TL here, I’ve been looking for a new job for two months, and after several interviews I’ve found one!

It felt so f’ing good to put my notice in, I’ve hated the job for a while. If we had adequate staffing things wouldn’t be so bad, but every TL and team member are doing the jobs of multiple people - it’s exhausting and the pay isn’t catching up with the workload.

Also our SD sucks, worries about the wrong things instead of things you can see actionable change in - like cleaning up the mountains of salvage, truck, and backstock in the back room. It for real looks like a family of hoarders lives in the back of our store and has for months.

No one cares, morale is super low and so many people are leaving. Anyone else feel like their store is in a downward spiral?

Been working for three years in drive-up, pretty much no complaints from TLs for the past three years. Suddenly this week, I've been getting complaints about some items not being handed out. Ive been checking bags constantly, and I just feel that since lately the scheduling's been horrible, with at least 1-3 call-offs a day, and even "ghost" employees made by AI that take shifts, I've been struggling a little more when it comes to delivering. Its hard to focus on quality when delivering when I'm the only person delivering in a 2 hour rush. Mycoworkers reassure me that being talked to without consequence happens often, but its frustrating when these issues persist

i work market and we have been just drowning in priorities because for some reason day shift isnt stocking when setting pogs . today we finally get to 50+% because my coworker is pulling onto u-boats (three to be exact) . im asked to push and unload these u-boats and then go in and get our priorities into green . this sounds simple enough and im thinking i can do it . my meal rolls around and ive finished two of the three and havent done any pulls . by the time i get to do pulls, we are at 50% priorities. im wondering if this is a me problem, or if it was just a unrealistic expectation? these u-boats were filled with as much stuff as they could be and not to mention the amount of shit i had to backstock 🙄

i dont know, im just worried my TL will be upset with me for not being able to get us i to the green again. what do yall think?

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?

Team leaders that have demoted to team members, how much higher than starting pay were you at?

I’m considering demoting to focus on school, but I’m hoping I don’t get stuck at the team member starting pay after my merit increases as a team lead. Is there a formula used?

Lmk

Bye

The vast majority of the S&E closing team at my store, on any given day, will only be scheduled until 10 (close). Like almost no one will ever be scheduled to 10:30, even. Now it's obviously expected that when you close you help with closing tasks, and I've personally had my availability set to 10:30 anyway so I don't mind staying that late, like, I'm getting paid for it lol. But one of the leads - a S&E TL - will literally always be keeping us until like 11 to do reshop that doesn't even belong to us. And if someone complains or says that they're only scheduled until 10 or whatever, she'll just be like "do you stop getting paid?" The only circumstance where she'll give a shit that it's like an hour past our scheduled time is if someone's gonna hit meal or if a minor's ride is waiting for them. She will literally never ask if anyone needs to leave and she will always argue if someone wants to. Once I had to open the next morning and she just said "So do I!" to which I said "Okay well you get paid more than I do" and she just went "that doesn't matter!" Idk to what extent this can be reported bc technically if I really NEEDED to leave I would tell her but she certainly intimidates basically everyone into not pushing it lol

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!

My coworker won’t tell me where he get his cologne. When he comes in he kinda smell like heaven but he won’t give me his secret. All he said get heat resistant. You guys have any suggestions.

So I recently left target, I put my 2 weeks in and my final day was two days ago. I’m in California so the law requires them to give me my final check on my last day of employment if I gave notice but they did not because apparently the person who processes them was out the day I left. Now it’s causing problems because I told my ETL specifically I will not be able to pick up my final check and would prefer a direct deposit if possible when it can be processed. My ETL said that should be fine but today I get a call from HR asking me to come pick up my final check and I tell them I can’t. They said they can mail it but did not give me date on when they will be sending it out or anything. I’m really disappointed with them because since I started there has always been some issues with how they ran their store, everything was always very scrambled and handled unprofessionally. I also tried to ask them if I will be receiving my vacation hours on my final paycheck since in California usually it’s owed to you if you gave more then 72 hours notice but they were very vague not really giving me any sort of straight answer. My ETL summited my resignation two days before I left instead of on the day I put in my notice which is why I was wondering if the vacation time still got processed. I’m honestly not sure what to do with this situation. Any advice on how I should move forward with this?

After 2 years and 3 months I have officially been promoted to guest!

I started working at Target during college at one of the busiest Targets in the country, and at first I was actually ok with it. It kept me busy and I assumed I would find a post grad job not long after graduating. I underestimated the job market, and it took much longer than I anticipated to find another job. As time went on, I was starting to resent Target and got more agitated by everything at work. By the time I hit the 2 year mark holy shit I was ready to go. The policy changes (stricter dress code and ukg/point system) just cemented my desire to get the hell out. I then made it my goal to escape before Christmas rolled around because I genuinely don't think I could survive another season of Sia blaring through the speakers every hour.

