May 29, 2014 - flowblows
Target…Kinda Like A Prison Camp That Pays A Poverty Wage
So I was hired as a “Full-Time” Overnight Flow Team Member at the Super Target #2220 in Norman Oklahoma. I quickly realized that Target’s definition of “Full-Time” is 20 – 25 hours per week. WTF? Thanks a lot for telling me during the interview so I could have politely said “Fuck no I can’t live off of $8K per year!” Oh, but wait…I forgot Target loves to supplement your poverty wage with get benefits like a free cupcake or honeybun in the break-room. Due to the insanely low hours you will be scheduled you will likely never see any real benefits (401K, sick time. etc.) materialize working for Target, so Invest your break-room junk food wisely!
Target is supposed to be fast, fun and friendly. They do love fast – I’ll give them that, there are little brain-washing slogans around every corner in the back rooms that say “Speed is Life”. News flash assholes “Life is life” and your fucking communist corporate subliminal slogan isn’t making me work any faster. I didn’t experience anything fun or friendly working at store #2220 in Norman Oklahoma. Most of my co-workers exhibited little to no free thought. They were pre-programmed to do the most Infinitesimal tasks like lobotomized robots. Lateral micro-management is out of control. Have to take a piss or change a tampon? You are going to have co-workers popping out of aisles challenging what you are doing. Have a certain way you prefer to break-down cardboard with your box knife, oh fuck no you’ll have 25 different dumb shit co-workers telling you how to do it. Co-workers love to try and direct you to push a certain aisle, I would usually give them a look like “Who the fuck are you to tell me what to do?” and then continue what I was doing.
The Target atmosphere is oppressive. You feel your life-force being sucked from you as you approach the building at the start of your shift. The Team Leads and ETL’s want you to constantly work faster so they can push you out the door earlier and earlier each night further cutting your low hours.
I thank god that I got the fuck out of Target after coming to my senses just a few short weeks after starting.
Anyone working for this evil fucking company has my sympathy.
My advice to potential employees: DON’T DO IT! You’ve been warned.
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I was told the same thing when I started during 4th quarter, that my position was "full-time," despite it being anything but. When I confronted my TL at the time (after 4th quarter) she said "technically I wasn't lying; you were working 35-40 hours a week when you first started right?" and that was the end of the conversation.
Every time I go up into the breakroom and see the expired baked goods laid out on the table with all of the bullshit slogans on the walls it makes me want to put a bullet in my head.
Thankfully it's pretty damn hard to get fired from Target, so you can essentially tell people to fuck off and all you'll get is a talking to about your attitude. Unless it's to a TL or an ETL, then it's like declaring war on a nation full of morons.
Something that bothers me is that at my store when I would have a day off, I would get called in. Now, that's not the post that bothers me, what bothers me is when I say no, they ask me why. Isn't it unprofessional for them to do that? To get into the personal lives of their employees? Oh, and I also feel the life being sucked out of me of just the thought of showing up to work.
that's why you use credit cards that costs 2% of their profits to process. Better yet if you have access to a world elite or infinite use it. Their issuer td offered me a nice card that will cost target 2% of my bill to process. Tehe. The one time I bought something from target, I paid with my pc mc. The interchange on it is variable so target doesn't know much they'll get dinged from the order. Plus I used chip on purpose because it costs target 1% of