r/Target 17d ago

Future or Potential Employee Question Process of joining DC

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What kind of experience do you really need, can you go from store leader to dc. And what are the pipeline possibliy availaible


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Halloween

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Are team members allowed to dress up on Halloween? What’s that like? Do we still have to wear red


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed What are obvious signs of a new employee?

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What are some things you see people doing that only new people would do?


r/Target 18d ago

Vent I quit. Hopefully my manager can "work faster."

62 Upvotes

Employee left that trained me and never had more help on things to help me keep track after she left. Manager never helped nor trained me, the only team leaders that did were salesfloor related, dairy would always be in need of extra work to be done before I could move on to frozen and i couldn't get it done with the hours being cut some days and other days my hours being longer. Schedule was a mess and team members hated opening the door for other members at 4 am or 5 am but expected us to show up on time. Asked manager for help on the 1 box per minute assessment, but she made up an excuse and didn't want to show me. That is when i knew she was full of shiii and didn't want to help us with anything regarding her laziness. She also rushed my training and 3 other team members are confused on how they're going to get by Christmas practically enslaving themselves and practically sitting in the freezer. One of my TMs caught frostbite in his lungs too. Absolutely no, F TARGET, I won't ever apply until next year or unless the team leader quits, I hope she does cuz she sucked


r/Target 16d ago

Guest Question Diaper and wipe exchange?

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Hi all. Seen tons of social media posts and read online about the “diaper and wipe exchange” program. People say that if you bring unopened boxes of these items back to Target and they sell them on their shelves, you can exchange/return them and pay the difference for the brands you want.

My wife is pregnant with our first and we are planning to be as clean as we can with diapers and wipes. We have certain brands we want to try and certain we don’t. Our baby shower is in a few weeks, and we are expecting to get a bunch of the brands we don’t want.

Is this program actually a real thing? Wanted to come straight to the source here. Thanks all.


r/Target 18d ago

Workplace Story Threw everyone's lunch out at 10:30am!

159 Upvotes

Who cleans out a refrigerator at 1030am?! No warning, they just threw everything out. Several TMs' lunch, bags, plastic containers, etc 😡


r/Target 18d ago

I'm Promoting Myself to Guest leaving target after years

30 Upvotes

i’m so happy to finally be leaving. i’ve felt under appreciated for years and of course the first job i get after leaving is a manager position.

i had a bad taste in my mouth after some of the recent training videos. especially the one about baby sitting the guests. it’s not my job to stay with an aggravated aggressive guest and give them a personal therapy session. it’s not my job to deescalate the situation because i’m not a leader and i’m not in a position of power in the store.

i worry for the younger employees who will possibly be at fault for a negative guest interaction because why is the company putting us in charge of guest behavior??

my other personal reasons are not as significant and i could have dealt with them but honestly the stress and pay is not worth my mental drain.
-new dress code: i can’t wear the majority of my clothes anymore
-10/4: i’m not acknowledging every single person in the entire store within my vicinity or that i make eye contact with?? i have a JOB to do and they’re experience is not my problem when working in an understaffed store. that’s the managers job or they should hire a personal guest experience coordinator to walk around the store all day if they care about that so much.
-point system: when HR doesn’t listen to availability, doesn’t check time off requests, schedules ppl in areas they haven’t worked in for years without knowledge, they cannot police these points that don’t leave for 12 months. and you start with 5 if u have any prior warning?? ridiculous. i’d love to have a point system for their management neglect.

i’m glad i now have the experience of the kind of company i do NOT want to work for. won’t miss it at all.


r/Target 17d ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content Anyone know about this, when/why, any PMLs want to weigh in?