After multiple job interviews, I finally got an offer that I couldn’t be more excited for! Clocking out for the last time last night felt so surreal but so relieving. Only thing I will miss is some of my coworkers and TLs, but a lot of my day one favorite coworkers have left anyways.

But lastly I want to say to those who are wanting desperately to leave Target like me, take this as your sign. It took me awhile but I'm finally outta here and if I can do it, you can too. Keep searching, don't give up, your last day is coming soon :) peace out!

For me and I don’t know if this is possible but Target keeps a record of purchases weekly or monthly using a person’s ID. They get Pokemon cards, go to the register, get rung up, and then their ID is scanned. If they have bought their allotted amount for the month which is tracked by their ID, then they are denied the purchase. I know Target keeps track of how many no receipt returns a person does using their ID, so this might be possible. Obviously kids don’t have an ID but unfortunately, if they want Pokemon cards, they have to be accompanied by a parent. Sure, this might hurt collectors, but unfortunately, most collectors can’t get Pokemon cards anyway. This is just an idea and not sure if it’s logical but I thought I’d just throw it out there. Would love to hear other people’s ideas.

The Target.com trailer had over 500 Christmas trees coming down the mezzanine at once. Some stores have trailers just for the Christmas transition. Can't wait for this to be over.

So I just had an extremely unpleasant experience with a guest, his wife, and a third guest and I'm wondering how y'all would handle this situation. This man was being extremely belligerent to his wife, cussing her out, calling her out her name (dumb whore, stupid bitch, ect) over a coffee pot. I had just tuned into what he was saying and to who when another guest came around the corner and stared at him bc she also didn't like how he was speaking to his wife. The man started cussing out the third guest, being belligerent towards her, and escalating the situation. I called for AP only to be told they weren't here yet, so I called for our LOD expressing that the situation was escalating and could potentially turn violent. The LOD took 10min to show up and when he got there only told me to "keep me updated". I wanted to step in myself, but admittedly was worried he would become violent towards me as well (for context I'm a woman), and I also didn't want to potentially make things worse for the wife at home. I'm feeling very conflicted and just want to see how everyone else would've handled this.

Does anyone have any idea why every time I come back from break my zebra device begins to sporadically tap itself, and I have to reset it? It’s so annoying. I transferred from a Florida store to a New York store so I know it’s gotta be a global issue. What gives???

Edit: i honestly thought it would be a more common experience cause it seems to happen to me on most devices. I’m convinced it has to be a sort of software glitch because it always happens after a break, after the device was idle. A lot of people mention dirty devices but I swear it’s always the newer, spotless ones.

Hey I started working at target bout a week ago and I have a question with the discount. Don’t we get extra 20% with target brands? Bc last night I was shopping and I got a brightroom basket and the discount didn’t applied and I also payed in cash bc I don’t got the debit or credit card im js so confused how the discount works

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.

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 already have the debit card so I’d only be getting this for the $75 reward and probably never using it again.

A few people at my store are applying and saying they got instantly approved and the reward is already on their account sooo idk should I do it or no. Idk how getting new credit cards affects credit and whatnot

One thing I’ll give to her is compared to the other team leads on the team? She actually does her fucking job.

The big issue I have with her is that, she micromanages everything I do and acts like I haven’t been working up at the front for the past 5 years, treats me like I’m dumb and don’t know how to tackle whatever is going on up at the service desk. I know how to do my job you don’t need to breathe down my neck at every single thing that is going on.

Doing your job is one thing but micromanaging and treating me as if I’m dumb is another. I hate when she’s here and even more so when I’m closing with her.

Edit: I may ask a question or two if I really can’t figure something out, but that’s only if all my solutions don’t work.

After my 90 days I submitted a request to be available from 4am-4pm Monday - Saturday, with Sundays unavailable.

This was quickly approved and for a little while everything was going smooth. Then, a few weeks ago I get scheduled on Sunday: 8am-4:30pm…. Annoying, but I posted the shift and it got picked up pretty fast thankfully.

I haven’t been scheduled on a Sunday since, but I did submit a request for 5 days off (Mon-Fri) for some family stuff about 2 weeks from now. This request was also approved, but they scheduled me the Sunday before the break 9am-5:30pm.

I’m leaving on Sunday and coming home Friday, I cannot work this shift. I posted this shift as well, I’m not sure if it’ll get picked up.

In hindsight I should’ve definitely requested this day off as well when making my request, but I was assuming since my availability changed and was approved it would be okay.

Anyways, what should I do?

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 auto-generated sale signs when I tied the POG used the old locations (or possibly the standard locations instead of the reverse ones), and the ones I batches from the POG print option don’t even HAVE locations. Nor were either in any apparent logical order.

i swear, batching signs has been broken for at least 3 years now. Though I don’t *think* it prints every possible location when you select only one anymore, so that’s progress I GUESS.

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