Question for TLs, ETLs, and long time team members

What is the main reason you don’t want to move up to the next position?

There’s just a bunch of people at my store who have worked for a while and just haven’t moved up and I was wondering why.

Look what just went into the baler.
I guess we are not hiring anymore new team members for the holidays.

“This is the image of the item”
Brother WHAT 💀

This is long, but I've noticed A LOT recently.

I've been reading this for several months, and it definitely seems like ASANTS.

(All stores are not the same)

However, reading about the stores and problems...... some stores sound like great atmospheres and others seem like absolute shitbox nightmares.

Obviously that begins at leadership levels.

There are some issues that seem? company wide.

I have a friend who works at a Target a state away.

He often describes similar issues at his location.

Some things I've really seen in action recently :

I've noticed product after product getting pulled, and ITS NOT TIED OR SET. This has gotten seriously worse the last few months at our store.

The TL in charge of setting things must be absolutely mailing it in.

Another day side superstar.

This kind of horseshit causes the entire closing team to fly by the seat of our pants and leads to us working doubly hard in a sense.

So product is pulled (LeTs KEEp MeTRicS up!!!)

Then pushed to the floor, all to be discovered its not set.

In fact its often a truly overstocked area full of a completely different product..

SURPRISE!!!

Let's bring it back and just backstock.

Double and triple the work and processes for several closers all because of 1-2 people's laziness.

Some of the kids and new hires are now just essentially saying "Fuck it, its gotta go somewhere NEAR here so let's just fling it close".

Backstock? Nah the Hell with that.....let's just slop it in everywhere.

Maybe this is a new hires thought train........

"I heard a TL call it FLEX.......well just fuck it . Let's flex 80% of the entire store".

I'm assuming the lack of tied and set areas may have something to do with Q4 approaching? Unrealistic expectations and workload???

It wasn't near this bad 4-5 months back.

Maybe some of you longer time Target employees know better than I.

So, our closers mostly get 5 hour shifts.

Right out of the gate I began picking up extra days and shifts in an effort to get more hours.

My mistake was going full blast 100% right out of the box, and ultimately I get met with more and more workload, and picking up after others.

Its interesting that its always like "let's just get things done in whatever slow ass fashion".

Then when shit really piles up and sections fall extremely behind, then its all out PANIC MODE~! and the few stronger and faster workers get REWARDED with more work and met with a "get it done faster mentality".

I have an idea, HOW THE FUCK ABOUT DOING IT RIGHT AND GETTING IT DONE ALL THE TIME , instead of chaos and panic when it gets deep and you've been slack assing it for weeks.

Guess that's just retail, but I've always seen it.

So for 6 months, I was picking up shifts, days, working a couple hours over, and essentially worked 6 days a week. (For 30 hours a week, which is bullshit too but thats another story)

I'm leaving in some fashion soon so I've been burning up vacation and sick time.

So I call out for the first time in 8-9 months, and I of course use my allocated sick time.

Then the next day I come in and the griping begins........

A few TLs look at me sideways, one won't even acknowledge me and it's all because of a single callout. (Ironically 3 of our 5 skeleton ass crew thats closers called out)

I just happened to be one of them....and I knew nothing about others calling out.

LOL. Like I orchestrated some kind of "call out attack". 💣 💣 💣

6 months of 6 days a week and "you're a hero".

Then you are a piece of shit for a single callout. Priceless.

So you implement attendance policies, allocate sick time as a corporation, but then TMs are met with resentment when you USE YOUR SICK TIME APPROPRIATELY?

This right here, is pretty epic when you think about it.

Sorry I let you down Team lead X, I wasn't here to do YOUR FUCKING JOB and mine as well.

All of our warehouse area is absolutely LOADED TO THE GILLS with pallets. Like, shit is literally EVERYWHERE. There's no room to even maneuver around safely.

I should origami risk the whole joint. 😆

I fully expected this, as I was around Q4 last year too. But this is just crazy. I don't remember it being quite to this level.

Long time style worker, used to be a closer but moved to dayside. Great employee.

Saw her yesterday and she said she loves daytime more, good for her. But, she was bitching about not getting hours.

Welcome to Q4~! Mass hiring every breathing human in a 30 mile radius for a seasonal role, and cut your solid workers hours. (You know,, the employees that actually know what they are doing)

This is another baffler to me.

Like, really? If someone can explain this one to me I'd love to hear it.

Staff the stores appropriately, then it might not be an unmitigated disaster when there's a couple callouts.

