reposting since my last review was taken down:
Worked here for over 5 years and recently left the company. Shoutout to all my coworkers who are overworked and underpaid.
This store has always had a reputation for poor management. Not from the leaders who are paid hourly, but from the salaried upper level management (ETL's + SD). They are all lazy, good-for-nothing micromanagers who stress out everyone below them. Long-term employees who knew the job inside and out were still constantly told exactly what to do on basic tasks as if we were brand-new hires. It made the job feel suffocating and signaled a complete lack of trust in the team. Upper management constantly breathed down our necks, telling us to do more and work faster with no incentive. They also loved raising starting pay for new hires while failing to give meaningful raises to those of us who had been there for years. They are responsible for the chronic understaffing. They often sat around in their offices and meeting room upstairs while barking orders over the walkie-talkie. They hate seeing you interact with your coworkers, even when you are still doing your job (too talkative? that's a write up). Upper management also loves putting on a big facade whenever corporate walks in; suddenly everyone is scrambling to look busy and follow every rule perfectly, only for things to go right back to normal the moment they leave. All of the employees, even the leaders, hate them and want to leave. I've known many great leaders who've transferred to other stores or left Target because of them.
It would be best if corporate came in and got rid of them all. It would probably get this place out of the hole it's in (consistently the worst performing store in the district btw). Wouldn't be surprised if this place closed in the future, especially when the Topanga store is just a couple minutes away. The company as a whole is going downhill and openly admits in a recent training video we were all shown that they are trying to repair their reputation, but this store is a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with that approach: toxic upper management, understaffing, and a total lack of trust in its employees. Recent dress code changes that force everyone into one specific shade of plain red shirts (no logos allowed) do nothing to improve the workplace or customer experience. On top of that, the new stringent attendance policy rolling out feels like yet another way to punish the already overworked team rather than address the real problems.
Much more I can talk about but this should suffice for a review. An extra star for my coworkers, thanks again to yall. I still absolutely do not recommend working here. read more