To that one Team Member I - ARCHIVED

Which sucks because pretty much the only metric that Target seems to care about is on those who make the least amount of money possible. How in the hell is that even right?

To the b-word flow team member that chewed my butt off because I was pulling stuff that you continued to back stock the wrong way, you're an idiot and annoying as hell. I have 60 minuets to pull CAF pulls. I don't have time every freaking hour to toggle between RF apps in both the CAF batches and STO and SUBT app. I mean seriously, learn how to back stock the right way or get the fudge out. And if this is such a problem for you, go talk to the STL about me and see how that goes.

There is a way that this won't happen. You're gonna have to step up, swallow some of your pride, and make a sacrifice.

At 2pm, I had about 35 different DPCIs to pull in both the MEAT and MTCL batches in the CAFs.
I was smart and saved those for last. It took me 20 minutes to pull them and back stock them the right way.
The 2pm CAF pulls were the last big meat pulls of the day because you weren't in meat messing shit up. And I also fixed your mistake.
Oh, I also loved you basically said you were going to tattle tell on me too.
You're just mad that you come in 6am or 7am now and have to deal with guests and also don't get your extra dollar anymore.
I am honestly thrilled every day that is not an FDC day because I likely won't have to deal with you bitching to me about pulling everything you just back stocked the wrong way. I am also thrilled on FDC days when you leave at around 3pmish.
When I get in the backroom, I'm saying in my head "just a few more hours and flow team will be gone".

People like you are why I hate working at Target. Be glad I'm not in charge.

Oh and you know how you were bitching about the meat freezer being all messy. Well guess what? I back stocked everything in there tonight before I left. How do you like that? Seriously, STFU.

TTOTM: Why why why why WHY would you pull backstock out of a PTM aisle? WHHHHHY? You were just doing ad set. You had one job. One! How did you mess up so bad? Ugh.

To that one ETL:

I'm sad to hear that you're leaving. You are very energetic and you help keep us on flow team motivated without resorting to threats and without copping a nasty attitude. You trust your flow team, and let them work independently in whatever way suits them best as long as they get the job done right. The degree of respect you've shown me and the rest of the team is refreshing, especially considering our last two ETLs treated us like complete shit. I know I speak for the whole team when I say that you will be missed, and we wish you luck and happiness in the future. Thank you!

To the team lead that coached me because I asked a backroom team member what time they were leaving, are you kidding me?

I mean what the hail? Are we in the 3rd grade here? And then you said it's none of my business. Of course, it's business. It affects my workload. My workload doubles as soon as my helper leaves. I need to know what time the helper is leaving so I can plan and ahead and be efficient. And no, I'm not going to look at the schedule because hours are always changing. If I come in at noon, and my helper who usually leaves around 230pm comes up to me and at like 130pm and says "hey, I'm leaving early now", that's very unprofessional and rude. Why not have some common courtesy and come to me earlier and say "hey, I am letting you that I will be leaving early today and this is the time I will be leaving"?

And another thing, if I get lectured for asking a question to a team member, why don't you lecture the back room team member that left 15 minutes early today and did not help me finish the grocery side of the 5pm CAF pulls? I mean, this guy walks past me and says" hey, I'm going to take a break and then clock out" and I reply with "well, have a good one". I hate when team members do that.

If you're gonna do that, just clock out early and the fudge out of the store. That is so rude and unprofessional.

I swear I work in one of the worst back rooms at a Target in America. Just terrible. Awful management and completely incompetent.

One last thing, this was my reaction in my head when I was getting lectured for asking a team member what time they were leaving

To the opening LOD: If the STL was willing to extend shifts despite this month being horrible for hours, there's no reason why you couldn't call in one or two people to help push the late FDC truck. They were still pushing when I arrived in the evening.

To the closing softlines team: There were two people scheduled in hardlines. One was pushing FDC and I was back-up cashing. There were probably four or five of you and only one of you could be bothered respond to back-up instead of chatting along the wall of RTW? Shame on all of you. If it were up to me, you would each get one 5:45 cashing shift on the next schedule.

To that TM at another store:
Learn how DPCIs work and listen to the guest when they are asking for a DIFFERENT SIZE of an item! Also, maybe you should have called my store instead of having the guest do it, to try and find the TM from my store that called yours to put the item on hold that you people apparently never looked for!
I swear, this store is so bad about not actually looking for items when we ask them to put it on hold as well as sending guests our way without calling us to confirm that we have the item. I get that our stores are less than 15 minutes apart, but what the hell?

Softlines Ninja said:

To that TM at another store:
Learn how DPCIs work and listen to the guest when they are asking for a DIFFERENT SIZE of an item! Also, maybe you should have called my store instead of having the guest do it, to try and find the TM from my store that called yours to put the item on hold that you people apparently never looked for!
I swear, this store is so bad about not actually looking for items when we ask them to put it on hold as well as sending guests our way without calling us to confirm that we have the item. I get that our stores are less than 15 minutes apart, but what the hell?

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To be fair, not all sized items use the same pattern of DPCIs (at least not for softlines, hardlines is pretty consistent). However, this information can be found in Item Locate on any register.

