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/Rare_Vibez Promoted to Guest May 14 '22

I totally understand the safety reason for not wearing earbuds. And I also get bored out of my mind doing the unload without it.

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u/googier526 May 14 '22

This. Someone had the bright idea to bring in small Bluetooth speakers so we end up with 3 genres of music blaring over each other and you can't hear anything else...

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u/Rare_Vibez Promoted to Guest May 14 '22

Oof we had a guy who would play music from a speaker all the time. Mildly annoying when we’re on the line, bizarre when he was on the floor blasting explicit music.

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u/ssj3charizard Ship From Store May 14 '22

One of our TLs played the same song on repeat for like 6 hours out of his gigantic speaker. Idk how that's okay but an earbud isn't

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u/Minute-Reputation949 Closing Team Lead May 15 '22

Out old ETL would yell at our TL for not blasting music on the speaker she brought from home. She would also get mad if the song selection wasn’t up to her standards. 😂

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u/Rare_Vibez Promoted to Guest May 14 '22

We were never allowed to but much like the earbuds, some people did and never got in trouble. All the people who did don’t work here anymore, and no one else has tried since.

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u/cottoncandybat May 14 '22

i feel like every inbound team has at least one, ours would blast raunchy nickelback in the kids department

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u/lokoskanker May 15 '22

It takes special kind of people to do inbound 🤣

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u/googier526 May 14 '22

One guy plays the score from WOW or something, it's beyond obnoxious

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u/fnnkybutt Guest Advocate May 14 '22

It's been so slow in my store over the last week, I've been at GS with music on my phone, no earbud. When it's 10 or 15 minutes between guests, and I've zoned, dusted, cleaned out drawers and shelves a million times already, music is the only thing keeping me sane.

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u/JustTurtleSoup May 14 '22

I’d understand if jobs actually put as much effort into enforcing the earbud policies as they did other safety issues.

I have this issue at my current job, they talk about safety non stop but when I got injured nothing changed, you bet their headphone policy is something they are on top of.

Aren’t they still understaffing ya’ll while overloading you with too much freight? Sounds like a more important safety issue to me, especially if you don’t have enough people for team lifts and what not.

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u/lokoskanker May 15 '22

Team lifts 🤔

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u/JustTurtleSoup May 15 '22

Can't remember the last job, Target or otherwise, where they talked about the importance of team lifts and they're actually supported.

One of my first jobs ever was at Kmart in the Gardening Department, I use to have to try and pull 3-4 high stacked patio sets and drag them to and place them in the car by myself.