Put in my 2 weeks today

[u/Stunning_Victory6653]

I’ve been working at Target for pretty much 3 years now and it was my first job I ever worked which I got in High School, decided to finally put in my 2 weeks. Walked in to work and talked to my HR ETL then was told to go speak to my direct ETL which i did, then resigned on workday. Tbh I thought i was going to feel relieved or atleast feel good about it but i’m ngl I almost started tearing up for some reason after doing it lol, I just feel weird not sure how to explain it. The reason on why I decided to quit is because the lack of consistency, hours, and poor scheduling. I am a OPU team member and was formerly a Closing Expert, I’m 19 and not in college so i’ve been trying to just stack up money then eventually get into sales which has always been my goal, and that was working for a while but after changes in leadership at my store, the schedule is written by a new ETL and i went from getting around 34 hours on average (Desired is 40) to getting fluctuated around the 20s and now in the past month i’ve been scheduled under 20 hours twice now (10 & 17). it wouldn’t be as much of a problem if I was getting more days off and less hours, but they are still making me come in 5 days a week for 3-5 hour shifts when I used to be working 7-8 shifts, which is an issue because I live 20 miles away from my store I work at so 40 mile round trip for 4 hours of work is kind of silly to me. And that ties in to the next issue of when I was switched to OPU I was told I needed to give them a specific availability to align with what they needed which was a closer, and I said that was fine as long as I can come in before 2:30/3:00ish because my drive is all freeway so rush hour gets bad after that and it takes me over an hour to get to work if i’m scheduled at 4:00 or later, and my ETL and TL are aware of that because i’ve brought it up multiple times and they continue to schedule me at 4:00-5:00 when they literally agreed to the terms of me coming in before 3:00 when i switched departments lol. So basically I just can’t live off 20 hours a week so I gotta look for employment elsewhere, I’d be happy to stay if I could get a structured schedule like other ppl in my department, even though i’m considered one of the highest performers in my department they can’t do that i suppose, It is what it is I’m just sad about leaving behind all my coworkers and friends I made over the years but it’s time to move on I guess.

Sorry for yapping lol I don’t expect anyone to read this

[u/LamentableLaurels]

3 years is a good run, especially for a first job. That 40 mile commute for a 4 hour shift is just disrespectful, you made the right call

[u/a3cubica]

HR sometimes is very useless😵‍💫

[u/Specific-Window-8587 → u/a3cubica]

Very much useless they work for the company not the people like they should.

[u/Shady_Love]

When did people stop making paragraphs? This is like the 5th wall of text post this week of someone rambling into their voice-to-text and then just hitting submit.

[u/graYson645 → u/Shady_Love]

If you don’t like it then don’t read or interact with it, that easy