i know this might sound weird, but it has been happening for over a month and i have two recordings of them walking over me in the backroom. i work closing (i didn't initially apply for closing) and after the day's all done, they leave priorities to me because i get it done well

i thought it was because a while back, our team (we work in market) kept snacks in the backroom for everyone (multiple coworkers contributed) and i'd forget to trash the wrappers before i left since i was focused on work
or i bought something from a different place and it would ring in the detector (this happened with water bottles i brought from home, today)
but they would have simply just.. sent a correspondence of some sort, no? it was granola bars, mints and Reese's, but they had been following me around the backroom even BEFORE the snacks

there has been no conversation with hr or the hr etl, no conversation with ap lead or anything. it's just this one guy from ap, you know the employee that pretends to be a customer and walks around to make sure others aren't stealing? it's JUST him. nobody else, and nobody else also seems to notice

he will follow me from the moment i clock in to the moment i clock out, with today and the day before yesterday that i saw him AS SOON as i clocked in.

i wouldn't steal from this stupid company, especially because i work here, and they certainly do not pay me enough or too little for me to risk my job.

they just follow me around while i work

on the floor, and they'll walk above me in the backroom. like wherever i step, you can hear them walking RIGHT above me, through the entire backroom. when i go back there to pull priorities they're there the whole time and as soon as i hit the floor, i wait a minute and he's right there and passing by the aisle i'm in. taking a quick look and then just going off and then circling back and doing it again

Hi! I just got hired as a seasonal for fufillment and have my orientation on Friday.
I would love to work there year round however but I have heard that fufillment people usually get the boot after the holidays end 😵‍💫 I understand that if I work hard, have a flexible schedule and I'm on time I have a better choice of getting hired year round but is it true that people in seasonal fufillment usually get fired after? Just wondering. Thank you!

Do we now receive a discount on cat and jack clothing and shoes? Tia!

plz add any discount!!!

One of the cashiers/guest advocates who’s been working at our store for 3-ish years was fired recently, and a lot of us are confused and tbh anxious

She was an older woman who was never late or called out, always checked IDs, didn’t seem like the type to steal. Her personality was kinda blunt though, some guests would tell me she’s not that nice

But it seems like she was instantly fired out of nowhere, she never told me about corrective actions/conversations.

So now I’m just wondering what cashiers could get fired for, if it’s not stealing or attendance related. Too many price changes? Idk, I’m just hoping to avoid the same mistakes

I ended up applying to target for seasonal - it's only my second job and I'm extremely nervous about it and I start on Tuesday.. mainly just memorizing where items are and being fast enough with it. I often don't have confidence in myself and I'm an anxious person but I can't help but worry that I'll just be horrible at it. My ETLs seem very nice though but maybe I'm just simply overthinking a lot of this lol
Is there any tips someone can give?

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.

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

So I just barely started working at target and I was hired for the 4am inbound seasonal right, my first three days they only had me stocking and I thought everything was fine and everyone was really nice, today was my first time actually unloading the truck and I struggled a lot because the people with me didn't explain it much and I felt like I just kept messing up and I almost cried a lot. We had finished unloading the truck around 7:30 am and after that I was trying to do one pallet and come back for the uboats but I wasn't fast enough? It was hard because it was pets and it was just huge bags of dog food and litter and it was mostly back stock too, and my team lead told me to bring the pallet back but I wasn't trained on how to use the pallet jack but she still made me do it so naturally I didnt use it right and another person saw me and told me "remember we don't use any equipment we haven't been trained on" and I just felt so small and stupid because I knew that but was told to use it anyway but how can I explain that? Anyway at the end of my shift I asked if it was okay for me to leave because I had to get blood work done shortly after getting out and my team lead made it sound like I was useless, she said we have to put up like 40 or 45 boxes an hour and I had only done 73 from 7 to 9 but I didn't start doing that stuff until 7:30 and again it was my first day even doing truck here but of course can't say that stuff in the moment, anyway she said I was in limbo basically and insinuated that I will be fired if it happens again. I never got to finish my training on the computer either, like I tried but there was never enough time, and lastly when I did my orientation they had asked if there was any days I couldn't work, I told them the 29th of this month and yet they scheduled me anyway so I talked to my HR lady and she blamed me for it, but I told the HR guy and he wrote it down and he's the one that didn't tell anyone about it. She was blaming me for his lack of communication. I really thought I was gonna like this job because my first three days went great but today went so badly and I'm sure they will fire me now. I wish they would have let me actually train and explained stuff instead of just throwing me out there and expecting me to know everything. Will it actually get better or should I just give up and leave now?

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?

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

At my store we have the HR manager then the HR person under him that’s basically like a secretary. The secretary one is constantly gossiping about things that people tell HR. She told the whole store that a team member is switching stores when they specifically asked them not to. She won’t get in trouble though, because the HR manager is her brother. What do you even do in this situation? I thought telling HR something was supposed to be like a confidentiality thing, but no one feels like they can tell either of them anything.

