Hey! I’ve been employed at my Small Format store (also known as a “City Target”) for about 4 months now. In my time that I’ve been with my store, they’ve been desperate for staff and hours. Multiple times I’ve came in multiple hours early to support and my attendance is great. I primarily work/train up-front and as well as some GM.
Last month we had multiple people quit and actually some terminations - my hours went up when this happened. So, of course, they have been hiring some new people. But all of these people work GM, on the floor - we have very minimal people up-front for some reason. And I’ve expressed this to our ETL (that we share w/ other Small Format stores). They understood the annoyance of being the only one working Guest Services, only one monitoring self-checkout (we are fully self-checkout), and the only one doing drive-up. If we have a drive-up we have to leave all of up-front unattended and run to the parking garage below the store and run back up. Even while helping guests at Guest Services, even if there’s multiple red lights at self-checkout. Not even sure if this is allowed or safe, but oh well.
But even with this acknowledgment of the extremely overwhelming nature and lack of safety at times, they’ve started CUTTING HOURS for some reason. Normally I have about 30 hours a week (around 3-4 shifts), but now I have around 12-15 hours with 1-2 shifts next week. This is also the same for **some** of my co-workers. TLs, AP, and TSS does not have any cuts though..
They know we desperately need more up-front support, we have the ability to schedule more people up-front, yet they’ve done the opposite and CUT HOURS throughout the whole store (GM & up-front).
Does anyone know why this could be? Target’s loss in money from Pride is where my mind goes too..? At this point my co workers aren’t making a livable income and are looking at other jobs with the hope Target will go back to our wanted hours so we don’t have to quit.
Help! I’ll be diligently watching this thread! I appreciate any knowledge or insight on this, thank you!
Last month we had multiple people quit and actually some terminations - my hours went up when this happened. So, of course, they have been hiring some new people. But all of these people work GM, on the floor - we have very minimal people up-front for some reason. And I’ve expressed this to our ETL (that we share w/ other Small Format stores). They understood the annoyance of being the only one working Guest Services, only one monitoring self-checkout (we are fully self-checkout), and the only one doing drive-up. If we have a drive-up we have to leave all of up-front unattended and run to the parking garage below the store and run back up. Even while helping guests at Guest Services, even if there’s multiple red lights at self-checkout. Not even sure if this is allowed or safe, but oh well.
But even with this acknowledgment of the extremely overwhelming nature and lack of safety at times, they’ve started CUTTING HOURS for some reason. Normally I have about 30 hours a week (around 3-4 shifts), but now I have around 12-15 hours with 1-2 shifts next week. This is also the same for **some** of my co-workers. TLs, AP, and TSS does not have any cuts though..
They know we desperately need more up-front support, we have the ability to schedule more people up-front, yet they’ve done the opposite and CUT HOURS throughout the whole store (GM & up-front).
Does anyone know why this could be? Target’s loss in money from Pride is where my mind goes too..? At this point my co workers aren’t making a livable income and are looking at other jobs with the hope Target will go back to our wanted hours so we don’t have to quit.
Help! I’ll be diligently watching this thread! I appreciate any knowledge or insight on this, thank you!
