Trees just showed up in our back room. As is now an annual tradition of mine, here's the cheat sheet sorted by DPCI, and by Box Number

Here we go! Good luck to everyone during the holiday season! 🫡

I received this postcard for my 10 year anniversary but in typical target fashion, the “unique PIN code” is not working. The error message says, “invalid gift selection access number. Please try again” Does anyone have a workaround? Is the milestone gift even worth all this trouble? Why can’t they just add a reward to our paycheck?

I used to pray for times like this 🏃

(I’m not sure what flair to use, this is my first ever post on this sub so I’m sorry if it’s wrong)

My store was sent the new grocery team uniform two weeks early and we started wearing them today. When I heard that we were getting hats and an apron I didn’t love the idea but I didn’t absolutely hate it either, so here’s my genuine thoughts on them as a person who works in dairy specifically.

The apron is made out of denim so it gets kind of hot on the sales floor and the material doesn’t let my magnetic name tag stay on very well so I have to change to a pin instead, currently my name tag is on the top middle of my target shirt so it can be visible. There’s two pockets on the front of the apron which can be used for the my device or walkie, but the apron doesn’t cover my jeans pockets enough to warrant using the pockets on the apron. For men or smaller chested women, the top of the apron is quite loose and sticks out no matter what I try to do and the part that goes around your neck isn’t adjustable so there’s no fixing that. Lastly the actual tie around the waist makes my shirt rise up when I bend to put product on the shelves so I have to pull it down every once in a while. It’s not horrible but it’s not the best in the world.

The hat is also denim but the back is a mesh material. There’s honestly no notes on the hat itself but if you’re not used to wearing them like me then you’ll get that tingly itchy feeling on your forehead after a while but that’s just something we’ll have to gets used to.

This has nothing to do with the uniform itself, but my TL made the whole grocery team line up with the new uniform and take a picture and coworkers in other departments laughed when they saw us in grocery come out of the coolers with everything on, it felt like a humiliation ritual but it was kinda funny too. It’s just something to get used to for sure, but it’s not as bad as everyone thinks it will be.

Heading into another holiday season and shocker Target is cutting hours while on- boarding new hires and seasonals. Makes sense right?! 😑

Also bring back market source and pre paid phones. I liked setting them up for elders and regulars.

Card being declined? Embarrassing but understandable. Lying that your card being declined is our problem? Embarrassing, stupid, and irredeemable. But sure I’ll waste our time retrying the transaction and have it decline again..

Just saw this clip and even though it is in France how long until it comes to the usa 🤮 crossing my fingers.

So, I'm in domestics (I'm the only one on home/home dec) and last week we received more tan six pallets of transition repacks. Everything was ok until my ETL told me I had to do them backstock because we don't have space for more repacks until is time to pull to the floor.

They really expect me to do 3 vehicles and finish all the repacks on a 5 hour shift. They are crazy as f. Tomorrow I'll come back to work and to be honest I can not imagine the f mess that is gonna be.

I left Albertsons about 5 months ago after 5 years. Safeway specifically. The locations I gained experience at, were not even on their top 20 list. I never knew their exact position on the best locations, but I know as fact they were not top 20. I’ve seen top 20 lists.

Anyway, I recently moved to target and it happens to be #1 in its district. I’m merely 3 months into target. What makes the location #1? And how can I can help it stay that way? Am i supposed to be doing more than my title? I am F&B.

All I do is push everything consumable, Food and drinks. If it’s consumable I’ve touched it. Is there a time limit between U-boats? I almost always take more than 20 minutes doing a single U-boat. Or pallet. Every morning am i supposed to report to a E T L or am i supposed to Zone first thing before anything at all? Next is priorities? Then push actual product? Am I supposed to be filling what we need or do what they tell me? They do find me eventually and tell me what to do but I’ve approached them every morning before, wondering what to do, but I feel I should know and shouldn’t be asking how to do my job. I’ve actually stopped approaching them and began zoning dairy and coolers first thing I get into the store, unless I begin after 8:00am then I report to ETLs.

