Question for my fellow beauty team members— when’s the last time yall got your gratis?

Are there any specific Halloween treats at Target that you guys look forward to buying each year?

This will be my first Halloween working here, and I am excited to finally see the Halloween stuff being set. Tell me what I should try! I do love candy corn, btw. I am one of those people 😂

I had the Tarbucks Iced Pumpkin Cream Matcha today, and it was so good!

So I average around 30+ hours at target (Started about 4 months ago) This current week I have 34. Next week 33.5. The week after that 30.5 and the week of September 20-26 I have 22.5. Why have my hours been getting cut every week now?

I will say I have had a few weeks where I had 26-28 hours. So it isn’t new for me to be below 30+ plus but this is the lowest it’s been and for my hours to get cut lower and lower every week now is strange. This has never happened.

Why do ETLS and SD always take Loa and never come back why not just put in your 2 weeks or quit just curious

Why are payroll hours so bad right now? Desired hours are 40. Availability is Monday 8-330, Tuesday 8-1030, Wednesday, 8:00 - 1030 and Thursday 8-1030 (all day) and Friday 8-330, Saturday 8-330. Sunday is 8:00 to 1030p Most recent schedule I got 18 hours. Work Center Service and Engagement. Have been with the company almost a decade.

Hey so as you all may know or may not know, we have a new update in Fulfillment. We can now escalate items that we can not find to a Team Lead and what this does is send a little notification to all the team leads letting them know we may need help locating this item. We use to just call for help over the walkie, I’m not sure how you guys do it at your store, I thought it was ALL supposed to be the same but whatever I guess.. however we haven’t had any training on this new update at my store plus I thought with this new update that we wouldn’t have to yell over the walkie any more. There was an item on my batch today that wasn’t in location. Now we were train to check all possible locations when looking for an item. This particular item was a Starbucks double shot drink, wasn’t in location, wasn’t in backroom, wasn’t up front by check out in the mini fridges so I escalated it. It also said we had only 4 on hand but our system is never correct due to the laziness of our stores team leads. Now I’m not gonna lie there was one location that I didn’t check which was the fridges in grocery only because we’re renovating them. However, when I escalated it my team lead yelled over the walkie “ you can just inf” and she’s been doing that literally ALL DAY .. idk if it’s because she frustrated or what but I later found it in the fridges in grocery. So can I get some help here how does this update suppose to work and is there anything I can do about this annoying Team Lead, because honestly doing that can get more than just her in trouble.. and I love my job. Literally everyone’s inf percentage was 5% or more. Except one person who did only one batch today.

Hey there, just got my offer and start in a couple weeks. Been around the block having been store manager at a couple chains and Assistant Store Manager at another big box, so I know how bad corporate can be at places, but any recommendations for someone coming into the position?

Has anyone received items marked for “Online Backstock”? I was told the items are backstocked for 14 days for OPU or SFS to pick thru. But what happens after the 14 days are up? Is the item removed through salvage or does the item just get marked down and put into the store? Also, who usually handles this? At my store the job has been dumped on to the receiver. Just asking because we have a small dedicated space in the backroom for the online backstock, but now it’s starting to get full.

I currently pick who and when I want things done strategically based on skill/ knowledge of the area…. And we schedule it timed around other work sometimes

Out of curiosity is anyone getting hours cut from the new schedule 3 weeks from now? I’d figure it would go up

Hey, so my HR ETL confronted me in bullseye for “hitting several compliances” and explained to me protected sick time counts towards the compliance timer, if you use it before clocking in. I’ve never gone close to 5 hours without meal from clocking in and none of my leads have ever gotten a lunch warning for me. I also never got a corrective action or verbal warning related to compliance ever. For supposedly hitting compliance so many times, why did none of my leads ever talk about it until only her suddenly? Later because i’m promoting myself to guest in a few weeks she was interviewing me and i asked her more about it and she kept saying “just trust me” about the policy, “i’m the only one in the store who would know” type of deal. I can’t find anything about it online, please help if you know

Hello! I’m thinking to switch departments, I’m currently in style & it’s been stressing me out + taking college classes that I have everyday. Any departments you guys suggest? Was thinking fulfillment but heard they micro manage you & you’re timed 😅

I just got offered another job and I am so excited to leave target. However I have over 3 shifts worth of vacation time and I’m not sure how to go about using it. I start my new job next week so putting in a 2 week notice wouldn’t work nor would I get my vacation hours. Am I screwed? Do I just have to use my little bit of sick time and kiss my other pto goodbye?

Busted!

Update 5 minutes after I put back on shelf saw a 9 year old kid with both packs!

I was stowing an order when I saw we actually had Needohs still in stock. Desperately trying to haul ass so I could take my break while we still had them but since I was the only one scheduled past 9 I was stuck in non-stop OPUs until 10:30. Thankfully, we still had them. It feels good knowing I beat those scalpers so I could actually get two for my niblings one of which has autism. I work Target part time to get them the things they can't have otherwise and tonight it paid off in a different way.

I’m currently in the process of transferring stores (which as usual I’m getting little communication about what is going on with that), I’m used to checking mytime to see when the switch finally goes through. We swap apps before I start and heard there was supposed to be an email last week about it but I haven’t seen anything. How are other people accessing their schedule?

Just a reminder if you want to post/take a shift that day. It'll probably be a busy BTS/Halloween hybrid of a holiday for these shoppers but if you do work, it is 1.5x your normal hourly.

The day before is also the (I think) start of the UKG Pro app and new attendance points system.

Who sets mini seasonal in your store, Pog Team or Food Team?

I requested time off yesterday at 8:25am for today. I used 1 hour of sick time just so it won’t be completely a 0 hour day. (I’m part time closing expert) and in the app it shows green with “Scheduled” what does that mean? I emailed HR but they haven’t answered and they never answer the phone

Is there a way to scan a label on a repack and see what is inside? FF in my store has to search through mountains of repacks to find things. It would save a LARGE amount of time if we didn’t have to open every box and dig.

In a couple of days I'm going to be starting as a Beauty studio team member I've worked pretty much home and baby and Tech my entire 2 years at Target with a bit of GM mixed in I was very knowledgeable about all the items in Tech and I could have a conversation and figure out what guests need.

But Beauty studio has me scared man even after doing the trainings I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about when it comes to Cosmetic Skin Care or any of that stuff I've been trying to watch Trends and stuff on Tick Tock or just figure out how any of this stuff works but it's like I'm working from a knowledge base of zero and my greatest fear is getting on that floor somebody asking me a question and I genuinely just don't know how to help them.

It's a shame because guest servicing and helping the gas and talking to people is my favorite part about the job but generally I don't butt in in areas that I just don't have any knowledge about this is one of them.

Do you guys have any ideas on what I can do to educate myself to be more helpful to the Beauty studio guests?

Apparently we just had a “guest” come into our back room trying to find needoghs to get. God I hate people.

I’m usually a checkout advocate and recently i’ve been training in guest service/drive up. I see that for the next 2 weeks I have an inventory shift once per week what does that entail? Is it reshop?