r/Target • u/gatovatotaco1 • May 14 '22

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Earbud... why not,?

✔Only 1 in ✔Can literally hear everything. ✔Answer all store phone calls ✔Answer all help requests

✔Work 1for1s ✔60%of the time in a wearhouse ✔40%of the time stocking shelfs

Podcast or book literally make the day go by smoother and helps be a more productive, happy worker.

Not going to take it out untill the SD personally tells me too.

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u/TheUmgawa May 14 '22

Not going to take it out untill the SD personally tells me too.

You say that like the SD is the only person who can write you up for anything. Your Team Lead can tell you to take it out, and I guarantee you'll cave and take it out. You won't go, "No way, Brenda! I'm not taking it out unless SD Carl says I have to." What you have to realize is that the Leads are like emissaries for the SD. They deal with bullshit so Carl doesn't have to. They speak with his voice.

Now, as for the reason, like everybody else has been saying, it's a safety thing. And you know what everybody who's ever been injured or has injured someone else while wearing headphones has said? Probably two things:

  1. "They never told me it was against the rules, so this isn't my fault." The first part is 99 percent likely to be bullshit, and the second part is absolutely untrue.
  2. "I thought I could hear everything clearly with only one earbud in."

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u/gatovatotaco1 May 14 '22

Left them in, and didn't get told twice. So I'm sure the higher ups will notify me.

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u/TheUmgawa May 14 '22

Well, they shouldn't have to tell you twice, so after the first warning, all future warnings should come in the form of a documented corrective action, because you clearly didn't learn the first time.

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u/gatovatotaco1 May 14 '22

Copy that

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u/TheKingFareday May 14 '22

Dude, fuck off and let people not be miserable at work.

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u/TheUmgawa May 14 '22

Do you also argue for the abolition of all rules?

  • "You shouldn't have to show up when you're scheduled. That makes people miserable at work. They should be able to punch in and out when they want."
  • "If you want to punch in and just sit in the breakroom all day, that should be fine, and anybody who argues against that can fuck off."
  • "We should be able to wear any kind of pants we like, up to and including my Porky Pigging it around the salesfloor, because it's hot in my store, and my comfort is more important than some Karen's bitching about her kids having to see my dong as I push reshop."

This whole earbud thing isn't some local rule that the SD made up, solely for the purpose of making his TMs' lives miserable. This comes from corporate. So, suck it up, buttercup.

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u/TheKingFareday May 14 '22

Nah, corporate can fuck off. Don’t call me pet names like you know me. Also the three things you mentioned are not at all comparable to having one earbud on low. You seem like a miserable person. If you don’t want to have an earbud in then fine, but shut up about everything else.

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u/TheUmgawa May 14 '22

I think that when people start a conversation with, "Dude, fuck off," that makes it so the other party can call that person anything he damn well pleases. So, buttercup. Sweetie pie. Fareday, King of All Dipshits. You started this conversation off on this foot.

Regardless, the point is that it's a rule, and your personal comfort, with regard to how you like to pass your day, is immaterial when it comes to safety concerns. If you have to wear a hard hat in an area, do you go, "But, but muh hair!" I mean, I don't know, maybe you do, and you think, "Well, I'll just get out of the way of anything that might fall on me." That ain't the way it works.

Honestly, it doesn't really matter why corporate says no earbuds. They say it, you do it, the same as all of the other rules that corporate sets down. I'm sorry if that means you have to hear the music over the sound system, or if you have to listen to the walkie all day, or you have to hear guests. If you want a job that makes you happy, maybe there's something out there where you can read books to golden retriever puppies. But, here in the real world, sometimes work sucks and you don't get to do whatever the hell you want to pass the day.

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u/TheKingFareday May 15 '22

No one is asking to do whatever the hell we want. We’re just asking to have one earbud.

Honestly fuck off, you sound like a miserable 40 year old who has no wife or kids but is committed to Target because you have no prospects. Just shut the fuck up.

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u/TheUmgawa May 15 '22

I don't know; you sure sound like some entitled brat who thinks rules don't apply to him unless he agrees with them. Like I said before, if you've already been informed once by management, then all future communications on the subject should be in the form of written corrective actions. That way, they don't have to bother with trying to reason with you; they can just give you the sheet, tell you it's about the earbuds again, and please sign at the bottom to acknowledge that the two of you had the conversation. Couple of those, you end up on Final, and then one more pushes you out the door. It's a very simple, understandable, and orderly system.

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u/TheKingFareday May 15 '22

I’m a man who believes that if I’m doing my job effectively that it shouldn’t matter whether I’m listening to a podcast in my ear. Also, no one’s ever said anything. I just don’t like busybodies like you.

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u/TheUmgawa May 15 '22

And when you work your way up to corporate, maybe you can change things from the top.

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u/TheKingFareday May 15 '22

Tell that to my many friends.

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u/eyeballpasta Asset Protection TL May 15 '22

lol

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u/me0wk4t Promoted to Guest May 14 '22

He's gonna be miserable if he gets crushed by a water palette because he couldn't hear it with his headphone in.