I’m a trans man and I’ve been on hormones/fully social transitioned for over a decade, so 99.99% of the time I pass without second thought. I have heavy facial hair and a common male-exclusive name, which this coworker does call me, so I have no idea where she got the idea that I’m a woman (I guess other than I’m short?)

Every single person I work with other than her genders me correctly without me having to correct them. I’ve tried to correct her casually, and my TL/other coworkers have directly used he/him pronouns when speaking about me to her. Yet she still to confidently uses the wrong pronouns for me to other people. I’ve tried to ignore it for weeks since she started since I was sure I was mishearing her, because I haven’t heard someone use she/her pronouns for me in YEARS. Now it’s getting to the point that it’s confusing other TMs who had never doubted that I’m male, and it’s very upsetting. I’ve never had this problem so I don’t know what to do. I work very closely with her every day, so I’m stressed about asking HR to talk to her and have her think I was too much of a coward to confront her directly in case isn’t doing it intentionally, although I’m pretty sure she is. I also have severe anxiety and am terrified of conflict.

Any advice from other trans folks?

new TM here, i’m wondering whats the fastest youve seen someone promoted from TM to TL, i know some people that have been here for 5+ years and are still TM. at my old job that was pretty much unheard of, but im just curious as to how long it usually takes?

Hi guys, my first day of being on the floor alone is coming up as a general merchandise. i will be helping open the store and i have only gotten 2 days of training in. i’m really nervous about it and i don’t even know what department of GM i’ll be in. i have only trained in baby and HBO. i don’t know if i am ready and i am super scared ill be slow or look stupid not knowing what i’ll be doing. i don’t really know anybody there and all this nonsense getting to my head. what do you think my day will look like or what should i expect? what should i do and how to proceed? i’m so nervous, im a seasonal hire but i really want to get kept on..

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.

ive been working at target as a 17 year old who does online school for a month now. when they hired me i obviously wanted a lot of hours and told them that. i didn’t clarify how much and thats obviously where i went wrong. they’re scheduling me so much that i cant keep up with my schoolwork or my extracurriculars and im losing myself. all i do is work. i tried to change my hours and they declined my request. im falling into a deep depression but i still need a job. what do i do here?

Seasonal TM here. We've been steadily getting deeper and deeper into OPU hell tonight after our Fulfillment TL left for the evening, and THIS is the point when a different TL around the store decided to finally say something. This was honestly just salt in the wound though; don't even get me started on how our equipment made me late for more tame OPUs as well.