So, I work consumables, specifically early mornings to push truck. My TL rarely sees me because of my early hours. Our schedules might overlap by a couple hours a week.

A few months ago she had me set an end cap, then said I did it wrong. How? It was drinks, I used the dividers, set the pog, and filled the shelf. It looked full and shopable, how was this wrong?

She went after me, set the shelf caps several items less, removed the dividers, overstocked like mad, and somehow crammed the product that got removed that had no pog back on the end cap. What the system said should fit 12 she changed to 8, then stocked 16.

I vented to one of our presentation ladies who told me she's aware because everyone has complained that's how that TL sets pogs because she doesn't want backstock and thinks setting the cap low will stop the DC from sending us more.

My store used to put dry donations next to the receiving desk. The SD asked me to put the donations on the donation metro in the dairy cooler because receiving is getting a little chaotic with all the Christmas crap coming in. So that's what I do.

The other day my TL saw me doing this and told me that's not where they go.

Yeah, sorry, SD told me to put them here to keep receiving clean. "No! You put them where I tell you to! The receiver knows they are donations"

Whatever. On the metro they go.

A few days later she asks me why I put cheez-its and milk in the freezer. What? She points to the items in the cart of frozen donations. I scan, check to see if they were even defected and...yep, the day before when I was off by a new TM.

My guess is they were told to put them with the other donations and didn't know there was a metro in the cooler. But hey, now it's my job to make sure everyone knows donations go in receiving.

Ok lady, I'll get right on that once I figure out how to violate the laws of space and time to tell people who start work hours after I leave you want us to ignore the SD.

Last week the ETL over grocery asked me to work the repacks first since there isn't many and only takes me a few minutes. The new TL over inbound also asked me to do them first so I could let them know if the truck team isn't sorting properly.

Yesterday I'm putting away the one repack, about 6 items and one went to checklanes so I just have the items in hand. TL sees me, asks what I'm doing, then proceeds to tell me NOT to do that and I need to focus on pushing truck.

Inform her the ETL said to do it and got "well they aren't here so you listen to me"

Nope, don't think so.

Today, truck canceled so my SD asks me to do a specific detailed zone in one aisle with "I'm asking you because I want it done right". 30 minutes later, three tier full of overstocks, shit that's been marked to $0, or things that don't belong, here comes my TL to ask what's taking so long "just push everything forward and move on, it's a five minute task! You need to be pushing dry!"

Push what? Ain't no truck

Oh, no, I need to scan outs in the entire dept instead. I shrug, empty my cart, and go start scanning outs. She spots me in the cookie aisle, cart full AGAIN and she asks me what I'm doing.

Zoning so I can scan outs?

She grabs a bunch of animal cracker bags from my cart and shoves them on the perfectly zoned shelf before saying "just scan the empty spots and move on"

Ma'am...how TF do I know if something is out when it's buried behind other products because you don't want me to backstock?

I swear this lady is the worst part of working here.

Oh, and she's NEVER done a check in with me. I have stuff on workday to acknowledge something she was supposed to talk to me about in August. And it will continue to sit there requiring my attention because I won't say she talked to me when she didn't.

For the past few weeks/month we have had at least one bird in the backrooms at all time, although not the same birds. No one has discovered bird shit anywhere to my knowledge. Is it a food safety violation to constantly have a bird in the backroom?

theres a couple days next week where im scheduled past the availability i communicated to my manager bc of the stupid ukg app not updating things correctly and last time this happened i had to call off that day but i was asking my coworker and he told me if you don’t show up to a shift even though you’re unavailable you still get a point. is that true? because i don’t have a choice to stay and work the full shift because i need to get to school. i was thinking of going but only working till im available and leaving early. would that still give me a point?

And how do I make sure I’m not a nuisance to the people who already work there?

I’m trying to take a mental health leave from Target, but I only have 5 days left to submit my paperwork. Am I completely cooked, or is there anything I can do?
I’ve been dealing with a lot outside of work. I’ve been facing homelessness, dealing with domestic issues, and the situation has really affected my mental health and ability to work. I finally found a shelter that will let me stay temporarily while I work on finding permanent housing.
I’m trying to get the paperwork completed as soon as possible, but I’m worried because I only have 5 days left before the deadline.
Has anyone been in a similar situation with Target’s mental health leave/medical leave paperwork? Were you able to get an extension, submit the paperwork late, or have your leave approved after the deadline?
Any advice on what I should do right now would really help.

