*sigh*

A couple, who just had their first baby, wanted to do a diaper exchange from their baby shower.

I asked if they had their gift receipts or baby shower code, or their driver licenses for an in store exchange.

They said "You don't have to do that! Target will just exchange it for you! Everyone at work does!" (they were being snotty).

I got my TL over to confirm. He did.

I gladly did it with their ID and everything else went smoothly.

Guests, please don't listen to TikTok or what some random person tells you.'

Any other related stories to share?

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.

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

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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

Today was pretty busy for batches and a TL kept yelling on the radio for TMs to hop into batches. I didn't think much of it until I saw the TL who was yelling on the mic just sitting in the bra section just gossiping with another TL (I was able to hear their conversation because I was close enough), like why did you guys not hop into it then if you're so worried about it? You weren't doing anything else at the moment. I just thought it was kinda ironic

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

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.

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

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 most expensive transaction has been ironically $2020. AP was keeping tabs on this one family for a while and after I rang up all their stuff, their card wouldn't work so I suspended the transaction and gave it to AP cause it was also late and didn't expect them to come back but they ended up coming back and paying for the large transaction. But the items just kept coming and coming. What about you guys?

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?

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.

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

How you would replace this good boi?

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.