Okay, so I graduated high school early and thought, “I shop at target all the time, so why not work there?” The first job interview I had, they had me wait for an hour and during the time two employees asked me if I was sure I wanted to work there. When they actually conducted my interview, I had to leave because I had other plans. They called me back and did the interview again, this time someone at Starbucks mentioned how horrible management at target is. I was called in AGAIN so they could offer me a position. Instead, they just threw me in soft lines when I had put in my application I wanted starbucks. During orientation the woman spent so much time talking about an app that she skipped the lunch break and half the things in the handbook. Plus, she kept us over two hours late. The next day, I was supposed to train with someone and she already went home. They messed up on two schedules for me and had to give me a new one. People kept forgetting about me so I went from fitting room, to grocery, to carts, and back. They worked me right up until my class (which they knew about) and I have to go in today and do it again. I’ve already been there a few days and I can tell the management sucks.
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(2) I’m 31 but feel like I’m 50 because the lack of experience in some of these positions is kind of sickening, and the workers filling them are brain washed idiots who have such little work experience they just regurgitate the salaried management videos. There are so many times a manager doesn’t get how to do simple tasks, but wants to pretend to be a leader at Target. It’s pretty funny, but also ridiculous. I have 20 something in every level of management at my store, and while you say I’m not much older in years…. well I have spent my working years in retail where clearly many of these “leaders” have not. They make silly decisions, and have egos about being the one to say what will get done, it’s just a bad structure for business. It will implode and hopefully I will be done with my masters and moved on to a career by then!
Likes(34)Dislikes(6) Ahhh further proof that Target doesn’t care. We are opening at 6 pm which really meaning 4 pm for some workers on Thanksgiving. Way to go Target! If you don’t work you will be fired, regardless of circumstances. Just as bad as Walmart! Actually worse cause Walmart knows they are trashy, and Target tries to cover it up with red.
Likes(39)Dislikes(9) I just want to post my experience with target and see if its familiar with anyone else.
I have been at the store for about 3 months and have finally decided to put my 2 weeks in and go back to school in January. This was my first retail job and i decided to apply at target, all of my friends and girlfriend told me dont do retail because its the worst..i kinda figured that everybody hates their job and it cant be that bad..jobs suck why would retail be any different? I was wrong.
Likes(22)Dislikes(10) had an interview for a season job. Offered the job. But also offered a job at kohls. For early morning stock. Don’t know which one to take. I am leaning more towards kohls. But do they let male employees wear long hair? Does anyone know. Plus would target work me over 25 hrs a week. That’s all I signed up to work for. On my application?
Likes(1)Dislikes(12) Alright, children! Here’s the news: I was let go! Over something so simple (which I’m not mad about). I didn’t know I had work, yesterday, and did not call an LOD or GSA because I didn’t find out I had missed work until this morning. I never liked working there, anyway. The first managers from last year were always bugging me about redcards and one treated her coworkers and customers like they were idiots, and by the time they transferred and the store got new LODs and GSA (or whatever they are called), I was tired of being treated rudely by customers all because I simply asked them if they wanted a redcard, or when they forget some of their groceries and blame me for not telling them about it. Some of their problems have nothing to do with Target and it’s employees, and they brought their attitudes to me and my former coworkers. Another problem I always had with this store was that the cash registers never worked right. They would freeze in the middle of a transaction, and this year they would even shut down while I was scanning items.
Likes(15)Dislikes(7) I usually go to high end stores to shop even though I like Targets merchandise because of all the horror stories about how they treat employees. I witnessed this today in a CT store. I will not be more specific because I don’t want the employee to get in trouble for venting. First of all, as I was checking out, the cashier was rudely interrupted by the management staff. They told him “he was in trouble for calling in to say he’d be 15 min late.” In WHAT world do you get in trouble for calling in LATE one time. This is horrific. Secondly, he should have been spoken to in private. He told me he was not aware the rules had changed & that he would be in trouble for that. He told me “he wished he was dead since he got laid off in the recession and had to work at Target, & told me of some of the “rules,” that seemed more like slave labor mandates instead of “rules.”
Likes(57)Dislikes(6) Unlike any other store out there, I am followed by security when I enter my local target. This has been going on since 2009 so I rarely go. I get so frustrated because I have no idea why they do it and why they make it so obvious. I have never stolen anything in my life outside of a piece of gum off my cousin’s dresser when I was 5. I spend my money where I’m appreciated.
Likes(5)Dislikes(8) Target was my first job 15 years ago; I was 16 when I was hired. Minimum wage was $5 something, Target started at $6.00, $0.25 raise after you passed your first 90 days. If you were kept past 90 days you started accruing paid time off, had reasonable health coverage options as PT, and were eligible for cost of living increases plus your performance increase. I was hired for hardlines and had plenty of training: a day of onboarding (general policies, store orientation, safety videos) and two weeks of peer training. I had a designated trainer who I shadowed for all my shifts, with the exception of 1 cashier shift where I shadowed someone else to learn the registers for back up. Once I started college, I could take educational leaves and know my job was still there every summer, winter, and spring break. My STL trusted me and knew me by name, my ETL was great and really cared, and all my TLs were at least competent and fair if not more. I was there just shy of 5 calendar years, but it was ~3.5 yrs “work time (what counts for performance increases)” when you took out my leaves. I started at $6.00, and by the time I left was up to $9.45 just from increases, no promotion (at a time when minimum wage was up to $6.40). I truly loved my job.
Likes(17)Dislikes(15) Let me preface this by stating our store used to close at 10 pm. We now close at 11. Staying 2-3 hours late gets us clocked out sometimes at 1 am and on some occasions nearing 2 am. It was normal for us to have our zones completed by 11 in hardlines, but for some reason we are constantly being kept late and it gets blamed on softlines who they rarely have more than 2-3 people working ALL of softlines. Now we have low coverage in hardlines as well, but when the reshop is out of control on Saturday’s for example, there is little chance of it being completed by closing from the softlines people. The cashiers leave on time no matter what… but they use hardlines to help softlines and even when everything seems to be completed we are still kept additional hour(s). If I am scheduled from 3pm to 11:30 pm I think it should be reasonable to expect to leave by 12:00 am which is already 30 minutes past my shift. I sometimes have assignments that need turned in by the morning, but they really don’t care how much they screw our schedules up. I have even worked till 2 am and they knew I had to come in early for ad placement at 6 am but they said I had to show up or be fired. BLECH
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