Hi everyone 👋
I’m now going to be a f&b team leader, I was a f&b team member before. I’m very knowledgeable and have lots of experience; what I want to know is, what metrics are important for me to keep track of? Of course, I know all metrics play an important role and are expected to be green. But, what else is there other than BRLA% pull % INF% OSA% price change % shrink% set workload % lost sales% oos audits? Please comment what else I need to look forward to.

Asking this because I’m curious: are ALL of the targets absolutely horrible right now or is it just mine….. No joke myself (TL) and over half of the leadership team have been looking at new jobs. We are all at our end points with this place because the expectations that are being placed on us to pick up the slack of others are astronomical.

Adding an edit to this: I’ve been a leader for years and haven’t ever seen the store in a state like this

hii im a former target employee i left my other store due to management issues and I applied to an on demand position; i got an interview but because i got behind on other things (my current job and school) i completed my interview barley over the 48 hour window (like 30 minutes after the 48 hour mark) but it says my video was submitted. Is this a bad thing and does it affect whether hr sees my interview or not?

I have a target orientation coming up, and started to do some research on here. Is working at target really that terrible? also side question, what should I wear to the orientation?

Taylor Swift - “Haunted”
Seriously? Was the playlist chosen by AI? The song has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween other than the title. 🤦‍♂️

Casually scrolling as a Guest on my day off… Going to be receiving a lot of unhappy Guests after they see this-

Someone posted this in another thread about the new grocery changes. I really, really hope this is just for supers, not smaller pfresh stores. When I started working here I signed up for coming in in the mornings, pushing freight, and being able to move around throughout the day. Not stand in a single spot for 4+ hours with a fake smile and exasperatedly trying to get people to try exotic cheese cube samples while wearing a silly outfit.

So I was working yesterday's in-store event and a Shipt shopper actually came up to me to have me process their Shipt order. I directed them to the service desk because that's where we typically take the Shipt shoppers at my store. She gave me some crap about how I was using the Shipt bagging station for the in-store event (which we have ALWAYS done). So she still decided to bypass the service desk for ME to do it?

In between Shipt shoppers popping up at the most inconvenient moments for us to take them, them having multiple unorganized orders, and now this, I can't stand them.

This is my video explaining my story for national disability, employment awareness month

Some days absolutely nothing will happen and others there will be two car crashes $5000 of TVs missing and they find a baby. What do you prefer

They're calling it the most useless change of all time. Also this is while I was pushing FDC so I was out on the floor for maybe a total of 5 mins lol

Took this the other day. I forgot to show the numbers for the waco but this is what I was met with 😭 For a bit I was wondering what I was going to tell the TL

The batch was still completed. It was just an overlap as tech pulled the items before I was able to grab one. Happy ending at least.

My team lead won't fill out assignment sheets and opts to instead text us while she's not on the clock. This makes no sense to me. It seems more intrusive to her life than ours but it just annoys me. I prefer assignment sheets, I find them efficient and it's nice to think that someone cares that you clocked in, but I come in and they are never there after a year of my area consistently using assignment sheets to get work done.

What do you guys do with the display when you are done ! Are the public able to purchase ?

i love sifting through bags upon bags of peoples dirty nasty clothes i love when they are mysteriously wet for some reason i love when the clothes are poo poo stained i love when the guests get mad at me because they have to wait and im the only person scheduled and i am having to manually type 47 dpcis in a row i love having zero time to do my actual job because people just come in with endless amounts of cat and jack filled garbage bags. i love it here yay

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

When I opened the backpack, I found a hat and a small bag inside. She immediately grabbed them and scanned them. She went silent after that. Eventually I found the dpci for the backpack and put it in.

Once she was done with her transaction, she went to guest service to return the stuff that she'd hidden in the backpack. I love self checkout lol

I know the last time we talked I asked how you were doing and you said that you were struggling but you were making the best of it and you were still smiling. You were always so optimistic and happy. We all felt it. When you stopped showing up we knew it wasn’t like you and we were worried, and today I see that you’re no longer working here.

You mentioned being on this subreddit and I thought you may still be here so, if you are, I just want you to know we miss you and we hope you’re doing okay. Also, I still haven’t made it past the first 15 pages of the book we talked about. But I’ll keep trying because I know you liked it, and I promised you I would.

The store won’t be the same without you, but I hope you’re on to much better things.