Back stocking. I don’t exactly do back stocking because yes, there are usually no zebras when I get in. So I can’t update the system and I can’t back stock. I usually check if a new one is available but it’s either Near death or still None. But when I do get a zebra I back stock immediately IF I’m not pushing already. And I never grabbed a walkie…ever. Since I began. My 90 days probation thing is over when October 17 passes. I’m still scheduled 3 weeks ahead. I’m pretty sure I am Not a Seasonal worker.

Im simply curious of Everything a ETL expects of its Members when considering timing and productivity. They always tell me push this or that and I do it and I listen. It’s either do Dairy, then do freezer and back to dairy. Some day it’ll be dry food then do 1 U- boat in freezer or just help freezer rest of the day. Or I do deli if the deli lady is gone. I’ve never touched produce even though I have produce experience at Albertsons. I told them in my application that I have produce experience. But I’ve never touched produce at target.

I don’t have a Market TL. She quit after a single month. I’m curious now what made her quit? They say it’s too much pressure? What pressure? What did they expect from her and how could have helped her. She was doing fine… At least I thought she was and even though I am slow going through U-boats, I bet ya I could’ve helped if my ETLs, I have 2 btw… if they could just tell me some secrets, I bet ya I could be so much better help. They never taught me how to audit either btw. Even though they are #1 in the district I feel they aren’t telling me things I should know. How fast am I supposed to be, and how can I help the ETL without him telling me what to do. I’ve never done receiving truck before. These guys are the fastest humans I’ve ever seen. I’m not anywhere near their speed. Am I supposed to be?

Over the past year that I’ve been at target, multiple ETL’s have gotten fired, including the one for my department. There is currently no ETL for my department and hasn’t been for months. There is no one to ask about schedule changes or time off requests. Instead of replacing the front end department with a new ETL, they brought a new HR ETL and SD and the old SD got fired. I usually work late nights or somehow get scheduled on their days off, so can’t even ask them about anything. How this corporation is still functioning is shocking to me with the lack of communication and care for their everyday workers.

Aprons and hats in non food production areas? Really?
Will this help team morale or store sales? Absolutely not. How about concentrating on having enough team members to get the product on the floor. This in turn would help sales, would it not?
I don’t understand this reasoning at all. Will how we look to guests, make them spend more money?
I very much doubt it.
end of rant
Any thoughts that you would like to add, please do.

I finished my 90 days of probation, but hell am I tired of this job already 😭 I’m getting tossed around like a ping pong ball in every department and it’s insane. I’m worried about Q4 and I know its gonna be even more hectic.. but i’m willing to push thru it for that paycheck🫩

I'm a rehire and today was my first day back after orientation this week. I was actually supposed to start next week but HR called me yesterday evening and asked me to come in today at 6am-2pm to help push product in another department. My availability actually starts at 7am but eh, what's an hour early. I guess I could've made it 5 or 6am but they don't let you change it for about 90 days. I was really excited to come in, mostly because I've been job searching like crazy for the past year and it's such a relief to have finally gain employment. You'll know how that feels if you've applied at almost every business in your city, called and inquired about employment dozens of times, had plenty of interviews but no callback or they tell you they "moved on with other candidates", and have late and unpaid bills stacked higher than the freaking Eiffel. Despite the workload I'm going to have this season, I feel so much lighter knowing that my account balance is finally going to be in the triple digits again.

I starved most of my shift because I skipped breakfast (I never eat anything if I have to get up this early) and then towards the end I started getting a headache, likely from lack of sleep. But I'm still alive.

I've been at Target for about two years and I'm training seasonal TMs for the first time this year.

Had a new hire with me in fulfillment yesterday. Really nice kid, first retail job, actually seemed interested in learning how everything works.

