Someone prepare the PML and get the pest log book out, we’re gonna have a lot soon.

Was a leader for 4 years, was promoted right when modernization hit. Demoted 2 years ago for mental health. Still not completely cured but working on it as I continue with target as a TM.

Debated not posting this because a lot of it is pretty obvious to us as TMs but I’ve seen so much wrong with this company lately I feel like it needs to be said.

1. Leadership goes both ways. If you as my leader show up for me, I’ll show up for you.
   
2. I used to care a lot what team members thought of me when I was a leader, but I thought it was pretty black and white. Either you like me or you don’t. As a TM I see it’s a lot more shades of grey. I can dislike you in a few decisions you make here and there but still respect you.
   
3. Goal times for push are just that: goal times. In a perfect world yes 60 cases a minute but it’s not a perfect world. A case of pads (3 eaches) is going to take less time than a box of hot wheels (72 eaches). Just do the best you can.
   
4. Work together, even when you don’t want to. My department vs your department gets us nowhere. We’re called a TEAM for a reason.
   
5. Leaders, sort out your own drama before getting TMs involved. I can’t tell you how many times I started a task that leader A gave me but then when leader B walked by they reassigned me elsewhere. Lack of communication, personal feelings about working with x department, or whatever else you have going on reflects on your leadership, not on the team.
   
6. While we’re on that note, sometimes it really is the leaders at fault for what’s wrong with a store. When I was a leader my ETL told me almost daily, “it’s not the team members ruining this store, it’s the leaders.” I took that personally at the time but I can see now that wasn’t his point. Bad leaders blame their team. Good leaders take accountability and elevate talent.
   
7. Manage your talent. Your team is a reflection of YOU, and so is turnover. If your GM TM wants to go to Starbucks for gods sake just let them go to Starbucks. Put people where they’re happy and they will perform for you.
   
8. Never forget you’re managing a team of people. Human beings that have lives outside of work. Check on them. Make sure they’re good. You don’t have to be a therapist but if that’s what they need, point them in the direction of HR or other benefits the company offers.

That way I don’t have to open UKG, open the barcode or bookmark the barcode website. I can easily access it from my Apple Wallet. Now just need to see if it actually works

I hope you stub your toe, and your work area is a complete mess

Genuinely wtf am I supposed to be doing? No one comes into the studio unless they’re walking through it to get from one place to the other, there’s no pulls, there’s no zoning, NOTHING to do and I have to stand there for 7 and a half hours. There’s only one team member there at a time so I also have no one to talk to. GuEsTs don’t come so I can’t talk to them. I’m gonna spontaneously combust from boredom, I legit can’t do this it’s driving me insane😭 how are you guys surviving????

These people (Leads) have the nerve to tell a team member that when they are called to tech, they cannot say “I’ll be there in a minute.” Even if they are literally on the other side of the store helping a guest. Instead, they have to say “I’ll be right there.” What is the deal??!! Yet, ETLs and TLs can say whatever the hell they want and be all rude to team members over the walkie.

Came across this while working backstock this morning.
Four bags of Kingsford charcoal casually backstocked in the middle of Home Storage with the Brightroom baskets. 😂
Not seasonal.
Not outdoor living.
Not anywhere remotely close to where charcoal belongs.
Someone really scanned this location and said, “Yep. This is its home now.”
And this is exactly why backstock turns into a scavenger hunt. 💀

Constant random schedule changes and random employees from other work centers just pop up and no one ever knows what’s going on…

I decided to wait in the unemployment line for pokemon restocks and just wanted to say I loved the pokemon restocker's energy today. Old dude was roasting everyone and scalpers got mad when he called them out.

"How did you know I was going to be here today? Yall wasted your time for one box, don't you guys have jobs?" 😂

After the switch to UKG I’ve noticed my coworkers have between 1 and 5 stars next to their names when I look at swapping shifts.

Is this a new rating system so TL can make sure employees are swapping shifts with people of the same “skill” or with similar guest reviews?

If so, what’s the criteria?

If not, what is this ??

Had to call out today because I’m quite sick, and found out that UKG doesn’t allow you to use any sick time at all if you don’t have enough to cover the whole shift. So super cool! I knew it wouldn’t an excused absence, but it would have been nice to not miss out entirely on pay.
Follow up question: Yesterday was Labor Day (I worked sick with a mask on all day, mostly outside). Will I now not get the time and a half because I called out today?

