Alright, so here are a few things I have gathered from my past work expriences:
1. Old Navy Employees= 20% off pants, 30% tops (sometimes 50% off denim if you filled out a monthly 5 question quiz and got your manager to sign off on it)
2. Kohl's Employees= 15% off everything
3. Generally All Movie Theater Employees= Free Movies (depending on how many movies you get to see for free depends on how many hours you worked that week)
So how is that Target only offers ( Which a bigger corporation then the above mentioned put together) it's employees a 10% discount. And yes if you happen to have a Redcard, it amounts to 15% off. However that just means you are getting the tax and maybe a few cents off (aside from big items like TV's and electronics, generally those were worth the discount). Just doesn't seem like much of a discount, and I am sure this has been brought up before, but thought it would be a good time to bring it up again, considering what all Target has done just in the past year. I remember there were those couple of occasions in my two years with Target, that we had employee appreciation week.
In which there was a letter/sign on the time clock from the CEO saying "For working so hard as an employee, take an extra 10% this week". I first thought, wow 20% off my entire purchase for a whole week that sounds great, right? Eh not exactly; when running the numbers and doing some basic math, I found out that it was not an additional 10%, well okay in a way it was, but it was 10% of 10%!!!!
I will admit that I am going to miss my AT&T business class discount that Target gave me, but I shall survive. When at my new job, they were going over employee information. When they got to a certain part in their speel, I said to myself "oh so that's what perks and benefits look like, I had almost forgotten" lol.
Anyways enough of a rant. I wanted to make this thread fun, and by that I will ask the question; if you could control benefits and perks, what type of discounts would you give to employees?
1. Old Navy Employees= 20% off pants, 30% tops (sometimes 50% off denim if you filled out a monthly 5 question quiz and got your manager to sign off on it)
2. Kohl's Employees= 15% off everything
3. Generally All Movie Theater Employees= Free Movies (depending on how many movies you get to see for free depends on how many hours you worked that week)
So how is that Target only offers ( Which a bigger corporation then the above mentioned put together) it's employees a 10% discount. And yes if you happen to have a Redcard, it amounts to 15% off. However that just means you are getting the tax and maybe a few cents off (aside from big items like TV's and electronics, generally those were worth the discount). Just doesn't seem like much of a discount, and I am sure this has been brought up before, but thought it would be a good time to bring it up again, considering what all Target has done just in the past year. I remember there were those couple of occasions in my two years with Target, that we had employee appreciation week.
In which there was a letter/sign on the time clock from the CEO saying "For working so hard as an employee, take an extra 10% this week". I first thought, wow 20% off my entire purchase for a whole week that sounds great, right? Eh not exactly; when running the numbers and doing some basic math, I found out that it was not an additional 10%, well okay in a way it was, but it was 10% of 10%!!!!
I will admit that I am going to miss my AT&T business class discount that Target gave me, but I shall survive. When at my new job, they were going over employee information. When they got to a certain part in their speel, I said to myself "oh so that's what perks and benefits look like, I had almost forgotten" lol.
Anyways enough of a rant. I wanted to make this thread fun, and by that I will ask the question; if you could control benefits and perks, what type of discounts would you give to employees?