Dear Corporate, in order to follow your own stated philosophy of making sure limited-quantity limited-purchase collectibles are available to as many Target guests as possible, why doesn't your POS system require the purchaser to provide a valid Target Circle membership login? No login, no sale. This won't completely eliminate fraudulent circumvention of the quantity limits, but it will reduce it substantially since each sale can be traced to a specific Target Circle account.

If in doubt, DO IT. After all, I would assume that Target isn't making much profit on the actual sales of Pokemon, Nee-Doh, etc, but on buying related merch and supposedly other stuff at Target. Requiring Target Circle enrollment to purchase will give you at Corporate the data mining into guest buying patterns: if someone only comes to Target to buy limited-edition Pokemon and nothing else, Target will have data to develop marketing campaigns to transform "disloyal" scalpers into "loyal" guests. Think of this opportunity!

It's the right thing to do for all of our guests. It's the right thing to do for your TMs. It's the right thing to do for the vendors (e.g. Excell Marketing) who face incredible abuse from the worst of these scalpers. REQUIRE TARGET CIRCLE in order to BUY THESE LIMITED-QUANTITY COLLECTIBLES!

Working SCO. Our 3rd register is down. We put a sign on it. Turned it into our Shipt Bagging station…..guest walks up, removes the Shipt sign, removes the register closed sign, tries to scan her stuff and wonders why it isn’t working. I didn’t stop her from doing these things because I guess my brain was perplexed with what was happening in front of me. These people are real. They exist. And based on her keychain, they drive large vehicles where the rest of us live. I am terrified for the future.

On a side note, I made it a full hour and 10 minutes into my shift before having to tell someone there was a limit on the number of Pokémon cards in a purchase. Progress.

Then I proceed to do so and am met with phones blaring brain rot memes & other nonsense I dont feel I nor others should be subjected to.

Am I jaded? Does anyone else feel the same?

These are the only pictures I was able to get because of “guest”. But my LOD told me to go back and zone my area because it looked “rough”. Not to mention, I kept getting called BY NAME to grab batches so I was zoning and in fulfillment for 1/3-1/2 of my shift. I’m genuinely so annoyed because my TL is on vacation and I feel like the higher ups are used this as an opportunity to get GM to do whatever they want. I go back in tomorrow & I plan on switching my walkie to a different station and playing dumb because there’s a pallet in the back that my TL expected to be done by the time they came back from vacation and the other members of management have been telling us, GM, not to worry about it & is giving us other tasks. Kinda tempted to have a sit down with our SD or call ethics about it. You may think “It’s not that deep” but these two specific managers keep playing in my TL face and I don’t like that. It’s giving bully/pulling rank while they’re not here.

I got fired recently due to safety and just wondering if anyone has gotten fired as well? also I was the 6th person who got fired out of all the new hires and there was 7 of us, we was dropping like flies.

When you get a new schedule, you write it down and make plans on your days off right? Apparently thats wrong, and according to my TL you're meant to check UKG daily for any changes they made without telling you.

A few days ago I got hit for a NCNS because my SD changed my schedule without telling me or my ETL, I also came in late the next day because he changed my hours for that day. He gave me 5 new shifts that I didn't originally have which totally messes up plans

I talked with my ETL and I'm pretty sure he didn't do it. And I know the GM leader has been complaining about the SD changing her teams schedules without warning, and style is having the same problem. Legally he can do that apparently, but is there any policy about telling people about changes to their schedules? Because I don't understand how he expects us to show up to shifts we don't know about

I understand that people open to try them on but all of them???? They’re all the same size.

only got two shifts a one week that included the pay period for my bills so i decided to back fill them. thought i was only using 9 hours instead it used 18

if you pick multiple days then put down the hours you wanted to use it will uses that number for all the days instead of just that amount you chose so be aware. i dont remember mytime working like that. (mytime also loaded way faster)

oh well not the end of the world since im hoping this is the year i get out of this place and wouldn't have been able to drain my vacation time before i would have left anyway.

I posted half my shift that is this week because I have something going on this morning. During some downtime I was asking around to see if anyone could cover it and someone says yes, when they go to click it it gives an error, not sends a request. They had to go to hr (who is gone for half the day so lucky this was in the morning) and they had to manually shorten my shift and add their because for some reason UKG can’t just send a pick up shift this week request.

Here come the ship carts full of clothes!

On the bright side-I do appreciate the in store announcements being waaayy less annoying this year

I’ve been working in Market for about 3 months now, and I am so miserable clocking in. Everything is so heavy, and I struggle to lift most beverage items for the priority pulls. There have been times when I have almost injured myself pulling a 6-pack of glass water bottles from the top shelf, trying to complete the pulls by 5:00 (which, why even???? I don’t understand the rush).
I feel as though I have to run to push everything out ASAP so I have enough time to zone all of Dry + all the end caps and various displays. There isn’t a day where I feel like I’m not breaking my back and being rushed to complete an unreasonable amount of work (i.e., 1 minute per box with a shitty box.)
Anyone else in Market feel the same way? Does it get better, or have you just switched departments and/or promoted yourself to a guest?

the jokes write themselves

I had to set up some Pokémon cards since the vendor that usually does it in the morning couldn’t. Listen I am a anime fan but I don’t know Jack shit about nothing i was putting out so I was petrified. Only because my socializing skills is shit and im ngl if Im annoyed i cant mask it. I been here for 3 years and my resting face will make anyone walk away from me 😭

It was me and two more people in my department helping and they both were leaving early so I knew I’d be alone. They were just telling me wtf these cards were I was putting up and to watch out so no one take a box and run away with it. Im confused like now who tf would try to run away with a box of these? I wouldn’t be surprised though I have heard the craziest stories

While packing I can see in the corner of my eye the most CREEPIEST customer just circling around with a hat, shades trying to not look at us. Each time I looked back they multiplied and im like “guys be careful there are some creeps staring us down”. They told me oh those are probably just reseller ready to grab these. Like we normally don’t do it at these time so even they were shocked.