To the big wig in charge of how many hours we get, thanks for so many days off. Those 30-40 hour weeks were starting to ruin my life. My bills were all paid, but eh, this 15 hour thing is better, somehow, so thanks!

To the tm who said the store closest to us was "so bad" "gross" "dirty" and "disgusting" whyyy are you so loyal to this store? Our store sucks and it's okay to acknowledge it. Also, that other store is clean and the zone is fucking impeccable. I was amazed and impressed and jealous. In that moment when I walked in, I understood why some people Stan for Target. Of course they can't possibly Stan for my store, but that store was worthy! I walked in and just on the first side, I saw more team members on the floor than our store has for the entire salesfloor during the day.

To the etl log, come on, man. I get that you want your flow team to be faster and what not, but they're working 4 hour shifts first of all. Second, when they're just dumping things willy nilly and not backstocking, dayside has to fix it in order to get our work done. And, we only have 4-5.5 hour shifts, too!! We don't have time for this shit. Stop the madness. If there's 3 of them in one area, at least one of them should have a pda. They're not good at guessing... or reading labels.
Backstory: the baby gondolas are always just.. no. I always have to backstock and zone when they leave. Or attempt to in my short shifts. But lately, even the hanging clothes are nuts. There's a million of all the baby circo graphic Ts and I found multiple groups of about 5-7 of some of the t-shirts spread throughout the toddler area. I've been finding rtw in active, girls in rtw, rtw in girls, etc. etc. It's driving me crazy.

re: red card rockstar. They might be getting RCs but I'd bet money that their survey scores are in the toilet.

Jill of All Trades said:

re: red card rockstar. They might be getting RCs but I'd bet money that their survey scores are in the toilet.

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Always wondered, what's considered "good" survey scores at other stores?

Average week I get 12-15 survey responses, never had a negative, but do get probably a neutral every two weeks or so. I never ask guests to fill out the survey whereas our GSTL is constantly badgering guests to tell Target he's "Super Awesome". Amusingly I always have more surveys filled out than he does. I know I usually get the most of anyone at our store, but I imagine that's just because I work at the service desk more than anyone else and have no idea how our #'s compare to other stores.

To the 2 tm's that went over the TL and ETL to STL because you weren't being asked to stay or work on a non truck day to finish truck. Even after complaining you still never stay. People that stay are asked to come in the next day. Phone calls will not be made to you when enough people volunteer. Shut the fuck up!

To that one cashier who has probably been here longer than the store has been in existence:

So a newish cashier hopped on your register while you were on lunch. Seriously...she just came in for the day, she didn't know you were on that register...and you still had 20 minutes left of your lunch! I'm fairly certain yelling at her was unnecessary. You don't own the register. Get over yourself!

To whomever did this...

To that former team member who was seasonal last year. Please excuse me while I stifle my laughter when you asked if we were hiring yet for seasonal.

SoftlinesSquirrel said:

To that former team member who was seasonal last year. Please excuse me while I stifle my laughter when you asked if we were hiring yet for seasonal.

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That bad?

to the starbucks girls. Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you all, you lazy worthless zits of the ass of society please accept these Glocks with one round each, form a big circle and on my count cap the person standing to the right.

Nauzhror said:

SoftlinesSquirrel said:

To that former team member who was seasonal last year. Please excuse me while I stifle my laughter when you asked if we were hiring yet for seasonal.

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That bad?

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They were only a teen in high school which explains the no wok ethnic and the fascination to stand around and gossip with any friends. Last straw was when they were found loafing around in household and told to go home then and there. Not long after that they were banished into the land of cashiering for the rest of their tenure before being let go.

Dear Softlines: please put the right size shirt in the right place.Getting real tired of doing your zoning for you before I can start researching.

Circle9 said:

Dear Softlines: please put the right size shirt in the right place.Getting real tired of doing your zoning for you before I can start researching.

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Dear Softlines: Please do work at all, let alone zoning your assigned areas and responding to back-up. Getting real tired of seeing you chit-chatting at the fitting room and on the back walls when all of hardlines spends 3/4 of our shifts at the lanes and your side of the store looks worse than ours.

TTOTM: woman's shoes buy 1 get 2nd pair 50 percent off. It was a shit show over there Monday. Today I had 2 flats of shoes off the truck. Was not looking forward to pushing them, at all. Someone did a super zone. Thank you thank you thank you

Dying Sun said:

to the starbucks girls. Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you all, you lazy worthless zits of the ass of society please accept these Glocks with one round each, form a big circle and on my count cap the person standing to the right.

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WTF?!

Dying Sun said:

to the starbucks girls. Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you all, you lazy worthless zits of the ass of society please accept these Glocks with one round each, form a big circle and on my count cap the person standing to the right.

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What the hell is your problem!

the girls at Starbucks it looks like

Dying Sun said:

to the starbucks girls. Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you all, you lazy worthless zits of the ass of society please accept these Glocks with one round each, form a big circle and on my count cap the person standing to the right.

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Sounds like somebody was served decaf instead of regular coffee. But seriously, what the hell?