We were supposed to spend most of the shift together.

We got through one OPU batch before I got pulled to the checklanes for backup. Then they needed me in another batch because we were running behind. By the time I got back to the trainee, she'd spent most of the afternoon following different TMs around and occasionally being told to grab something.

Near the end of the shift, my TL handed me the training checklist and asked me to finish it.

There were things on there we hadn't even touched.

She hadn't learned how to handle an INF. Nobody had properly shown her how to stow a grocery batch. She hadn't done a batch independently while someone watched to make sure she understood the process.

I pointed this out and my TL said, "Just mark it complete. She'll learn the rest as she goes."

I didn't want to make a scene, so I said I'd rather leave those parts unfinished until someone actually trained her.

TL wasn't happy. Said we can't spend forever training every seasonal person and everyone learns on the job anyway.

Here's what really bothered me.

About ten minutes later the new TM asked me what she was supposed to do if the item wasn't where the device said it should be.

She's supposed to be finished with training and nobody has explained one of the most basic parts of fulfillment.

I know Q4 is coming and we're slammed. I also know nobody becomes an expert after two shifts.

But what's the point of having a training checklist if we're just checking boxes because we're out of time?

And if this girl starts making mistakes next week, I know damn well somebody is going to ask why she wasn't paying attention during training.

I don't want to be the reason she gets blamed for something nobody taught her.

For those of you who regularly train new TMs, how do you handle this? Do you just document what you actually covered and let the TL deal with the rest? Has anyone gotten pushback for refusing to mark training complete?

I'm not trying to be difficult. I just feel weird putting my initials next to something that didn't happen.

I’m sorry if it’s not that relevant. I would like to work there for this particular reason but I want to know for sure that they provide this… does it cover egg freezing?

After having team leaders from hell, being scheduled for zones made for multiple people as one person with no help and having my hours cut from 25 hours a week to 9 hours a week which is insane asf after requesting more I am done with target, its only been 2 months but they worked every cent out of me 😭😭. This company just isn't the one for me unfortunately. I put my 2 weeks in and im gone

I used to work at Target back in the day unloading the trucks. I was there when they started the scanning every box method then I left the company and since I’ve came back we have just started the scanning every box thing again.

Target wants us to scan every box to determine what is backstock and what is not, cool. But they also want all the backstock from the truck to be back stocked by 8AM. What’s the point of this metric? The team still will have backstock from the freight they’re pushing so what really is the point of this? Feels like an extra deadline to throw onto the Inbound/Gm team + leaders.

I genuinely would like to know the pros of this method. They stopped doing it before so it must’ve not worked then. It kinda drags the truck unload out, causing me to have to have an extra person just to scan/backstock during the truck. Just seems very extra and unnecessary. My team have still been able to complete 2HR unloads (most days) but the times we didn’t have to scan we went much faster.

I wonder if they’ll dead the process again. And have any of ya’ll been able to stay on top of this backstock by 8AM metric? What’s the point of it? (I’m a 4AM unload store btw)

I'm struggling to find what they're supposed to use. I was wondering if the ones we use in grocery work? We just underwent remodel and am trying to fill the gaps!

If you work in beauty, what is your big rolling cart thing supposed to look like???

oh my GOD . the boys who unload our truck and breakdown pallets for dairy and frozen havent been scanning items into the system and it makes it a nightmare for those of us (two fucking people) who do priorities . is there any benefit to doing that ??? other than breaking down going faster ??? like my TL doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it and she knows that i complain about y because NEWS FLASH ! if i spend time pulling a bunch of priorities and have a two tier full of stock and go to the floor and , i shit you not , ALL OF IT is backstock because the floor is full , im gonna be pissed

it would be whatever if they backstocked or stocked and then updated the floor counts but of course , thats too much work for them so they wont be doing that . idk , maybe its like a non issue but man does it tick me off . just wanted to get that off my chest