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    Anyone quit Target for much better retail stores (Macy's, Kohls, & Primark), and even better opportunities like for pursuing jobs in teaching

    Sometimes when Target is attached to a mall the stores in the mall will give each others employees a discount I know they did this in Indy.
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    Price Increases

    Yes but you waste a whole page of 30 blank labels just to print one label.
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    22 years and still breathing

    I retired 3 yr ago, was at Target 33 years! Pay wasnt fantastic, but I stayed because of the health insurance, TM discount, 401k, pension, etc, plus I enjoyed the job. Im getting $500 every month from Target on top of my social security and the part time job I have now :) I dont know if they...
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    Who can fire you?

    Thanks to all who answered! I waited it out till the offending etl was gone, retired a few years later and all is well! Enjoying my pension and 401k and social security! In the over 30 years I worked there and hundreds or thousands of team members I worked with, there were only 3-4 people that...
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    Archived Quitting Due to Modernization

    Even if you can afford the COBRA rates there is a time limit, Im pretty sure you can only keep the COBRA insurance for 18 months so you might as well find some type of insurance as soon as you retire.
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    Archived Why Do You Stay?

    Im retired now but my hours always got cut every spring for years. 2018 was the worst ever. The only way I survived was my wife works and gets 40 hours. But if it was just me I could never have made it and would have looked for another job. My pay was never that great I only stayed because of...
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    Archived Wage increases to $15 hour!!

    Sorry my mistake, I now make $12.22 after my last raise. Still not much for the seniority.
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    Archived Wage increases to $15 hour!!

    Ive worked at Target over 25 years and only make $11.75 ...my annual pay has gone down every year the last 3 years due to getting less hours each year, even though I got small "hourly" raises my yearly pay went down.
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    I'm Lost! How to Check Your Schedule Online

    The problem is, sometimes they change our schedule in the computer after its posted on the wall. then they "forget" to call and tell us that it got changed. Thats why I check it every night, at least when the system "works"
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    I'm Lost! How to Check Your Schedule Online

    Whats the latest info on how to check your schedule from home? I called the help desk a few weeks ago and they said Nov. 2 it would work but it doesnt yet. I have been checking my schedule with my smart phone for a year but a month ago I could not access it any more. Tried it from my home...
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    Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

    Frozen turkey question: Turkeys come in already weighed, example: they have a tag that says 79 cents a pound, turkey weighs 10 pounds, so price is $7.90 But this is the sale price and they are not on sale right now so before we put them out we have to re-weigh them, put a new tag on that says...
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    Archived Backup cashier

    If someone were to ask me what I hate about my job, I would say its not the pay, not the hours, not the people I work with, it's that damn walkie talkie screaming at me every few minutes "BACKUP CASHIERS TO THE FRONT!!!" I work at the other end of the store from where the registers are and it...
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    MEGATHREAD $9 minimum wage starts soon!!!

    Walmart did raise wage to $9.00 but they also say it will go up to $10.00 by February next year......so will Target match that too and we will get another raise next year?
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    MEGATHREAD $9 minimum wage starts soon!!!

    I was capped last year and got no raise, this week I got a 3% raise, not great but better than nothing!
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    MEGATHREAD $9 minimum wage starts soon!!!

    Im not holding my breath......Im a former specialist who makes $11.25....my pay was "capped" when my position was eliminated and I have not gotten a raise for over 5 years.
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