r/Target • • 13m left

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Can you be on 2 leaves at once? On intermittent for family care but need surgery.

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So basically i have a situation. I currently have fmla intermittent leave for care of a sick family member, .im about to go in for emergency surgery and won't be able to work a few weeks.

I have the short term disability insurances through target. But I'd have to start a new leave for myself.

Can you be on 2 leaves at once?

I will call pay amd benefits once im home of course but just curious now how this would work if anybody knows


r/Target • • 1h ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content Maybe I’m the problem…

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I don’t know if anyone else sees what I see but this isn’t very “on brand” to me. However considering the things Target has gotten called out for I wouldn’t be surprised if they also recognized that this could be interpreted wrong and still thought it was a good idea. But it’s probably just the white person in me who thinks it’s weird that they thought the location was acceptable… 😬


r/Target • • 2h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed I just completed my second shift and idk what to do :/

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Hello everyone, I recently got hired as a style consultant. I originally wanted guest services, but I applied for every available job listing and they put me there. I had high hopes during orientation and was genuinely excited. My very first shift was an overnight 10-6 where I was in the back doing breakdowns and cutting up boxes, with the occasional stocking the shelf and racks. It was genuinely insane back there and I see why style needed the extra help. That's not even the issue, I think the people I work with overnight may be toxic. I had my second shift tonight and I desperately want to swap departments. I may be overly sensitive and dramatic because I worked two back to back night shifts with no sleep in between. Today my coworkers were gossiping about someone in a different department and made transphobic comments and laughed and I felt so weird/uncomfortable because unbeknownst to them I'm actually under that umbrella. They play gross explicit music the whole 8 hours. I asked for help stocking the shelves because there was no more room and I didn't know what to do with the remaining clothes and was ignored while my TL and coworkers laughed and giggled the whole time. I asked someone else and was told "I don't know." It was my second shift and I was made to feel dumb because I didn't know I was supposed to backstock what couldn't fit, despite me asking for 20 minutes what they wanted me to do. A coworker asked me to help her backstock her pallet of clothing and I agreed, just for her to make me pull everything to the back room and stack all her extra heavy boxes alone once the clock hit 6 AM. The last straw was my TL looking at me crazy when I mentioned I couldn't work another overnight on friday because my ride was going out of town and I didn't have transportation that night. I don't feel safe being in Ubers at night alone as a single female. My back hurts, my feet hurt, but the pay is decent and I'm still hoping things can get better, but I'm not sure what to do. Sorry for how long this is LOL.


r/Target • • 10h ago

Workplace Story ACOTAR book release...

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Keeping the store open until 1am, paying several staff for it, and being fully prepared with 100 tickets...

To sell 5 books. All the people were there before 10pm. Absolutely everyone could've gone home almost 3 hours early, lol.

An estimated 3-5 more people came in for regular shopping.

Yep, sounds totally worth it to me!! I'm just so entertained by this.


r/Target • • 10h ago

Future or Potential Employee Question Wrong SS on background check

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Like the title says, I accidentally mistyped my social-security number by one number when doing the accurate background-background check. I seriously thought it was the correct SS until I looked at my card and I realize it was just one number off..

I went in person the next day, one to have my work permit signed but also to notify them about my mistype on my background check, I am a minor and I’m certain that nothing will pop up but I’m just worried about if this will really affect anything. My orientation is on Friday and I’m kind of wondering what would happen if I left it alone but more so if my orientation would be pushed back or if I shouldn’t be as worried as I am (of course, I am going to ask HR tomorrow if they can send a new background check with the correct information).

I would really like some feedback or stories from people this may have happened to before


r/Target • • 11h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed How do I request days off in UKG?

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I want to request a couple days off, but I'm tripping up with the hours duration in UKG. I would like a clarification of the whole process.

