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    Archived 7AM Fail.

    It is ridiculous. It took two days to finish the truck. When I came in the next day to do the abandons, half of it was from the truck. In prior years our HR people told the people being hired for truck that this was a great second job and they were right. Now the STL/ETL's are telling...
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    Archived Promotions: Aren't they supposed to talk about them when they come up?

    At our store, it was surprise to most of us that three people got promotions. Most of us didn't even know that they were even announced. Isn't it company policy to tell the team members when promotions come up?
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    Archived Where the budget for rewarding team members went..

    On 01-09-2013, the board got bonuses in the form of stock options. They gave themselves, in total, 186,889 shares for free for that one day and yes, they were for free. Since Target has started yet another massive share repurchase, those funds have to come somewhere. With an estimated...
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    Archived Guest Service and Front end: Use the iPad app to find the missing DPCI's.

    Just type the description of the product into the application and it shows a picture of what it finds & the DPCI. Here's how you do it... Search for the item at target.com Find the item on the screen and touch it (not in a bad way). When the item has been touched look at the right side...
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    Archived Newest Issue of Red: Distribution is not entirely wrong all the time

    My seething hatred of the black cauldron that is Distribution may be a tad misplaced. I never could see the logic in how they load up trailers, to me it seemed that they are doing it randomly. Now I see that there is a plan but it's just so outdated that it makes it appear that it is...
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    Archived Two of the most hilarious attempts to save payroll

    I really had to laugh when I found out about these were either being tested in my store or for some insane reason they decided to do them on their own. 1.) Get rid of research. Yes, you read that right. They apparently stopped researching large parts of the store in order to save...
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    Archived The Vibe is dead: Target is looking to hire 30% less seasonal this year over last.

    Read it and weep. It's nice to know that all of that training is completely useless to us now because we won't have time to create memories. What is the thinking that is going on up there? These are mixed messages at best and condescending at worst because they actually think they can...
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    Archived Our Target didn't donate anything to the local emergencies...

    Did the person they hired to make these not understand the concept of matter/volume? They are having us put gigantic items in spaces that are half the size they are supposed to be. That's after to we turn them sideways so that the front cover of the product can no longer be seen. Is...
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    Archived Our county is on fire. A cloud of smoke was in the store.

    Our county suffered a drought, thunderstorm and then the worst air quality we have ever seen. We have breached AQI scale in the past few days, a normal day is somewhere around 40 and we hit 800. The smoke was so bad that a cloud of it was in the store. Team members started to wear masks...
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    Archived My Pedometer says that I've walked 2,012,276 steps inside Target in the last year.

    Some interesting statistics: Distance wise, with a step length of ~2.75ft, I walked 1,048 miles inside my store. Ouch. Flow team w/ 4 hour shift: averages about 4,000 steps the first two hours of unloading a truck (As a bowler, on the line it is about 1,000). Cashier shifts tend to be...
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    Archived Target, Microsoft, and "Stacked Management"

    Pre '08 I remember Target raises and in general, being different. It was more about merit and less about "You should be happy with what you got because other people got a lot less." Then I was told that they were being pressured to have certain number of team members be 'O' and 'E' vs the...
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    Archived Finishing a truck in 2.5 hours is not a good thing...

    If they are going to want people to stay on. It is not worth getting up at 5AM to come to work for two and half hours, especially with gas prices the way they are right now. But beware at your store if this new process comes to your store. They started up a rather horrible new way of...
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    Archived "Please stop laughing, this is your review..."

    I love review time. I don't view it as an actual review. I view it as more of a performance. They have all the lines written and what they are going to say, you can get a pop or a snack before hand as well at ever increasing prices (BTW HR, if you want better reactions to team members, give...
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    Archived Inventory: Hindenburg to Titanic level of disaster

    If you are not done with your inventory this year, be afraid. Very afraid. When our inventory was done, the inventory people, whom God/Evolution blessed them with opposable thumbs which is the reason they were hired, were pulling everything out and counting them and then stored them in one...
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    Archived No more birthday cake?

    No more birthday cake is what came down from headquarters recently. Our store went a year without any kind of cake/snacks so that's not a huge issue but this just seems petty beyond reason.
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    Archived Health Insurance Benefits Video. If you thought the union video was awful...

    Anybody else see the video and think WTF? They actually compared getting health services, like going to the doctor, to buying a TV. The video said that the reason that medical costs were going up so fast was that people went to the doctor too often and that Target, by getting rid of the old...
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    Archived Stock - Is anybody getting anything for electronics?

    We have received a total of two camera's since Christmas. I find it sad that out of all the camcorders I have, I have one in stock. The SD card area is so bare that we are putting one card on each peg-hook to make it fill in better (doesn't work because people just buy one and you have to...
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    Archived Target's Forensic Lab... Anybody have any experience with it?

    Anybody have any idea or context about how professional they are?
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    Archived New Years Resolutions

    I resolute this year that I will become trained in one more area of the store, Guest Service or AP.
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    Archived Guest Survey: Does anybody know how they are counted?

    Does corporate do any weighing of surveys such as the same person over and over again vs. a one time complaint? Are the survey's analyzed for their word count or anything like that?
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