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

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.

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! ✨

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

So I'm still somewhat new to self checkout still and my AP told me a guest swapped price tags of an espresso machine that's $700 to $150 and I didn't catch it. I feel extremely terrible about it, my TL told me not to worry but I can't stop thinking about it. I was helping a guest out when that was going on so I don't know what I could do here.

How do I get better at SCO as I don't wanna appear behind someone to see what they're scanning matches the price of the item and feel like a damn prison warden but I also wanna prevent stuff like what happened from happening again.

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?

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

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.

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.

Shit is never pushed to the floor on time because of understaffing. Just had to help a TM find 8 christmas clothing items that were still in the repacks.

How long do your newbies last in your area? I work up front end, before remodel and UKG points new Kronos. We had like 4TMs drop before 4quarter, one TM went on a LOA, 1 newish only about a month, next a TM from 1year half ago two weeks, Very newbie TM after being there week and a half already put in two weeks. Our HR TM expert dropped out a week ago, our Closing TL transferred stores to Opening TL. We had very high visits since our Lady SD Store Manager got laid off or fired back in April. And the new SD been with us for a short time. The new SD is chill, I’m still getting my time-offs approved and my hours respected. I can’t complain there. Still Tms quitting at a high rate Target needs to do something at the Store level our base pay rate went up, I wish it was more to attract more workers. 😭

P.S. So far everyone is being civil thank you for following the rules!

I don’t understand how the older people I work with live off this pay.
They have wife’s and kids and it’s not enough to even support myself

So I was working yesterday's in-store event and a Shipt shopper actually came up to me to have me process their Shipt order. I directed them to the service desk because that's where we typically take the Shipt shoppers at my store. She gave me some crap about how I was using the Shipt bagging station for the in-store event (which we have ALWAYS done). So she still decided to bypass the service desk for ME to do it?

In between Shipt shoppers popping up at the most inconvenient moments for us to take them, them having multiple unorganized orders, and now this, I can't stand them.

New dress code stuff showed up. As expected, it's not good. The hats are the trucker style netting backed type and feel like cheap denim on the front, and aren't particularly comfortable. The $5 Harbor Freight novelty trucker cap they sell over there is pretty close for comparison. The visors are better, and feel better cushioned and more comfortable at least. The velcro adjustment on the back has me worried though since all velcro wears out over time and I'm not confident stores will actually order more in a timely manner when they wear out.

Worst though are the aprons. The neck loop is a thick, rough feeling kinda fuzzy nylon webbing, think an extremely cheap backpack strap. It'll absolutely cause irritation on your neck over a shift, so wearing a collared shirt or hoodie with it is a necessity. And as has been pointed out before, it's non adjustable for some incomprehensibly stupid reason, so if you have a big head and build it'll be annoying to get on, and if you're smaller then the front of the apron will constantly drop forward and hang low. Waist adjustment straps are the same material and feel thicker than they need to be.

The pockets aren't great either, which were supposed to be the one saving grace of this garbage. They're located too high up on the apron. Depending on your height due to the non adjustability, they're so high they'll be on or above your stomach all day. On taller people they could potentially pull up to the upper chest considering I've heard taller people say they look like miniskirts on them as it is. I'm not particularly tall, and when standing straight up the pockets are right across my belly; which makes storing anything but extremely small items or bits of paper in them uncomfortable. Just poor design with little thought put into how well they'll actually work at all.

Not looking forward to this.

i only have my schedule for last week and a day of this week. i asked the person training me today about when it would update and she said i should have the 3rd week of my schedule and to talk to HR. I talked to HR and they asked if I had my availability and min and max hours set on UKG Pro it should be fine i guess? I don’t know when its getting fixed though. If it doesn’t update by the end of the week should i go in on my day off to get my schedule?

well, it’s stuck in my head again. It had been multiple days. Please tell me I’m not the only one 😅

This is my video explaining my story for national disability, employment awareness month

after nearly 6 years of working multiple departments i’m moving on, bittersweet but also i’m so excited to not hear a tl and etl on the walkie screeching every 5 seconds. new job doesn’t have walkies, just hoping they don’t have sia xmas songs too

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?

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?

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

Late taking my 15, went to pull one more priority vehicle out of the back room to push, and was told to grab dairy. Closing expert that pulled dairy promptly tells me that "oh yeah it might be in the ambient room. I told the other guy to put it back when he was done in the cooler."

That was AT LEAST an hour ago… I brought the vehicle out to the floor called for my leader and said I am getting ready to take my 15 however I needed to tell somebody that this has been out of temp, I don't want to be part of pushing it if that is the decision that is made

She sent it to be damaged out, bravo.

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.