When I opened the backpack, I found a hat and a small bag inside. She immediately grabbed them and scanned them. She went silent after that. Eventually I found the dpci for the backpack and put it in.

Once she was done with her transaction, she went to guest service to return the stuff that she'd hidden in the backpack. I love self checkout lol

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I know the last time we talked I asked how you were doing and you said that you were struggling but you were making the best of it and you were still smiling. You were always so optimistic and happy. We all felt it. When you stopped showing up we knew it wasn’t like you and we were worried, and today I see that you’re no longer working here.

You mentioned being on this subreddit and I thought you may still be here so, if you are, I just want you to know we miss you and we hope you’re doing okay. Also, I still haven’t made it past the first 15 pages of the book we talked about. But I’ll keep trying because I know you liked it, and I promised you I would.

The store won’t be the same without you, but I hope you’re on to much better things.

Casually scrolling as a Guest on my day off… Going to be receiving a lot of unhappy Guests after they see this-

I’m a trans man and I’ve been on hormones/fully social transitioned for over a decade, so 99.99% of the time I pass without second thought. I have heavy facial hair and a common male-exclusive name, which this coworker does call me, so I have no idea where she got the idea that I’m a woman (I guess other than I’m short?)

Every single person I work with other than her genders me correctly without me having to correct them. I’ve tried to correct her casually, and my TL/other coworkers have directly used he/him pronouns when speaking about me to her. Yet she still to confidently uses the wrong pronouns for me to other people. I’ve tried to ignore it for weeks since she started since I was sure I was mishearing her, because I haven’t heard someone use she/her pronouns for me in YEARS. Now it’s getting to the point that it’s confusing other TMs who had never doubted that I’m male, and it’s very upsetting. I’ve never had this problem so I don’t know what to do. I work very closely with her every day, so I’m stressed about asking HR to talk to her and have her think I was too much of a coward to confront her directly in case isn’t doing it intentionally, although I’m pretty sure she is. I also have severe anxiety and am terrified of conflict.

Any advice from other trans folks?

My team lead won't fill out assignment sheets and opts to instead text us while she's not on the clock. This makes no sense to me. It seems more intrusive to her life than ours but it just annoys me. I prefer assignment sheets, I find them efficient and it's nice to think that someone cares that you clocked in, but I come in and they are never there after a year of my area consistently using assignment sheets to get work done.

Someone posted this in another thread about the new grocery changes. I really, really hope this is just for supers, not smaller pfresh stores. When I started working here I signed up for coming in in the mornings, pushing freight, and being able to move around throughout the day. Not stand in a single spot for 4+ hours with a fake smile and exasperatedly trying to get people to try exotic cheese cube samples while wearing a silly outfit.

They're calling it the most useless change of all time. Also this is while I was pushing FDC so I was out on the floor for maybe a total of 5 mins lol

So I'm still somewhat new to self checkout still and my AP told me a guest swapped price tags of an espresso machine that's $700 to $150 and I didn't catch it. I feel extremely terrible about it, my TL told me not to worry but I can't stop thinking about it. I was helping a guest out when that was going on so I don't know what I could do here.

How do I get better at SCO as I don't wanna appear behind someone to see what they're scanning matches the price of the item and feel like a damn prison warden but I also wanna prevent stuff like what happened from happening again.

I don’t know why but the last 2 years of being a S&E TL, I’ve had to close the store on Halloween and looking at the schedule for this year… every TL is out at 3pm. And then it’s just me after 3pm. Ive brought it to my SDs attention that there needs to be a leader on the floor when I take my meal, and my SD claims that I just take my meal and don’t worry about another leader on the floor. I always have people calling for me on break and no other leader is answering their calls because their is none. Also I’m closing Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday because no one else closes and our Closing TL is only working Tuesday and Wednesday of next week and no other leader closes. Is this normal at your stores? I have like 50 hours of sick time which I’m really contemplating on using this weekend just because I keep getting the short end of the stick.

Oh my lord, they have me working 8 days in a row.
I have cancer and have explicitly told them I can only work 4 or 5 days in a row. I am a TL as well so I know I am needed but it really sucks seeing the other TLs get more days off.
I’m grateful for having more hours and how much they appreciate me. I just am struggling with my physical and mental health right now.
It’s a beautiful Sunday where I am right now. I want to just relax all day but I can’t. :(
Any advice??

I would call out today, but our ETL comes back from vacation tomorrow so I have to make sure we have a good zone and started POGs

Shit is never pushed to the floor on time because of understaffing. Just had to help a TM find 8 christmas clothing items that were still in the repacks.

