An incredibly weird and snarky place to work. Having worked on my own for quite sometime, I was offered a part-time job here, and decided to take it. I was mostly indifferent to the mixed group that I worked with. Favoring a few over the others, but hey, that's my right, and I'm not interested in a career with Target. I found the female management staff to be inexperienced, and actually kind of immature. Again, I was mostly indifferent to the staff, these were not people I would normally socialize with, but I worked hard, as fast as I could. If that wasn't fast enough, I'd be the first to agree I'm not a very good stock boy. Thats not how they work at Target. Their comments are snarky and veiled. bordering on sexual harassment at times, but that's nearly impossible to prove. Anyway, they won't provide specifics about your work performance, because they know they want you to do what can't be done. Basically turn an overnight train wreck, into Macy's elegance, for peanuts. So, tonight, the setup started with ETL Claire, posting last nights workplace schedule. I looked at it, didn't notice the date, I mean the least management can do is provide up to date information. They have all day to place the current schedule in place. So I positioned myself, on the floor, instead of on the slightly more difficult "line" in the backroom. Then the fix was in. Claire would whisper over the P. A. for me to show up in back on the line. Its almost impossible to understand the staff normally, since they mumble into the microphone, I didn't hear her. OK, that make is look like to a couple of hotheads back there, that I'm avoiding them, or the line. Not so. Finally Chris, the overnight manager, finds me on the floor, and says I have to talk to Claire, NOT that I'm scheduled to work on the line. (So Chris is in on the fix too. Earlier, I had offered to show him some architectural concepts to pass along to management, his retort, in front of all the staff was " No, I want to keep my job". (So today, he's gloating about his $213,000 sales today alone at the store - Madison West-, as if he had anything to do with it. Basically, they feel
Target can do anything they want to)) So I ask Claire specifically, not knowing that she had replaced last nights schedule with tonight's new schedule, what specific characteristics make it desirable for me to be called onto the line, since there was a "light" truck delivery anyway, and since they don't seem to like anything I do anyway. She said, look at the schedule in her usual petty snarky manner. I could see the setup immediately, and told Chris, simply I don't want to work with Claire on subsequent nights....(period) Chris called me back to his office later, presumably after chatting with "good ole" Wisconsin boy made good ($50,000/yr guy Rye), the store manager. I was fired, terminated, all sorts of claims of complaints from staff galore cited, that I was totally unaware of. If there wer so many complaints, why was I kept on, in a temporary position anyway? The collusion continued though. Anika personnel manager, pulls out an income tax form, and alludes to the fact that she will not Direct Deposit my final check, instead she will mail it (? wha). Not good, and weird that Direct Deposit is disrupted, and even weirder that Anika (HR manager) doesn;t know the policy regarding final check, and whether it will be direct deposit, or thrown in the garbage can. I told her specifically, that I see no reason to change the direct deposit arrangement, and she has my correct mailing address. Leave it as a direct deposit, unless policy prevents final check to be a direct deposit. Returning home, via $30 dollar taxi ride, which I'm sure will be deducted from my paycheck) I complained to the largely useless "TARGET INTEGRITY" hotline. What do you guess will happen to the final paycheck this coming Friday Sept 2? They already left out, "Oh the timesheet was off" two days pay last paycheck, and seem to fairly glib and flippant about pay matters, as it is. Don't work here, you can buy things here cheap if you want, its to your benefit, and better if you can get the stuff even cheaper. I'm beginning to see why some gruesome mass murders have occurred in or near shopping malls. The environment, propagated by cheap and petty staff, make the mall experience total shit. The chasm, between the home office in Minneapolis and retail "outlets", couldn't be greater. The home office may as well be in China, in fact it might be. Everything from rubber bands and balloons (can't the U.S. make cheap rubber bands and balloons), to shoes , shirts, bedsheets, everything sold at Target, (except shampoo) is made in China. I think the Chinese deal there, was China agreed to make shirts and shoes and everything cheap, only if they could have the whole market, including rubber bands, shoe laces, - anything. read more
