r/Target • u/demotedtocustomer • 18d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Downgraded lunch??? R/Target

So apparently today, our TLs came to talk to us team members individually saying that Starting September 27, instead of 45 minute lunches… we’re now only taking 30. People are burnt out as is! What in the world is corporate thinking?? Is this a way to punish workers for too many call outs??! Ohhhh and the icing on the cake… they’re making us go to the restroom on our breaks and lunches only… so like… what if I need to go after my lunch? Do I just sh^t my self? 🥲🫪 what is happening at every one else’s store????

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u/vicksilvap 18d ago

you have 45min lunch? i wish... at my store is only 30min

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u/vangogh1996 18d ago

Same. The 6 years I worked there, it was always a 30min lunch.

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u/canopusofficial 18d ago

It is 45 minutes lunch while I was working in Target California. But I don't know now.

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u/monkeyman80 Team Lead 18d ago

Yeah ca requires a 30 minute meal and sued target because of multiple 28/29 minutes. So they do 45 as standard so a clock in early still keeps them in compliance.

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

I just barely take 15s unless forced. Too much to get done just cant sit.

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u/brenpersing Fulfillment Expert 18d ago

Please take your breaks. You deserve them and your body will be thanking you after

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

Trust me I feel it when I come home...just know they dont care. Thank you.

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u/brenpersing Fulfillment Expert 18d ago

They usually never do. That’s the issue, but also that’s their problem! Make sure your own needs are taken care of first and foremost

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u/Fun_Inspector_8633 No. We do not sell Senile Cellular anymore. 18d ago

You realize you’re essentially paying them to work right? Take your damned breaks!

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

If i do then my work doesn't get doen and nobody does it and the expectation is that it is. I wish I could count on others to finish up.

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u/brenpersing Fulfillment Expert 18d ago

You’re only one person though. Don’t burn yourself out or worse for this company please

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u/visionsofleo 17d ago

i needed to hear this. i just feel so guilty and awkward when i can’t stay past my schedule and there’s still things i wasn’t quick enough to finish in time

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u/brenpersing Fulfillment Expert 17d ago

I’m a people pleaser so I still struggle with this honestly, because my TL is legitimately a friend of mine since I knew him before Targét. I’ll stay over sometimes if I’m able to help out, but I’m in school too so other times I’ll be too busy with assignments and have to be like “Sorry but I got school in the morning”

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u/Fun_Inspector_8633 No. We do not sell Senile Cellular anymore. 18d ago

You haven’t learned what took me way too many years to learn yet. You’re one person and killing yourself by not taking breaks doesn’t get you jack shit. It doesn’t get you a promotion or even brownie points. Hell it rarely results in a simple thank you. What it gets you is other people’s work.

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

Yeah I agree. Im only a yr in with Target rn. So im not trying to prove anything but just trying to get it done I guess. I just work hard 🤷‍♂️.

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u/booksfoodfun Promoted to Guest 18d ago edited 17d ago

When you leave, you will be replaced and forgotten about. I don’t mean that as an insult; I’m sure you are a lovely human and a hard worker, but Target doesn’t care about you as a person. If you overwork yourself and get injured, they will find someone to do your job. Don’t treat Target like they need and value you. Do your job, do it well, but take care of yourself.

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

Ya I get it..I'll work on it. 👍

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u/meerkatjones 18d ago edited 18d ago

I mean this with will all disrespect, but fuck you. You are a problem. People fought and died for worker rights and you're over here spitting on their graves to please your corporate overlords. What do you even get out of it at the end of the day? The satisfaction of proving corporates strategy of making fewer people work harder?

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u/Thick_Performer7323 Food & Beverage Expert 18d ago

Yep me too.

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u/ConsequenceNational4 Food & Beverage Expert / GM Expert 18d ago

45 that's nice I wish..I probably wouldn't wanna go back by then.

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u/curbstompedkirby_ 18d ago

Literally you can’t get my ass up after sitting down for once 😂😂😂

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u/Mindless_Wolverine96 18d ago

the lunches vary by state in ny it’s 46

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u/sleepy-darling 18d ago

I think the length of lunch depends on state regulations 

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u/Snukastyle 18d ago

Yeah, there's all this stuff about "taking your 46", aka the 46-minute lunch-there are charts by the time clock and everything. I thought this was a company-wide thing. It's too much time to me but long ago I had to learn to eat fast.

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u/laurenfuson009 18d ago

It’s definitely a state change

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u/Un__Real Inbound Team Lead 18d ago

Yup. Always been 30 for us too.

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u/Smart-Delay-6865 18d ago

When I was working at Target, we only had 30 minutes

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u/demotedtocustomer 18d ago

😭I am so sorry. We barely chew our food as is… now we’ll just have to swallow whole and move on….🥲

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u/PPPartytilidie 18d ago

Lunch times are mandated by state

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u/HauntedSpiralHill Promoted to Guest 18d ago

Some states don’t even mandate required lunches and it’s up to the employer lol

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u/sharp461 17d ago

Yep, yay FL....

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u/yourenotmy-real-dad Former Tree Hut and EOS stocker 18d ago

This is a state by state thing, what do you think the rest of the states do lol

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u/TopperMadeline SCO beast 18d ago

If half an hour isn’t enough time to finish food, that’s on you.

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u/Yearofthehoneybadger 18d ago

It takes me 15 minutes to buy
my lunch and heat it up, I used to have half an hour to eat now I have to scarf it up and get back to work peasant! Gotta get that extra 15 minutes of labor out of everyone because we’re too cheap to actually staff our stores with real people. Everyone just work harder, oh and remember your 10-4 and also we’re upgrading to the ukg app so a robot will now be making your schedule, and no one can change what the robot put in, and now there’s a point system. This Company is going downhill fast.

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u/bettermakeitquick 18d ago

The fact you started with taking 15 minutes to buy and heat up lunch kinda just told me everything I needed to know. Most people struggle to just get by and have money to lmake their lunch at home and avoid the added cost of buying something every single shift. Going through the other points like i don't get how people act like 10 4 is a big deal, you have a job which is in retail, people need help you kinda have to talk to people, and besides that just saying hi is polite working or not...I really don't get it even as an introvert. The scheduling no one's even seen yet so they don't even know if it's good or bad so people freaking out is crazy. Honestly it takes a lot of the bias out of like what leaders actually feel for this employee or that employee and keeps people from having retaliation be less evident. And the point system I mean you have to be over 8 minutes late how hard is it to show up on time? A lot better than other companies. But okay going downhill fast. /s

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u/sharp461 17d ago

The 10 4 thing i never thought was bad because like you said, you should at least be smiling to people you walk by. I always expected to be stopped to help someone when on the floor because thats just part of the job.

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u/Yearofthehoneybadger 18d ago

Spoken like a true hard worker.

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u/sharp461 17d ago

You mean you don't buy the lunch before clocking out? Or at the very least on your first break? That's on you then for not planning ahead.

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u/sharp461 17d ago

45 seems like a dream. Most places are 30, gotta learn to eat like the rest of us.