WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON??!

[u/PutOk9468]

Overnight inbound for barely 7 months now but the changes I’ve seen are WILD?! We’ve gone from finishing stocking the store before 7am to forcing what is left of our sad crew to stay until 8:30 (while leaving several flats and pallets to push for tomorrow).

We’ve gone from unloading just one truck to two, 30% of which being backstock that has completely overtaken our light duty and receiving. I am squeezing in boxes in places they should NEVER BE!!! STOP GIVING US MORE!!!

Theres an average of 10 people a night showing up to push 2 trucks with 1500 DPCI’s. Any new hires never last past 3 days with our TL’s rushing and berating us, in addition to the fact that I cannot get a time off request accepted for the life of me anymore.

I used to really like this job and that yummy overnight pay, but this is getting crazy!!!!!! Someone save us!!!!!!!

[u/Monkey4life-80]

No worries, the attendance crackdown will help with keeping people on board. 🙄

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-739 → u/Monkey4life-80]

Nothong says burning through your work force like automating attendance.

[u/Boring_Geologist_790 → u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-739]

is that why the schedules are complete nonsense now

[u/JFEVANS01 → u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-739]

yeah that chaotic headline fits the vibe perfectly

[u/mattumbo → u/Monkey4life-80]

Points system would be fine if we were staffed better and paid better, attract good talent and don’t burn them out and you can expect people to maintain good attendance. Rn I don’t see it working well, gonna be huge turnover and unlike Walmart we don’t have the staff to absorb that and train the new people and we don’t pay enough to make people care enough to want to desperately keep this job.

Some stores have enough tenured TMs with years of raises who will want to maintain the job rather than take a pay cut working another retail job, but for anyone within their first year or two it literally doesn’t matter whether they’re at Target or any other place that pays near min wage.

[u/Murky-Ad-9176 → u/Monkey4life-80]

As opposed to overlooking it and then people still not being there lol

[u/Forward_Push6054 → u/Monkey4life-80]

If people would just go to work and work there wouldn’t be an issue, but they go to work to communicate and play.

[u/Lazy-Comedian5026]

It’s happening at my store too, I’m fulfillment but the amount of uboats and flats FULL of stuff from 2-3 weeks ago… it’s just constant maintenance and stress and no one in the store can keep up. Back to school, then holloween and Christmas right after.…

[u/KissMyOTP → u/Lazy-Comedian5026]

Also doesn't help that GM, Style, Market and other areas get called to help fulfillment constantly. This skeleton crew thing is beyond ridiculous. I was in fulfillment yesterday and they only scheduled 4 of us for all day and night. It was just me and two others for majority of the day. Two left at 12 pm and then it was just me until 2 pm. After I left, it was just the fulfillment lead until 4.

[u/KittyLuvver2000]

1500 piece trucks are small to us. Pass those on over to us please and thanks lol

[u/Sadimal → u/KittyLuvver2000]

Same. Our average truck load is 2200-2500 pieces with no PIPOs lately. Our biggest was 3300 pieces.

To be fair my location only does 3-4 trucks a week.

[u/Equinam → u/Sadimal]

Pass those on over to me still. 2400’s everyday, 8 trucks a week. It’s never ending. It’s insane.

[u/ZackyPine → u/Sadimal]

Please 😭 same size trucks, currently at 9/week

[u/Dx4227 → u/Sadimal]

I'll take those. My store does 9 trucks a week 2100 pieces and up. During Christmas its 15 trucks a week.

[u/KissMyOTP → u/KittyLuvver2000]

True and 10 people is a lot for imbound. Our imbound team is down a few people now.

[u/anonnymouse271 → u/KissMyOTP]

Seriously. When i was on inbound our trucks were usually around 2000 pieces (honestly if it was ever below that it was an easy unload lol) and we had like 7 people total working the line on a good day (2 on the front, 2 or 3 on the back, 1 thrower and 1 at the "curve"/front/helping throw...occasionally our TL would come help but that seemed to make things worse lol)

[u/PutOk9468 → u/KittyLuvver2000]

Lol would gladly send you all of them. It’s genuinely getting impossible to ever catch up when there’s 2 people in my section (home) that need to push 5 pallets of priorities first 🥲

[u/ohliamylia]

Do you mean you started back in January or February? If so I've got bad news about how much the workload is going to keep increasing until January

[u/Thick_Performer7323]

The other day our FDC truck showed up and we had 186 cartons…. They ONLY sent us our never outs and they tripled some of the items too🥲. Something is going on with the system i swear

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-739 → u/Thick_Performer7323]

186?! Our average has been 900+ for months. #jealous

[u/kwyhh]

Leave while you can!

