    Time To Quit!

    I was hired on as a Seasonal Early Morning Flow Team Member back in October. I should have known right from the beginning when, a week after my interview (when they said they’d contact me the next day about hiring), they still hadn’t called. I called them to inquire and they invited me in that same day for a formal job offer. Yay!

    Next came orientation. It was me and a few other Flow Team new hires, all seasonal (one of whom quit her first week). They told me during orientation, and during the interview, that I would work Flow Team and after 60 days, would have the opportunity to crosstrain for additional hours. When handed my training schedule, lo and behold, “Cashier” was my day 3. Not a happy camper. There’s a reason I didn’t apply as a Cashier. When I asked about it, they said it was a requirement to be trained as a Cashier. I asked why I wasn’t told about that and they said, “Surely, you were.” I think I would have remembered that.

    Flow Team training seemed to be ok – my trainer was pretty cool, but the Team Lead has a way of guilting us into staying past our end time on days when we’re running behind. I caught on early and have since refused to stay late, even though he can sometimes make it uncomfortable and awkward to say no to a couple extra hours. About a week into it, I figured out that my trainer had told me quite a few things that weren’t correct about how to do the job – “Just put the dog food and chemicals on the same backstock cart.” “Yes, we have to break down even these really tough boxes.” “Go straight to HB after A and B are done every day.” (Team Leader usually wanted me somewhere else after A and B and told me not to assume anything. I said that my trainer said to and he said HE was the leader, not my trainer.)

    Then, 3 weeks into my work there, my Team Leader “trained” me on stocking food and on the Flow Team job itself (Yes, THREE weeks after starting, I was “officially” trained). This training consisted of him sitting beside me at the computer and literally telling me the answers to the questions on the test before I even had a chance to read the question, and I never read the booklet. Great job, Team Leader. I feel super prepared.

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