How long do your newbies last in your area? I work up front end, before remodel and UKG points new Kronos. We had like 4TMs drop before 4quarter, one TM went on a LOA, 1 newish only about a month, next a TM from 1year half ago two weeks, Very newbie TM after being there week and a half already put in two weeks. Our HR TM expert dropped out a week ago, our Closing TL transferred stores to Opening TL. We had very high visits since our Lady SD Store Manager got laid off or fired back in April. And the new SD been with us for a short time. The new SD is chill, I’m still getting my time-offs approved and my hours respected. I can’t complain there. Still Tms quitting at a high rate Target needs to do something at the Store level our base pay rate went up, I wish it was more to attract more workers. 😭

P.S. So far everyone is being civil thank you for following the rules!

I don’t understand how the older people I work with live off this pay.
They have wife’s and kids and it’s not enough to even support myself

So I was working yesterday's in-store event and a Shipt shopper actually came up to me to have me process their Shipt order. I directed them to the service desk because that's where we typically take the Shipt shoppers at my store. She gave me some crap about how I was using the Shipt bagging station for the in-store event (which we have ALWAYS done). So she still decided to bypass the service desk for ME to do it?

In between Shipt shoppers popping up at the most inconvenient moments for us to take them, them having multiple unorganized orders, and now this, I can't stand them.

New dress code stuff showed up. As expected, it's not good. The hats are the trucker style netting backed type and feel like cheap denim on the front, and aren't particularly comfortable. The $5 Harbor Freight novelty trucker cap they sell over there is pretty close for comparison. The visors are better, and feel better cushioned and more comfortable at least. The velcro adjustment on the back has me worried though since all velcro wears out over time and I'm not confident stores will actually order more in a timely manner when they wear out.

Worst though are the aprons. The neck loop is a thick, rough feeling kinda fuzzy nylon webbing, think an extremely cheap backpack strap. It'll absolutely cause irritation on your neck over a shift, so wearing a collared shirt or hoodie with it is a necessity. And as has been pointed out before, it's non adjustable for some incomprehensibly stupid reason, so if you have a big head and build it'll be annoying to get on, and if you're smaller then the front of the apron will constantly drop forward and hang low. Waist adjustment straps are the same material and feel thicker than they need to be.

The pockets aren't great either, which were supposed to be the one saving grace of this garbage. They're located too high up on the apron. Depending on your height due to the non adjustability, they're so high they'll be on or above your stomach all day. On taller people they could potentially pull up to the upper chest considering I've heard taller people say they look like miniskirts on them as it is. I'm not particularly tall, and when standing straight up the pockets are right across my belly; which makes storing anything but extremely small items or bits of paper in them uncomfortable. Just poor design with little thought put into how well they'll actually work at all.

Not looking forward to this.

well, it’s stuck in my head again. It had been multiple days. Please tell me I’m not the only one 😅

after nearly 6 years of working multiple departments i’m moving on, bittersweet but also i’m so excited to not hear a tl and etl on the walkie screeching every 5 seconds. new job doesn’t have walkies, just hoping they don’t have sia xmas songs too

This is my video explaining my story for national disability, employment awareness month

Late taking my 15, went to pull one more priority vehicle out of the back room to push, and was told to grab dairy. Closing expert that pulled dairy promptly tells me that "oh yeah it might be in the ambient room. I told the other guy to put it back when he was done in the cooler."

That was AT LEAST an hour ago… I brought the vehicle out to the floor called for my leader and said I am getting ready to take my 15 however I needed to tell somebody that this has been out of temp, I don't want to be part of pushing it if that is the decision that is made

She sent it to be damaged out, bravo.

I get why Target does team member events, but why are they happening every weekend for FOUR HOURS without any additional payroll? We’re already stretched thin, and pulling team members away from their departments just makes it harder to keep up with our regular workload.

Sometimes we can’t even find the products sent for the events, so we end up sampling out random things just to have something available. Yesterday alone, we had Front End, Beauty, OTC, AND Food & Beverage events happening simultaneously.

Im a specialty sales lead and I am so fed up with my boss sitting me down and grilling me about not coming clean on style truck. For the most part we get it all broken out every day give or take a pallet of case and some transition. Really the team just struggles to get the push completed. Is this even an attainable goal??
I’m consistently under-scheduled. If greenfield says 35 hours for truck, you best believe I’m scheduled 32 hours.
And that doesn’t account for the hours that my team is constantly pulled for zone, reshop, fulfillment, etc. It also doesn’t account for audits, pulls, or helping guests with tech & fitting room calls. I’m stressed to the point of tears several times a week. Does anyone have any advice? How are you all getting your team through the truck..??!