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Staples takes a stand, will close stores on Thanksgiving I can't imagine Target ever doing this, but I have a lot of respect for Staples for taking this step. I remember the two black Fridays I worked at Target as two of the most hectic days of my life, and having to work on Thanksgiving in...

When I got hired our STL was on indefinite LOA for illness. Sadly he passed away a few months later.

Little update: I work in software QA now. I get paid to find the bugs in websites before they go live, and I've actually been doing a lot of work for a company that hosts brand pages on Walmart's website :D. I've only been there about two weeks, but I like it so far. The learning curve took me a...

It happened so fast and the circumstances are pretty bizarre. I interviewed with another company two weeks ago. On Wednesday they got back to me with "sorry, we have selected another candidate." Earlier this afternoon though, they called again and said "we have some good news for you, call us...

In both scenarios, I was covering a break for the Electronics TM. I'm normally a Sales Floor TM, and both of these situations happened within 15 minutes of each other. 1. Guest is looking at flash drives. Comes up to me saying he found one where the ad sign says $7.99, but he scanned it at a...

The former chancellor at my alma mater was on undercover boss while I was attending the university. Made for a very interesting episode.

My store does not accept WIC. (We do take other kinds of food stamps though). Most people in the express lane seem to understand that the goal is to get in and out quick.

lol! we got ourselves a comedian here :D Although to be serious, last year we had Easter Sunday off. Our store was closed that day and everything.

I don't know who spit in your coffee, but I would say this is absolutely not true. I had an interview today where I used my Target experience to great effect. The interviewer was a young-ish guy slightly older than me who had previously worked two jobs in retail before starting in his current...

We've had these for awhile now. We actually got them shortly after Gregg left the company. It takes a bit to get used to, but now I'd think it was weird if we DIDN'T have mannequins.

At my store you can only call it the Cash office or the CO upstairs when you're in TSC. Over the walkie and on the floor it is referred to by its phone extension, 239.

I thought this thread was going to be about silly things we've heard over the walkie. "Sales Floor, do you copy?" (AA volume P-Fresh store) I have heard an ETL refer to the cash office as the "CO," upon which she received a stern lecture from the ETL-AP.

This actually happened to me the other day! They gave me a cashier shift (heaven knows why, I'm not desperate for hours, hate cashiering, and salesfloor is my main workcenter) and someone came through with a bottle of valerian root. When I scanned it, the printer shot out a receipt and said DO...

I go through phases. In the beginning I actually did enjoy it. But over time that has declined to what I'll call "tolerating it." It doesn't pay much, the ETLs micromanage, the work has gotten repetitive, and hours are hard to come by this time of year, but it beats not having a job. Sometimes...

This is not weather related, but about a week ago we had a SLTL 45 minutes late for work because someone was threatening to jump off a freeway overpass. Traffic was completely parked for awhile.