Recent content by Obeast

I'm electronics, not Guest Services (maybe this doesn't count?), but I had a guy attempt to buy an Xbox One (or Xbone for those nerdy/gamer TMs out there) with super fake (they didn't even feel like real money) $100 bills. I ended up calling the LOD at the time (who is our STL and a pretty tall...

To those guests (especially annoying/terrible teenagers) who love to mess with the demo Bluetooth speakers from an Electronics TM... 1) Please turn them up as loud as possible, forcing me to have to not only hear the same three or four songs for the billionth time, but talk over it when...

I haven't heard of the brand until today when I was assisting a couple fellow TMs in finding the home for one of her brand's beach towels in seasonal (I'm Electronics, so I'm obviously in the area :P), and one of the TMs was telling us that she heard people were actually doing this. Then, she...

I had something like this happen to me a couple weeks back. Since I'm in Electronics, I'm pretty good friends with the Target Mobile people, and one day a couple/few weeks ago I was ringing up a female guest who was with a guy (I dunno how he was related to her, but I automatically assumed it...

I dunno if every Target is like this, but at my store, we don't do pre-orders over the phone. We do sell 'reservation cards' for some games (mostly the big name titles like the Call or Duty games) that you buy for $1, and it guarantees that we will have a copy on hold for you to pick up within a...

I've never done that myself, but one of my former co-workers did that for about a month before quitting Target to focus on school and his other/current job (which I guess gave better hours than our store did). If you have the time and energy to do both, then I say do it since it'll be a few...

Is this done with a male voice and not the usual female voice for the other automated/button pressed announcements? I've heard that at my store a lot and always assumed it was a fellow TM making sure his walkie was working properly. :confused:

Or, better yet, if the item has a clear box that you can clearly see what the item actually looks like, they will open the box anyways to make sure their eyes aren't deceiving them. This is especially bad with smartphone cases just because people want to check if their phone will fit even though...

I will never understand extreme couponers. I'm sure a lot of it is an addiction thing like drugs, alochol, gambling, etc. where they love seeing the results of getting $200 worth of shampoo (who seriously needs $200 worth of shampoo unless you're prepping for nuclear war or the apocalypse in...

Given how I got to Electronics (I went from Hardlines/Cashier to pretty much all Electronics after one of the main Electronics guys left our store), I think that's a pretty big jump given that you probably haven't been trained in zoning aisles and all the other main salesfloor stuff. There is a...

I kinda mentioned the site (not by name, but saying something like "this one message board for Target employees") to one of my co-workers when I was asking him something and I mentioned reading something on here about the topic, and he shushed me right away and pretty much said to never mention...

Last night, my STL, who was closing LOD, had a post-closing huddle to let us closing TMs know about some of the changes coming up. Apparently, they're gonna score each store by the number of REDCards they get each week and have a threshold they need to meet every day, week, and/or month to get a...

While working at Target has it's moments, most of me says 'no'. Granted, it IS a retail job, the pay isn't super great, and you deal with some of the worst shoppers/guests who think the world revolves around them and they think they deserve everything and then some. But, my fellow TMs and even...

This has nothing to do with getting REDCards at work, but are the debit REDCards charges going through faster now? Normally, it would take a few days after a transaction for it to clear. But, now I have pending charges on my credit union account from yesterday and the day before that will go...

To the Target Mobile "TMs" (quoted because they're contracted out from another company and don't work for Target directly), thank you guys for helping out in Electronics when you guys aren't busy selling phones. I kinda wish we could help you guys with selling phones/contracts when you guys get...