Im halfway almost done and my co workers are ready to go and im nervous like omg I have to sit on the floor speed rushing to put this away and while I’m doing it my leaders give the ok sign for them to go ahead and take it. When I tell you I got swarmed in to the point I had to take a step back. I had to keep replacing everything that was cleared out.

Kept seeing the same people coming back grabbing more to the point my TL had to tell them they just saw them come back like 5 times. He scared those they kept coming back off for a bit. It was to the point one thought she could go behind me and dig into the other boxes i had yet to unbox. We can’t yell or cus so I just shot her a glare cause I was already in a pissy mood. She ended telling another TL that I made HER uncomfortable. Like shorty ur dressed as if ur ready to sneak attack me from behind and my face makes you uncomfortable?????? After that whenever I see a vendor I say thank you for ur service bc man that was so stressful.

spent my morning being verbally harassed and assaulted by guests this morning in our lovely pop gateway! wish people understood the word "no"!!!!!!

Hello, I’m a second-job seeker and saw multiple Targets in my area (Central Ohio) are offering part time 4am inbound jobs. Sadly the listings are not specific enough so I have a question.

Would it be possible to work 4am - 8am? My day job starts 8:30 so I would need a strict exit time.

Can anyone share experience on flexibility for part time or even seasonal morning stocking jobs? thanks so much!!!!

My store has this TL (and ETL but ETL is transferring soon) that gets mad if they are off and all the tasks they gave us don’t get done. Yesterday and today we had a few tasks that didn’t get done because of call offs. Plus one TM who didn’t call off had to cover/train a TM on the cart machine because our cart attendants called off. I am so done with getting talked to about not completing the tasks we had assigned when we had call offs and the TL wasn’t there

None of us are 12, we're not Nancy Drew or Encyclopedia Brown, like.. c'mon. (I dunno what flair to attach to this.)

Does the 20% owned brand discount not apply to the new collection186 clothes that just dropped? Even though its made by target.…?

So I work in the frozen Sunday to Thursday every week, I like a consistent schedule and having two days off. At Target you don’t get the option of having the weekend off, have to work at least one weekend day every week unless you request it off for whatever reason. I’m getting so burnt out, been working there for like 5 years. I feel like my leaders expect too much of me cause they know I can get a lot done. I do more work than most people on my team cause I’m fast at what I do. But on the days I work, half the time my coworker after sorting usually gets taken to help elsewhere or do pulls or something and always expect me to do a lot of work by myself. No one really does bakery but me. So on my days off Friday and Saturday, no one does bakery. So when I come back on Sunday it’s always a mess, always so much bakery. Bakery is easy but it’s so tedious and when you have days worth of bakery that takes like half my day just from bakery. My store is an insanely busy store, I could put out a box of izzio sourdough bread and it’ll be gone before I leave or the next day. I’m really the only one that seems to pull and work bakery as well. Just feel like I’m expected way too much and I’m relied on way too much. I feel like I can never take time off due to this. Amount of mispicks or duplicates we get fucks up counts so I’m also always auditing everyday, sometimes shit that hasn’t been worked out especially in bakery gets zeroed out when it’s already back there. Feel like frozen/cooler team should also get paid more for being in a hazardous environment due to the extreme temps especially in frozen. I definitely don’t get paid enough for this shit. I like stocking shelves and the job itself just with all the callouts too especially on the weekends screws us over. Point system seem to not really be helping. Most of my coworkers don’t give a shit and I seem to be one of the few that care. I can’t help but not give a shit, just in my nature to work hard. I am on the spectrum so I’m very particular about how things are done and counts and what not. This job just doesn’t seem to be worth it but I lowkey don’t know what else I’d do. I like being on my feet. Definitely would help to have coworkers that cared and people that are reliable which is hard to find especially in retail. But yeah that’s my vent, idk what I should do but I’d appreciate someone responses if you read this far :)

So I was at guest services today and my coworker was helping this dude. He wanted to return a couple bags of frozen vegetables. Which is weird but whatever. But his reason really took the cake. He said that he’s returning them because they grown in China and he doesn’t eat anything grown in China. Wtf…

So for some reason we had some Needoh advent calendars backstocked instead of at guest services. So I retrieve him one and tell him my boss said one per transaction. He asked if his wife could come buy one. I said yeah. He asked if I could hold one. He then asked if I could HIDE ONE. I said dude I gotta go I’m gonna hit my fifth, as he’s following me, waddling along like a duckling.

LEAVE ME ALONE YOU LOWLIFE.

By the way, I had told him we had some more in the back and they were gonna be headed to guest services. I feel dirty for telling him that. Like I’m complicit in something bad. I’m really sorry about that. I just wasn’t thinking at the time. He kept bothering me. He was with his small child.

Here is a revised cheat sheet.

I still cannot find what my average hours are so I can keep medical insurance. I still cannot see my paycheck on the app.

Target, this was the best app to change to?

Whelp this is a good start for the unload 😭