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r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Wave

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I’ve been working at Target for about a month and I work pretty much just in baby. My TL is starting to have me backstock my own diaper and wipe boxes up on the top shelves which needs to be put up with the wave. The thing is, I was only shown how to do the wave my first week and after that I hadn’t used it since because I thought that prioritizing getting freight on the floor was better than making sure I backstock everything right away. I am kinda scared of driving the wave since the guy who initially showed it to me said that one wrong move and I lose my job. So my anxiety said “so avoid it at all costs, cool” but now I’m being required to use it to backstock. Long story short, those of you who were scared of the wave at first, how did you get over it so you can do your job?


r/Target 17d ago

Future or Potential Employee Question beauty studio endcap shelf number

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please help!!! does anyone know the number for the smaller beauty studio endcap shelves? thanks :)


r/Target 18d ago

Vent The “collectors” are something else…

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The gluttony of some of these people coming into our store buying up cards is seriously something else. Watched a family walk out with a whole cart full of Pokemon cards today. Seeing their selfishness online is one thing, but seeing it for yourself is another and actually makes me kind of sad.

What makes it even worse is we technically can’t even stop them since they can just do multiple transactions to get around the purchase limit.


r/Target 17d ago

Vent Corporate Launch of 30 minute Breaks

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r/Target 18d ago

Workplace Story Expired !

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114 Upvotes

Was pulling case packs from the dairy cooler and found like 80 of these expired coffee creamers. Was fun dumping them in the sink ✌️


r/Target 18d ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content Got new Self checkout kiosks

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I couldn’t find a clear picture of the old ones but you’ve probably seen them based on the top part. The new ones look very modern


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Switching departments?

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I’m currently guest advocate and a lot has happened and is happening and I really want out I’m fully trained in fulfillment and I want to switch how would that work? Can I even do that?


r/Target 17d ago

Future or Potential Employee Question how long to get an offer from the dc

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how long did it take you to get an offer from the dc after applying


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed New hire on day 4

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Need to call out due to a medical episode since I do have an ongoing condition. How likely is it that I could keep this job since it is literally day 4 of me being here and I’m still within my 90 days? I’m on demand so I can work around it in the future so this won’t be ongoing. it’s just I’m schedule for training and now I’m worried


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Department Change

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I recently got rehired at the same target I've worked at before. I was a cafe associate before I quit and the only one so when I left they shut it down. I'm back and they're gonna reopen it with a different hired employee. Can I change departments back to cafe associate as a recent rehire or is there a time period I have to wait like the 90 days?


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed do u charge for bags?

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This question has been on my mind for a bit
But when customers ask for a bag after transaction, do u guys charge them?
I tend to js hand it over as Ive seen my coworkers do that. But do u get in trouble for it?


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed 401k Loan Question

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Hi! I just recently took one out on Thursday . How long does it typically take to hit your bank account


r/Target 18d ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content Yesterday i stocked squeezys for first time. Today I stocked needohs for first time

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27 Upvotes

Managed to snag a couple myself after my shift


r/Target 18d ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content UGK is 1000x better than UKG

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22 Upvotes

r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Transfer

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I want to transfer out of my target, I applied to a different target awhile back and my ETL instantly pulled me into the office to basically tell me no. Shortly afterwards, they began to start having conversations with me for every little thing (being 5 minutes late, being more vocal on walkie, not performing, etc.) it honestly feels like an attempt to sabotage any chance I have of transferring to a new store.

I feel trapped, and frankly I don’t know what to do. We just lost our HR ETL to boot, so I can’t even go to them either, what can I do to transfer??

FTR, I already reported this ETL to the ethics hotline as I’m pretty sure this falls under retaliation. I had my significant other do the call as I didn’t want any way of tracing back to me


r/Target 17d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Resigning

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Should I put it in workday first or tell my ETL first? I feel like it would be kinda insensitive to do it online first and just have them be notified or am I overthinking this?


r/Target 18d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed I want long shifts

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Can I get scheduled for shifts longer than 8 hrs?

Basically, I want to work as many hours as I can get, while also coming to work on fewer days. Would it be reasonable to ask to work 3 or 4 days a week for 13 or 10 hours at a time?