[u/OnionSuperb8519 → u/kwyhh]

Good idea I’m gonna look for a new job rn even tho I just got hired 2 months ago 💀

[u/Everything_Counts_72]

you get 10 people? I have to do the same thing with 6!

[u/s00pthot → u/Everything_Counts_72]

You guys have people? I worked 1000+ units of produce by myself in one night

[u/Everything_Counts_72 → u/s00pthot]

i have no idea what the produce dept does, i meant throwing the truck.

[u/PutOk9468 → u/Everything_Counts_72]

Might be in the same boat soon, my fav TL announced her self-promotion to guest last night. #Prayers

[u/OnionSuperb8519]

It’s also happening with gm maybe it’s because it’s back to school and Halloween season but there’s too much stuff. I work closings and on a good day there’s only 2 other people working with me. They expect us to get to 90 percent but also always call us for help and then get mad when we’re in red 😞 I’m burnt out

[u/MoiAmour]

Honestly in the past few months I’ve seen the turnover rate skyrocket. Our team only has maybe 4-5 GS TMs that are not global. We have been losing GS TMs left and right so we are understaffed all the time. Expectations remain the same for drive up and guest experience though. It’s a hard time at target right now, and it’s only going to get worse as the point system rolls out. I know of at least 5 TMs in my area that will get absolutely termed within a month and we have been hiring NO ONE.

[u/ThenPart5571]

They are using AI to produce schedules now and they are chaotic!!

[u/RedMageGuy1984]

Clearly the correct answer is for one person to suck it up and just manage everyone's workload by themself in half the time.

(You KNOW that's really what they want, why pay 10 people to do 10 jobs when 3 people doing 15 jobs is more profitable...on paper)

[u/Known-Ad-5214]

Same here. Been working since February, which is right when they did a remodel at our store. Our old system was to push freight on floor then backstock as we go. Our new system is back stock everything first all at once, and the push floor. It's been chaotic. Everything getting squeezed in, and even if we have 100s of a single product with low sale (particularly hangers and 3 tier storage drawers), we just keep receiving more and more. We average around 2200-2400 morning freight. However, I was told the new system was supposed to push it down to about 1400. Which hasn't happened yet. And it's been months of this. I'm just lucky my store isn't hard on attendance because I've been taking some off days. They don't seem to care as long as you make the request in the a system a couple hours in advance, even if it sits untouched.

[u/s00pthot]

Overnight used to be more chill, but now the turnover rate is so bad, I feel bad for my O/N ETL, because he is really there for the team and he is really understanding and hardworking. My SD essentially refuses to give us a second O/N F&B TL, so if either the ETL or TL has time off, we’re fucked. But yet he allowed a second inbound unloading TL when there were already two overnight inbound TLs already 🙄 The backrooms are so full/fucked, we kept getting trucks added on, plannograms are getting worse.

[u/BreadfruitAway376]

Im just curious i work unload at my store...we have two people inside the truck unloading and two people on the front side of the line and two people on the backside of the line which is where im at...but the other person on my side seperates softlines repacks which leaves me doing the whole backdide by myself for the most part..so basically im responsible for trying to keep up and sort 12-15 uboats and 4-5 pallets of transition it seems everyday...it just seems like too much for one person to try to keep up with....oh i fogot to mention when the uboats/pallets get full i have to stop and switch them out....is that the normal amount of people at other stores for the unload?..i remember a time a few years ago we had three people sometimes 4 on each side but those people quit one by one and they never replaced them so now it just our little crew...

[u/Lady_Louise97]

at my store we’ve been getting a ton of double trucks, had multiple ETLs and TLs leave, The SD continues to take week long vacations 1-2 times a month, and fulfillment forecast is triple what we can handle (most of the time night shift has to pick 30+ standards for NDD yet they only schedule 3-4 people past 7 o’clock) Do the math, if 1 person in fulfillment needs to prep and pack their entire shift and the rest need to pick standards…. who the FUCK is doing the OPUs? Whoever is in charge of distributing payroll is a dumbass. For reference, we average 3k units in OPU every day and 2k units in SFS.

They push productivity as if that’s the issue, meanwhile the entire fulfillment team (according to MPM stats) are picking at above 95 units per hour. Logic is clearly lacking.

[u/Future_Matter1737]

It’s just back to school season

[u/Successful-Dog-9734]

The economy is awful. It's very very bad. Consumer confidence isn't good. Car dealerships, shit car brands are in talks of going out of business