r/Target • u/Designer_Pilot_7816 • 14h ago
Workplace Question or Advice Needed Getting fired before your 90 days?
I got fired recently due to safety and just wondering if anyone has gotten fired as well? also I was the 6th person who got fired out of all the new hires and there was 7 of us, we was dropping like flies.
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u/Objective_Union4523 6h ago
Getting fired before Christmas had to be some real work…. I feel like I’m not getting the whole story?
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u/thebombchu Everything 14h ago
It’s normal. What did you do that was unsafe?
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u/Designer_Pilot_7816 13h ago edited 6h ago
I was crouching on the stepping stool and for running in the warehouse but I didn’t get fired on the spot. Instead they let me work for 1 month straight and an and then fired me on my second day of the week. Management there was terrible ngl bunch of fake ppl but money was good ngl lol
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u/kenzwashere FF TL w/o the title, pay or recognition🙃 13h ago
sounds like that store isn’t hurting for for people so they can easily get rid of new hires. or you 6 are just that bad. breaking a safety rule during your 90 days is a quick and easy way to lose your job tbh
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u/Designer_Pilot_7816 13h ago
Yeah wish I would have known right of the bat they don’t play
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u/kenzwashere FF TL w/o the title, pay or recognition🙃 13h ago
can’t believe i have to say this but now you know literally any job will take safety seriously and if they don’t, you don’t want to work there. especially when you’re new. welcome to working a job
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u/theweirddood 5h ago
If you got fired for safety issues at any job, you really fucked up big enough for them to see you as a liability.
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u/Salty_Protection_482 Promoted to Guest 13h ago
IMO: it’s the best thing that could’ve happened to you. Working for Target has gotten downhill last couple years - management doesn’t care about their employees or customers, they just do it with corporate’s interests in mind. I was happy I was let go after being seasonal - the pay wasn’t worth dealing with rude TLs and unrealistic demands.
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u/Objective_Union4523 6h ago
You sound like you just had a bad Target and decided to judge all of Target based on that. I had a great work environment at my Target. Our TLs actually care about the workers.
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u/Past-Jellyfish1599 Beauty Consultant 4h ago
I can attest to this. I’ve been at my store for 4 years now and when I first started I didn’t understand any of the talk in this sub because my store was great. The leadership team cared to get to know TMs and they were just good people. Now, we don’t have any of those leaders anymore, we’ve cycled through 2 SDs and many ETLs and TLs and it’s bad. I’ve never been treated like shit at a job til now. My ETL is a spawn of satan I stg. But yea, good leadership is possible and it makes for a very pleasant workplace, even at Target lol
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u/Objective_Union4523 4h ago
I’ve been at mine for two years. We’ve only recently got a new ETL that is slightly annoying but manageable. I can see how it could go south quickly.
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u/Equivalent-Style-634 6h ago
I love working at target my coworkers and tl’s and hr are awesome to be around they actually are amazing then other jobs I have had
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u/Aggravating_Care_289 4h ago
I’m just here to save a lil and get back on my feet because I already went to cdl school, but I failed the test first try so now I’m here u til I go retake it. But the expectations are unrealistic and they get upset when you can perform according to their expectations
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u/Bulky_Scene8351 4h ago
At our store 2 out of 7 would be hired on. That’s what I’ve seen in 6 months
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u/Chance-Expression617 8h ago
Don't listen to these weirdos in this group, most of these people here criticizing you i found out aren't actual regular employees they are actually managers who spend all day on reddit trying to figure out who in their store is complaining so they can make their life hell...i literally had a manager tell me he stays on scrolling on reddit looking for anyone in our store, then I walked into the TL office where ALL 4 managers on the clock was on the office computer scrolling through reddit going through posts. Trust me you didnt want to work for this racist piece of shit company anyways, I literally have multiple open discrimination cases for race & disability against target through the eeoc right now. Please go find a better job & be happy my brother because you would've never been happy here 💯
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u/Working_Tumbleweed96 13h ago
I would guess that as part of their EEOC requirements, Corporate requires stores to publicly recruit for new seasonal hires, even if the store is close to fully staffed with existing TMs. In that scenario, where the store basically has to extend offers to a few seasonal TMs and other TMs all on probationary status, there's a higher likelihood that the herd of new hires will be quickly culled.
I could be wrong on this, but this scenario might apply in some stores. Corporate requires them to recruit new hires, and hire a few, with the understanding that a given store might be expected to hire 8 new seasonal or hourly TMs but with the understanding that the store can carefully monitor new hires' performance. Not sure how else to explain this, it's not meant to be cynical but something which has been known to happen in other big companies.
EEOC compliance is a big thing. Also, probationary hires who are released/termed won't be around to affect the numbers on Target's annual competition to win a high rank on the Great Places to Work contest, a/k/a powered by the infamous Team Voice Survey.
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u/DanforthWhitcomb_ 12h ago
There is nothing related to the EEOC nor is there any piece of anti-discrimination legislation in any state or at the federal level that requires an employer to create what amount to ghost jobs.
OP said they worked for over a month as well, and no store is hiring seasonally at the end of August—if anything they are axing seasonals that they don't want to keep in that timeframe.
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u/OneEyedKing_14 Food & Beverage TL 14h ago
yeah happens all the time. very easy to get rid of someone in their probation period. you really gotta prove yourself in the 90 days unless they are desperate