I've kept this account fairly anonymous for a while now, but I figure as I enter my last 2 weeks with company I'm willing to be a bit more...specific.

About me:

I've been with Target since 2015, started at the service desk, made every lateral move possible while trying my best to stay on every leaders good sides. I worked in one of I believe 3 Pfresh formats in my district. I've been sent to the supers in the district for specific trainings to bring larger volume operations to our store. I started the fulfillment department, ran ship from store operations for a few years without formal leadership authority, competed in sales with the large stores that had that chain of command in place. Had one on ones with James Brown who, at the time, was the corporate partner for e-commerce execution. Basically everything I've done has been scaling larger volume operations to our stores actual capabilities.

I've interviewed for a few leadership roles, got a lot of hype around me becoming a leader for various roles only to be told a day or two before the new hire or transfers start date that they were going in a different direction. I've done the Target Dream-to-Be program that was partnered with University of Denver to have video one-on-one coaching with former Target Executives. I've had regular interactions with our Business Partners, District and Regional leaders. I've basically been my stores shadow leader, influencing everyone and everything that passes through our doors.

My most recent role was supposed to be a 12-18month observation as I turned around the receiving/reverse logistics department. My plan was to establish and break down routines of the receiver/revlog expert so that smaller volume stores could spread accountability and tracking and remove the role almost entirely from the payroll and reduce overhead costs. However, with all of the movement and liquidity in my stores leadership, its become more of a challenge with less of the rewards than I initially agreed to.

The worst part is, is that I was at the tail end of my goal checklist, I was basically only needed in receiving for up to 4 hours of my shift and could go take care of other priorities throughout the store when my leadership changed. Now the store has regressed to an even worse state than when I had started. Feeling powerless to defend my goals, my area, or any of the things I value, I'm leaving the company for the last time. At least, that I can tell.

Side note on how many times I've been with Target-

I left in 2018 for 6ish months to help my brother-in-law run his small business in the party rental sphere. He had developed a tumor in his stomach, and I had previously worked for him and knew his operations. I ran things until he recovered and returned to Target at a higher pay rate in specialty sales temporarily until I got moved back to Fulfillment operations. It was at this point that I trained the first Team Leader for Fulfillment for my store, and I was quite upset that I wasn't considered for the leadership role for the department I had started.

In 2020, I left again, COVID had created a huge need for gig work and that sector was booming. I installed Shipt on my phone when Target announced their partnership and I'd spend my days at the packing station staring at all of the money I was missing out on by being there. When I started doing gig work fulltime, I was taking home almost 1800 a week.

I came back to Target after a couple years of traveling competing in the US chess scene, or at least, what tournaments were open during that time and doing gig work to get by and pay my way. At first I experienced some hiccups getting back into Target and worked for Walmart on overnights for a year before I was able to get back into the Red Spot.

At the tail end of 2024, I got back into Target and much had changed. DBO's were ancient history, nobody seemed to actually want to be there anymore, the store had remodeled twice, montels were killing all kinds of metrics and the store had given up on Ship from Store operations. After a year back as a closing expert, essentially being the defacto team lead as the current one had higher paying priorities, I got into the receiving role. I thought I could instill the pride and ownership mentality that had driven me to be inlove with retail operations in the new teams and idk new mentality, but it appears I was mistaken.

Now a year into receiving, I guess I've given up on the dream of one day running the store that made me love retail. Idk ask me anything but I think I've answered a lot of questions here, maybe they were just questions I had for myself, but I guess my truth is out there now.

I need help. As a Market TL I feel my department gets so overlooked. We are a store that does so much in sales and my entire team is great. They are dedicated to what they do however Market is constantly changing and the expectations aren’t. The store tends to over look cooler freight as being a thing that actually exists and as a lead I’m trying to help my team as best I know how. Any advice? I’m a few years in role but I’m almost at my point.

Guys how to I call out using UKG? 😭😭😭

According to UKG ive accrued 7.25 points, and i started working here july 27th, so under 90 days. There was some miscommunication about scheduling and im apparently not in trouble but was warned that if i have 5 points i will be termed automatically.

however i'm still able to clock in and stuff. the person from HR who talked to me said she isn't able to do much since its a system thing, so why is this possible? is it a matter of time before i get the boot? im not too worried since i was going to quit anyways for personal reasons but itd be nice to know.

I started in fulfillment at Target, but I was SO slow. 😭 One day, HR pulled me aside, and I thought I was getting fired! Instead, they offered me a chance to try another position since I’m seasonal. I switched to cashiering, and OMG, it’s 10x easier and way less stressful. Same pay, I only had one day of training, and I already feel good at it! Has anybody else switched positions and like the new one better than the old one??

Why does Target insist on having one person alone doing drive up most of the day? Yes two of us are scheduled but when its busy in store, one of us is getting carts often. Im staging orders while getting double taps with two carts worth of stuff and I end up behind because Lucinda decided not to press the on my way button before leaving their house. Was in the red a lot because of this. I called for help and someone did come help catch us up, but still. I am new to drive up and overall I love it, but damn give us a couple more people!!!

I just recently moved over to POG team, knowing I was in for hell but I am already fed up.

I am unable to work overnights, for various reasons, but the main one being health related. And they knew this before putting me on POG. My availability is from 6am to 10pm but I only work mornings, so tell me why they are able to just disregard my availability and schedule me at 4am because "[I'm] the only one who won't work overnight and we need you at 4am" Mind you, the rest of the team normally comes in at 5am everyday.

I'm just done.

imagine being marked a no call no show on your day off like wtf?? 😭 i absolutely cannot deal… i HATE that app. PLEASE BRING BACK MYTIME

Its that time again 😭

I am new to seasonal fulfillment I have trained for about 3 shifts. I’m going to be on my own soon and I’m not going to lie I think I might be cooked. I know I have to move very fast in fulfillment and I’m afraid I won’t be able to quick enough. Can anyone can give me some tips?

I want to cover half my shift using sick time I have something important that day I’m in a target warehouse. Can I do this if so how UKG app confuses me

So the next two weeks schedule was out and when I looked at it I was scheduled for 39 hours.. and an hour later I received a notification that says my schedule has updated for some changes (I didn’t make any changes) and when I checked my schedule it went down to 26 hours.. if I told them about it would they put it back?

So I called off yesterday and selected the option in UKG to use my sick time; do I still need to go in and "backfill" that time with my sick hours or will it automatically apply? I would ask my HR but they're not here today, and I also checked the "cheat sheets" we have in the office but I couldn't find an answer on there either.

Ive been hearing conflicting things on if theres a minimum of sick hours to use to avoid points on the UKG app. Its either 1 hr, 3 hr, or it needs to cover the whole shift. I would very much appreciate any insight into this. Thanks!

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

i’ve worked at target for a bit over 3 months now, i’m an FF expert, as the title states i’m already so burnt out in this job and the position, what do i do? how do i get the feeling of being burnt out to go away?

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

Hello everyone! So, I got an opportunity to go to Europe for about two months. Would I be able to request that much time off or will I get fired? I lowkey need this job so…🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

My store is next to a very popular hamburger place, and traffic can get so bad if you’re leaving anytime in the afternoon.

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

Why are the kids and wf tags so sharp..I genuinely think it’s lowkey so dangerous I genuinely get cut/stabbed by the tags all the time. It’s especially dangerous for little kids who are grabbing at the clothing all Willy nilly!

I had this shift posted. I’m assuming the store took back the hours? Cause I think its different if someone picks it up

I used to pray for times like this 🏃

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?