When asking for time off, do I put all of the days in the same row? Or do I request the days in separate rows? When it comes to the hours part, I'm guessing I put the starting time at 12am. Do I put the duration at 23:98 to cover the whole day? Does the one duration input go for the multiple days requested?


r/Target • • 12h ago

Vent I hated my manager while I worked at Target

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Title says it all o hated my manager, when I got hired he was the front end manager which was fine but he always made it clear he played favorites and wanted to go up the ranks as fast as possible. Within a 5 year period he became store manager. I was working part time as a college student when I was home, after graduating I stayed at target until I got a full time job and those last few months of work were the worst. This manager only cared about himself to the point it became impossible to work he made my favorite TL cry and quit he was so rude. He would often understaff the store especially the front end where I worked to make him stay under the hours provided to schedule us. The back and behind customer service was always a mess because we never had anyone to clean it. The only time anything would be cleaned is if a regional manager came in it would be cleaned and magically staffed. As a kind of middle finger I have about 50 hours of Sick Time Off saved over the years since I rarely called out and used every single minute of it and on my last day which he knew it was would barely acknowledge me.
I just had to rant to people that would understand as it’s now been a year since I quit.


r/Target • • 12h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed How does switching departments work?

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I was originally hired on for fulfillment but I have picked up a few shifts in service and engagement and I loved it. The service and engagement team leader loves me and said he would love for me to switch over. I've gotten many compliments from customers while working as a cashier especially on my first day and I got a shout out today from the store director. The service and engagement TL and the fulfillment TL said they would talk to the store director and their departments ETLs. How does switching departments work? What should I expect?


r/Target • • 12h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed What exactly is compliance?

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So our service and engagement team leader told me I could stay till 10 PM because It doesn't break compliance and he knows I am a minor but our HR team leader says I have to leave at 9:45 PM no matter what because I am a minor. I told our HR team leader that our service and engagement team leader said I could stay till 10:00 because it doesn't break compliance but she basically said that doesn't matter. What exactly is compliance? Why can't I stay past 9:45 p.m.? I know for a fact it is not a state law so I'm not sure why I broke compliance.


r/Target • • 12h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Why does it make me pull an item if it’s already full?

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Ive had this happen so many times and it’s like my 6th shift.


r/Target • • 12h ago

Vent my SD threatened to write me up over a metric that I no longer own. I’m 🤏 this close to quitting.

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Apologies for how long this maybe be. For context, I’m a style TL in an extremely high volume store. In fact, I am the ONLY specialty leader in the store because our other one quit with no notice and then our third one quit shortly after. (just in time for Q4! awesome!) I am literally DROWNING. Style breakout is stacked 10 feet high with palettes upon palettes of repacks, not to mention the 7 palettes of case packs. I had to complete 32 domestics end caps last week from the domestics transition, TONS of my style POGS have been unable to get done because my workload is just through the roof now, etc. My HR ETL’s only seasonal hires have been for fulfillment and front end as if I don’t tell her everyday that I need her to hire seasonal help for style lol.

3 months ago, it was announced that style no longer owns price change and it was given to GM. Previously, when we did own price change, it would be me and my ETL rushing around trying to make sure it got done because my SD refused to let my ETL designate a TM for price change (she didn’t wanna spend an extra 40 hours a week on a new TM just for price change lol) so instead, she’d dump the responsibility on me to make sure I did it and completed it by EOD Friday every week. After it was announced that it was no longer my problem, my ETL and I literally celebrated how much we were gonna be able to get done now since we wouldn’t have to dedicate our entire week to price change. It was made very clear that style has no responsibility to do any price changes (even the style ones, unless they needed support from call outs, etc) our GM team leads were told that it is now their responsibility to find a designated person to complete style price change every week. Of course, they never did. GM doesn’t give a fuck about it and continues to act as if it’s my responsibility to get it done every week and my SD does nothing about it.

I spoke to her about it multiple times, reminding her that my department is quite literally on fire and that price change is no longer styles responsibility. My ETL backs me up on this constantly because she is also just as confused, irritated, and overwhelmed as I am. The GM TL’s at my store don’t have NEARLY as much workload as I do and they sure as hell have a way bigger team than I do who they could easily delegate the task to. Because of this, price change has gone overdue for the last 3 weeks because I don’t have time to do it and the people on my team have limited availability which doesn’t allow them to complete a large percentage of price change every day. Not to mention, my ETL always tells me to prioritize literally everything else BEFORE price change (because once again, my department is on fire and i’m only one fucking person.) My SD comes up to me today and tells me that if price change goes overdue one more time, she’s writing me up. LOL okay. So now once again, I’m forced to ditch my department and let the shit-storm continue to pile while all of MY priorities get put on the back burner so I can complete 2,800+ price changes by Friday. I fucking hate my store and my SD, she has no idea how to run a fucking store and I might be the next leader to walk the fuck out and never come back. If you stayed to read all of this BS, thanks for listening. Felt good to get off my chest 🫠


r/Target • • 13h ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content one of these things is not like the other…

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r/Target • • 13h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed My left foot is killing me.

