I started working inbound, 4 am shifts a little over a month ago. At first, I was doing what I thought I would be. I put my hours requested for 20-24 hours a week, and started doing multiple 4 hour shifts every other day. It was great- get there early, leave the store at 8 when the store opened. Then, December hits. Immediately my hours are going up to an insane degree, working multiple 8 hour days as opposed to my 4 hour days. I am so fatigued by the end of my shift its insane. The other day, I had two team leads come and complain to me that I wasn’t moving fast enough for inbound- that I needed to be unloading Uboats in 20-40 minutes, tops. In my mind, I’m thinking, what the fuck? It usually takes an hour or longer for a large/filled Uboat unless its larger items. After the first team lead I thought it was fine, but when I had a second guy come, who started hassling me saying I needed to have a sense of “Urgency” and even TIMED ME on how long a flatbed would take to unload. They’re saying it should average 1 minute per box, so he gave me 25 minutes. I’m having to rush to even get this stuff in its place, not to mention the store was open at the time- having to not get in the way of customers. It was awful. He kept talking on the radio as well to check in on me, constantly keeping me moving. I can’t be walking around that fast all day or my legs are gonna give out.
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(0) Ahhhh Target….
I never looked back at this place. In fact, if it weren’t for them firing me, I probably would still be working there, making my good ol’ $7.50 an hour Night differential. Or maybe even get a raise and go to $8.00!
First job I got hired for I don’t even remember what it was called (3rd shift – received truck loads and stocked shelves) because within two weeks, I was asked if I wanted to transfer to Backstocking. This either was their way of getting me off the floor or “promoting me” to a better position. I don’t know and I don’t care. Long story short, I wasn’t completing my tasks within the allotted amount of time granted by the Almighty Computer-generated Timesheet and before the end of my 90 days, my “Employment with Target was Terminated”.
How did I get here?
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