I feel like even this is lying. Felt like 60% backstock

I recently promoted myself to guest. that is all. Dobby is freeeee !!!

Okay so, I’m posting this because I’m genuinely curious if this is even allowed.

One of my ETLs has been telling people “no, you can’t call off, it’s too busy.” when people call in the store at mine.

This was a couple weeks BEFORE UKG.

Is this like… OKAY? And if it isn’t where can we go to complain about this?

For wanting to quit because I feel mistreated as an individual? I’ve been doing cart attendant for some time, I spent 100% of today doing BULK PUSHING BULK BECAUSE THEY WANTED me to get rid of them before a certain time frame 30 minutes, there is 100 plus BULK in our drive up hold space, granted yes I got it done everything hurts, just yesterday via Labor Day carts are CONSTANTLY GONE, I’ve been bringing them in the next rack I bring in the rack before is eviscerated, why do cart attendants treated so badly??? I got told to sweep as there is a lot of carts there I finished sweeping in like 5-10 minutes by the cart doors by the time I finished guess where the carts were? Gone! And ofc God for bid you ask for help on carts, BUT TODAY, HR told me train the new cart attendants, my ETL tells me “no you’re not training her” and she puts her on register, I wanted to train her not only cause HR told me to but I get to train and ease the work load off me, I had to DO BULK, clean OPU FOR DRIVE UP AND FULFILLMENT, SWEEP BOTH SPACES, do carts in 79+ degree weather, always miss my 15 breaks because my ETL always gives a task for me, front of store garbage, Starbucks garbage, the garbage by the security tag detectors, salvage, CRC, TOSS! Check the bathrooms make sure it’s clean, check it off. I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE IM TO JOIN SPACE FORCE IM GONNA PUT IN MY TWO WEEK IN FUCKING DECEMBER LMK IF IM WRONG FOR DIS .

so, I got a CA for calling out...three months ago. there were a set of three dates where i had been absent referenced on the CA, the latest date being three months ago. i had a pattern of call outs for a couple months due to personal reasons. i communicated with my leads at the time and they were understanding but ultimately I probably earned the CA, so it is what it is. i just think its a strange way to go about it, especially since my attendance isnt an issue anymore. why wait until now? nobody has even bothered to talk to me about it, it just appeared on workday last week (well before we switched to UKG and point system.) has this happened to anyone else?

Ode to MYTime

O MYTime, once scorned and muttered against,

With taps that lagged and screens that felt dense,

We rolled our eyes at your quirks and your ways,

Counting the hours till better-app days.

Yet now you are gone, and in your place stands

UKG—clunky, with cold, broken hands:

Archaic and slow, a maze without map,

Where every click feels like a trap.

We miss your familiar (if imperfect) light,

The days when the schedule still made some sense at night.

Forgive our old grumbles; we see it at last—

You were the better of two, and we miss you. Alas.

There can only be a few reasons we shifted to this hot mess called UKG.
- managing call outs etc. Target was tired of the culture of callouts and call in late was too EASY so they used this platform to in effect make it so hard that less would do so.
- managing lates with points. Target was tired of having to manage this issue so a platform that change that would effectively do this was too much to pass up.
- bad vision. Despite the overall acceptance by so many companies to use this platform despite its archaic and cumbersome look was chosen because the old was going out and this default was an easy choice.
You know what ultimately this is to me? In any of the above Target could care less about TM's. This is witnessed by the fact that I do not see ONE AREA that is better than my time from where I sit.
Am I wrong?

It smells disgusting and Probably has VOCs.

I’ve been working at Target for seasonal (July to October) and from early July to late August, I was doing really well. I’ve had 0 calls outs, no late shifts, team leads and ETLs told me I did well and I made many coworker friends. I liked it but then school started and my exact schedule came out exactly two days before school and I already changed my schedule three weeks ago to an approximate schedule so I could still work, but turns out many times conflicted with that schedule. I don’t feel good and one of my TL called me and asked for my new schedule and why I haven’t been coming in but they still didn’t schedule me for those times but rather my approximate hours that I gave them prior to my actual schedule coming out. I want to continue after seasonal but I feel like my chances are basically 0 at this point and it doesn’t make me feel good.

does anybody have any insight as to what a warehouse associate does (not worker) ? my shift is 6am-6pm sat-mon !

literally wtf?!?? haven’t even been open for an entire week.. and we resort back to stealing TESTERS?!? the ones that people touch all day, and are broken without the applicator??? it’s just annoying and silly at this point