Apparently staffing the stores isn't ON BRAND anymore. 😆

There's plenty more, but it'll have to be after I wade through 10+ loaded ass carts of reshop and ALL BINS jammed full.

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.

I'm trying to change my availability for winter break while I'm home this is so confusing

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 🫠

Just finished my first month as a team member! Going well, same woes as everyone it seems but my store seems well lead for the most part. Does anyone have any tips on beating the physical exhaustion from standing/lifting and interacting with people all day? I’m GM but sub in up front probably an hour a day. Generally working M-F 7-3:30pm. I just don’t see how people come home and can do anything other than crash. 🤣 and I don’t even have kids to take care of. Some of y’all are saints! Give me your tips!

On vacation this week, first week of the pay period. According to this I’m asking for/getting 224 hours of vacation pay.

App lets you put in for paid vacation, but doesn’t let you choose how many hours you actually want to be paid for. Just trying to put in the request on UKG, like everything else, takes 18 button pushes and three tries. Can’t add to only get half a paycheck.

Anyone know if I have to back in at some point next week and backfill to get paid?

Like everyone else, I hate UKG.

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.

Target said your incontinence products are just cotton balls.

Had an interaction today that I genuinely don't know how to process.

I was picking an OPU with about 9 minutes left on the timer when a guest stopped me looking for a specific storage bin. No problem. Looked it up on my Zebra, told her which aisle it should be in.

She wanted me to go check the back because apparently she'd already looked there. I told her I could call someone from GM to help since I needed to finish my pickup order.

She looks at my cart and goes, "Why can't you just check?"

Me: "I'm on a timed order right now."

Her: "But those customers aren't even here."

I thought I'd misunderstood her.

Me: "They're still customers. They ordered this stuff for pickup."

Her: "Well, I'm actually standing here."

I genuinely had nothing to say to that.

Called GM, let her know someone was coming to help, and went back to my batch. Finished with 38 seconds left.

I don't mind helping guests. I stop to help people all day. But I had never considered that some people look at fulfillment TMs and apparently think we're just doing a little scavenger hunt for imaginary customers.

Ma'am, I am not pushing this three-tier around the store for the cardio.

I know this could be pretty unconventional or unpopular with other Target Employees lol

But

A lot of leaders give their TMs goodie bags for Holidays/Appreciation, however I've never seen anybody give any appreciation gifts to vendors and I was curious if this was against the rules anywhere? 👀

I do know that TMs absolutely cannot ACCEPT gifts from Vendors because it could be seen as a bribe.

I also know a lot of stores despise or just don't have relationships with their vendors like this, but I adore 99% of mine and they're constantly going above and beyond their jobs to help me out and I believe they should have some cute holiday appreciation 🥹

If I'm unable to gift them anything, I'll probably still do hand written cards regardless but I'm not wanting to break any rules.

TIA 🖤

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

hey, check your pdf on workday and your UKG! This paycheck and last paycheck im missing over 300 dollars in pay.

has this happened to anyone?

Coworker got a cookie dough in a gm batch, and it did lower time, is that happening now?

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

Does anyone else have information about the street date being Nov. 5th now? We are gonna have a lot of pissed off people tomorrow if they can't get their consoles. And I have heard a lot of chatter about canceled pre-orders too.

Loll I’m glad my hair covers my ears to hide my headphones

So we got a brand new trainee in today 2 hours after my shift started so I didn’t end up getting to take my first 15 until 4 hours and 45 minutes into my shift. Then our second closer called in late (still isn’t here) while our lead had to make our schedule. I held out as long as possible to make sure our trainee got good training.

To be ABSOLUTELY clear. I’m not actually vent (hence the flair). I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again if it means prioritizing our trainees and getting them proper training.

(Context: I’m in a 6 hour compliance state)

I am new and forgot to ask if I’m allowed to wear a costume when I work on Halloween. Anyone know if there is a way to contact HR so I can ask? Is there something in workday or UKG?

Hey team I need you guys opinion!! So I was thinking to do a transfer to a smaller format store. I’ve been with my current store for two years, and just get an employee rewards this month lol I like it so far to be where I am, the ETL and TL are cool but lately I feel so burnt out by the workload. And this week is the peak of it, until I don’t feel like going to work at all. If I could help it, I really want to do this transfer before the year end… do you guys think they will make it easy for me? And what’s the first step I should do first? Thank you!

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

As the title states, I left work early on accident and its making me like sick to my stomach. I have a write up for attendance pre points (entirely my fault) and im scared it might lead to me getting fired. I know its not likely but I just would like to know what is most likely to happen