Recent content by doxiemama

I'm not sure this is any different in any other retail environment. Retail is hard on you. The hours are awful, the demands of the job range from tedious to overworked, you have to have a great deal of patience to work with a variety of personalities (both TMs and Guests), the pay is not all...

I didn't realize it was still around. I don't think we've done it for over a year. Lately, with our short staff, zoning at night is half-assed anyhow. Taking the time to do 4x4 means that nothing would ever get done.

My TL insists that we only have 3 of each size of any folded items in all of softlines. So, daily, we take the excess to the back. POG team comes out the next morning, brings it all back out and stacks everything so high it's all falling all over the place. Lately, we have nobody in softlines...

OMG Target...what were you thinking putting these with the pool toys???

I suppose it depends on who it's from (and what he earns for a living).

The word is that our jewelry department is getting an entire rehaul this week. I don't know what that means in terms of changes. It could just be a new plano. We still have locked cabinets although I don't think there is anything of value inside. But I have to admit that I've never really...

A guest called in today; she had received a 14K gold plated locket as a gift and wanted to know how much it cost. It was a weird question but I guess she was wondering whether the person who gave it to her was gifting something really meaningful (err...expensive) or not. It turned out that the...

The rule of thumb is that if you are going to get money back, file as soon as you are able to; if you think you are going to have to pay the IRS, then delay as much as you can. Just realize that if you can't pay, the IRS will work out a payment plan with you, but you will be paying interest on...

Thank you all <takes bow>. I shared it with my STL who apparently sang it to all of the ETLs on duty that evening. I told him he should have gotten on the walkie and serenaded the entire team. No such luck. If I don't have a future at Target, maybe somebody will hire me to write parodies.

Just saw the schedule for the week after New Year's - so went from 22.5 to 30 to 26.5 to 24 over the past month. I had changed my availability to 28-32 hours after Black Friday because I work two other jobs and was killing myself. So, overall, I can't complain. Most of the college kids are...

We do that, too. Some people do get the hint. I've dealt with a few that persist, even when you stalk them. It took a cop in the store coming up with me when I offered to help before one took off. The sad thing was that she had 2 kids with her and was very obviously using the kids to create...

To that new TM who had the gall to ask me during training "so...do you believe the gossip around here?". And then, she asked "so what's the story with ________? [insert name of TLOD] I can't get a feel for him but he seems odd." Really? Do you think I'm going to go anywhere near those...

I'm always folding messy shirts and sweaters - whereever. It may be at home, at other stores, at other Targets. If I see a t-shirt that isn't folded properly, my hands are just itching to get it done right.

(Sung to Sleighbells Ring) Guests complain Do you hear it? Who's to close? I guess that we're it. We're done with the zone, we want to go home, Waiting for the last of guests to leave. Grab that cart, get the reshop. Endless pulls - when will they stop? We keep stocking shelves Just like...