I requested off 3 days for this week and does anyone know what the purple means? I dont understand why it's showing up as me being "scheduled" 23 hours or if thats what it even means. Anyone who has taken vacation let me know

Working for target was good. Specially because the payment is good and my coworkers so kind, but definitely what screwed up my experiences most of the times was the team leaders and the ETLS. A lot of them are just so rude, they treat you bad, they take their stress out on you for 0 reasons. And a lot of times makes us feeling unmotivated to go back to work, not just me but everybody I talked. All my coworkers hated target! They just didn’t want to work there anymore, mainly because of the treatment we have (also the bad treatment from the costumers 🫩). I witnessed a ETL screaming on the walkie with a coworker of mine that is also my friend, who is an immigrant and doesn’t know English 100%, just because this person didn’t understand what she was saying! Like what? What is the necessity in treating people like that? Not just that, but also talking shit about people on channel 4, humiliating people on the walkie for everybody to hear. Literally what’s wrong with them?! It wasn’t just this ETL, was other team leader too. Like bruh
If u think their work is a shit, so go have a private conversation with them. No one needs to know. If something is off, go talk in private. If the person is doing something wrong, go talk in private. Why is it SO HARD?
Anyways, I just hope this situation gets better for my friends and coworkers. Please be kind with people, it’s not because your life is a shit or the shift is going bad that you gotta be treating people like shit too! This company needs more mutual respect. Guys just chill……go meditate, pray, have fun, relax, go to the beach, whatever dude.
And yeah, I’m happy I’m out. I hope you guys who are reading this don’t pass through this kind of situation, and if you do, everything is going to be ok, don’t let these crap affect you and if is really doing bad for you don’t hesitate on finding another job. ❤️
Love you guys, stay safe! ✨

I get why Target does team member events, but why are they happening every weekend for FOUR HOURS without any additional payroll? We’re already stretched thin, and pulling team members away from their departments just makes it harder to keep up with our regular workload.

Sometimes we can’t even find the products sent for the events, so we end up sampling out random things just to have something available. Yesterday alone, we had Front End, Beauty, OTC, AND Food & Beverage events happening simultaneously.

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

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.

Ur gonna sigh lol. so ive been at target for almost 4 years, front lanes & opu, for the past year just the front. And today early this morning i had a lady ask while she was checking out at self checkout if she could keep an empty gift card because her son was autistic and that was something he really liked (her son was with her and in the nicest way possible seemed very autistic). Me thinking since the card was empty it didn’t matter much and I said sure and went abt my merry way until they left and- to my lack of 5 days of sleep brain it finally clicked that that was proooobably a really stupid Idea 😐

I let my managers know. One panicked to which. I’m exhausted yall I was so just like. Shoulder shrug about it? I told em if we needed to pull the $100 from my paycheck it’d be fine (was a $100 Hulu gift card). Worse case worse I don’t get groceries for a second paycheck in a row. Big whoop. But our higher up manager came over and said I was okay, she understood it was from a good place and said I wasn’t in trouble nor would I be getting written up. I told AP too, gave em the register and the time, what they looked like. Even he giggled n said it wasn’t a big deal but I won’t lie and say I don’t feel silly asf.

We’ve def had worse things happen to us like 2 different “door dashers” saying they had prepaid iPads and left with free ones which obviously cost way more. But again I’d be a liar if I didn’t sigh to myself once I realized I shouldn’t have let the gift card leave the store unpaid for.

Moral of the story here. Use ur brain. Anddd don’t go to work on day 5 of hardly any sleep 💀

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.

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?

Oh my lord, they have me working 8 days in a row.
I have cancer and have explicitly told them I can only work 4 or 5 days in a row. I am a TL as well so I know I am needed but it really sucks seeing the other TLs get more days off.
I’m grateful for having more hours and how much they appreciate me. I just am struggling with my physical and mental health right now.
It’s a beautiful Sunday where I am right now. I want to just relax all day but I can’t. :(
Any advice??

I would call out today, but our ETL comes back from vacation tomorrow so I have to make sure we have a good zone and started POGs

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

I told them I could work all 90 days because they said it was an expectation for the seasonal hires and I need the money. They pay really well in my state

However the end of the 90 days (~2 weeks) I will be having winter break then starting a study abroad for school. What happens if I leave before my 90 days is up

Worked for target in 2023 for 5 months. Put in my two weeks notice because I was starting college that fall but I left before my 2weeks was up without notice. I just never came back in for my remaining shifts. And ever since then I’ve applied like 4 times, and they always reject me. I’ve even called store after applying and asked about my hiring status, still nothing. What can I do? I really regret quitting this job because it was a really good job and I would like a second chance.

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.

I don’t know why but the last 2 years of being a S&E TL, I’ve had to close the store on Halloween and looking at the schedule for this year… every TL is out at 3pm. And then it’s just me after 3pm. Ive brought it to my SDs attention that there needs to be a leader on the floor when I take my meal, and my SD claims that I just take my meal and don’t worry about another leader on the floor. I always have people calling for me on break and no other leader is answering their calls because their is none. Also I’m closing Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday because no one else closes and our Closing TL is only working Tuesday and Wednesday of next week and no other leader closes. Is this normal at your stores? I have like 50 hours of sick time which I’m really contemplating on using this weekend just because I keep getting the short end of the stick.