r/Target

It's very obvious when these people are talking about the fulfillment metrics that they don't know the first thing about statistics. For example one week my leader was talking to me and saying I had the best metrics out of the entire team. Next week they were complaining that I had a 3.5% INF and said "what happened you were so good last week." Oh my god it is almost like that's how statistics work. Also, if I can't find something in the store when I quite literally comb through every where it could be and ask a TL for help, that is out of my control.

Obviously someone from corporate is putting pressure on the store director, ETLs, and TLs, or because the store director wants a bonus in their paycheck, but don't yell at me when these things are out of my control.

The more I pick the better my metrics are going to be because it averages out to an expected value, who would've thought.

Don't open your mouth in my direction to talk about statistics if you don't know what you are talking about, thanks.

So I work as a cashier and I was checking these two women out, one was an older lady and I think the other was her adult daughter. They’re both wearing long skirts and have their hair in a braid. The vibes are fine at first and I’m humming like I usually do while scanning items. The older lady makes conversation saying that she hums at work too. I say it’s to keep me sane and make the day go faster, cheerfully of course. Then she says “OP, do you have the light of God in your life?” I’m really uncomfortable because the vibe completely shifted and now both of them are staring at me. I nonchalantly say “Yup, I do.”
The older lady goes, “Do you know his one true name?”
At this point I think they’re Jehovahs witnesses so I say, “Let me guess, you’re going to say Jehovah?” Bear in mind I don’t say this with any hint of sarcasm, I’m not trying to upset them. I do ask this because I’m trying to get a read on where this conversation is about to go.
And they go “No!”
Uh oh.
The younger one says, “It’s Yahweh,” in this odd, whispery accent. It took me a second to recognize what she was saying because of that, but I was like “Oh yeah, uh huh I’ve heard that before.”
At this point they’re staring so intensely at me that I go quiet and just focus on finishing the transaction. Right before they walk away the younger one goes,
“OP, now that you know his one true name, you will have NO EXCUSE on JUDGEMENT DAY!”
And then they left. I’ve gotten lots of people saying “Jesus loves you,” before leaving, or even once someone gave me an envelope with 20 dollars and an ominous message about the steps to salvation- but this was by far the most creeped out I’ve been in an indoctrination situation. I tried my best to appear unaffected while keeping engagement to a minimum without being disrespectful.
I think they may have been part of a very small specific sect but I don’t know which one.
Anyone else experienced something similar?

So I'm currently sick and have no clue if I'm gonna get worse tomorrow or get better tomorrow. I'm wondering if I call in sick, would I have enough sick hours to make up for me calling in?

>Live in Texas

>I have worked at Target for almost a year

>Haven't called off since March 7th

>Have worked 6 weeks total with 20+ hours in them

Am I eligible for sick pay and not get in trouble for calling out or no?

Not a huge deal but I'm just curious as to everyone else's stores. Our store director says that our "district" has decided that red vests are not allowed, dispute showing them in the slideshow during that huge meeting we had for the new dress code. I have gone to a lot of nearby stores, and seen TMs with red vests.

Are SDs or the "district" allowed to be more restrictive on dress code than what the new policy states? Do you have any weird rules at your store?

I HATE BTS!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DC HAS SENT US 280 STATIONARY REPACKS IN 4 DAYS!!! ITS NOT EVEN FEASIBLE TO SORT AND STILL ROLL CLEAN!!!

I just reread the workbench page on heat and it says to cool off in an air conditioned location. I interpret that to be if you don’t have a working AC then you are required to turn it off if it’s extremely hot

Similar to how it went down with Market Source, the rep told me they had a call earlier today and was told they will not be working out of Targets after July and will only do so at Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart. This one rep was pretty chill and nice to work with, but I won’t miss some of those pushy ones.

Any stories from today?

Southeast Michigan got hit hard by a storm that knocked out power in a lot of areas. My store's market team and several redundant fulfillment team members spent all day emptying the coolers into dumpsters. DTE (monopolized regional power company) has our restoration estimate for 11:30PM on Tuesday. Power went out around 7ish on Friday.

There's no way replacing all that product every time the power goes out is less expensive than the maintenance on a generator dedicated to keeping even just the main backroom freezer and the main backroom cooler powered. If power goes out and appears to be staying out, all hands to grocery, shove as much as we can in the freezer and cooler, respectively.

Am I just overestimating how much the entirety of cold grocery costs or underestimating the cost and upkeep of a generator? Pretty much anyone from metro Detroit can back me up, DTE sucks and their infrastructure goes down way more than it should for what we pay them.

Our store hasn’t received a shipment of bags in 2 months. By the time we get our standard 20 boxes we will be out again because we borrowed so many.

Corporate should be ashamed.

Store 1841

hi everyone. I have a question.

recently our SD said that no employees are allowed to sit in the Starbucks at any point in time on days they work, including off the clock. even if you buy something and are out of uniform. we still haven’t asked about stipulations such as coming in on off days.

my partner comes to work with me and does university work in the cafe while I am on the clock. under this rule, do I have to drag them outside to see me on break? am I suddenly allowed to break the “rule”?

the real question is: have any of your SDs done this? we are in california and this is the first time we’re hearing of this. they also just redid the entire cafe to make it pretty but infinitely less efficient, half the seating, and none of the broken machines have been fixed during the two month closure. the leaking ice machine flooding the backroom is begging to pay out some worker’s comp.

I don’t expect any responses to change the outcome because it is technically legal but I am simply curious if anyone has dealt with this. when we are off the clock & have bought things we are essentially guests so we are confused why we’d be banned.

Dear Guests who park in drive ups without an order because you’re a lazy piece of shit who deserves less…

Getting mad and knocking on the door doesn’t make you seem tough and your anger is not valid.

It’s reserved parking, FOR ONLINE ORDERS ONLY. And if you pick up an order, you usually move to another spot if you have to go inside.

And going inside just to double tap after shopping instead of picking it up at the service desk while spending damn near two hours parked in DU? We don’t like you either.

And always remember that for as mad as some of you get(mostly grown ass MEN), WE GONE DO IT AGAIN so get even madder.

Edit: the harmless flyers. New guy got a little too trigger happy with them.

The only other thing it could be is because I will hit my 10 year milestone in a week or so.

I'm not seeing it listed in the bonus list on workday but that might just be because it's a holiday weekend

Edit: checked pay stubs, it must be related to the 10 year mark, it's titled "Service Award Gross Up"