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I just started fulfillment, and on my second day, my left foot is causing me to limp with pain every step I take. The pain is located around the navicular bone, like a spot on my right side of my left foot. I don’t know what to do at this point. I can’t just keep limping all the time, and I’m worried this’ll eventually go from inconvenience to problematic. I genuinely need solutions, what shoes? How do I deal with something that starts experiencing pain the moment I walk or apply weight to it? And I need solutions that aren’t expensive. Sorry, but I just can’t afford a 150$ ACICS shoes, I something that I can actually afford without taking over a 100$ to spend. Please help.


r/Target • • 13h ago

Future or Potential Employee Question Interview and promotions?

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Ive got my 2nd interview in person for an Overnight Inbound Team Leader later this week. Any advice for the interview?

Another question. Any difficulties getting promoted past Team Leader? What are the other positions past Team Leader? Im looking for become a store manager of some type, and im looking to eventually be Salaried.

Anything helps! Thank you all!


r/Target • • 13h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed After I've scanned an item into a fulfillment order, is there any way to double check that it's the right item?

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I scanned a pair of socks for a Fulfillment order but had three different sizes of the same item in my hand when I scanned it and can't remember which one I scanned. Is there any way to rescan the item or to see the # for the item after I've scanned it?


r/Target • • 13h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Tree Tables

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Share some of your tree table displays! I wanna see other stores


r/Target • • 14h ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content I think it might be time to stop letting AI name the products

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I get that it’s a biking unitard, but I feel like the long name didn’t really need shortening? 😅


r/Target • • 14h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Highest possible units packed per hour?

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What’s the highest stat that’s possible for units packed per hour? There’s someone at my store that always has 600-800+ units packed per hour, no one seems to ever come close to matching it. How is it possible to pack that fast?


r/Target • • 16h ago

PSA So sorry to the men….

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Target said your incontinence products are just cotton balls.


r/Target • • 16h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Can I still transfer?

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Hi folks! I started my job as a guest ad about one month ago. My husband is a service member and may be getting kicked out due to medical complications. If he does- it could happen under my first 90 day period. How likely will my store’s team be able to if even willing to transfer me to a store out of state? I haven’t said anything yet because I have no idea if it’ll actually happen or not. Just trying to weigh my options since I’ve been so happy with this job and don’t want to get let go for something that is out of my control.


r/Target • • 16h ago

Future or Potential Employee Question Just got hired

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I just got hired for a seasonal fulfillment expert position at target and I honestly just want to take any advice that you guys would have for me. My work experience is working at raising canes, boba shop and mainly in the food industry. I just want to gain at least enough knowledge to help me out as I start working so I would appreciate any tips or advice that you guys have for me with my position. I heard that fulfillment is arguably one of the hardest positions to work at target. Is that true?


r/Target • • 17h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Availability request ignored and being scheduled hours outside availability?

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Due to being in college I needed more off days just for school work. So on 9-30 I requested to change my availability to only work on thursdays, Fridays and sat so that would’ve been put in place on 10-20 I also changed my requested hours to 18-22, since then I’ve been given 4 days working 32 hours a week and half the time I’m working past my availability which is 7-5 instead I’ve gotten 12-8 11-7:30 fairly often. is this normal?

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r/Target • • 17h ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content How will you spend your extra hour after Daylight Saving Time ends?

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218 votes, 5d left
Sleeping an extra hour
Working an extra hour
No DST; no extra hour
The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.
Doing something other than sleeping or working that I need everyone to know in the comments
Don’t choose this option.

r/Target • • 17h ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content lukewarm take

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i think the point system is enabling people to call off and retroactively making things worse instead of better 😭

like at my store i think people started calling off more often if anything


r/Target • • 17h ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Working Halloween

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Is anyone else going to do a subtle costume/makeup?