Archived Do you guys remember your first day working at Target?

[pzychopopgroove]

4 hour cashiering shift, 3 of which was spent shadowing veteran TM's on the register.

 

[TargetTeam]

I remember it was like yesterday I was being trained in Softlines and the guy was super nice made me feel right at home too bad he wound up quitting a year or so later he was a really good trainer!

 

[cihyfthedoor]

Backroom TM (at the time; Backroom TL now). It was Super Bowl Sunday, so there was f*** all to do, since it was slow (and we're a high volume store). Instocks wasn't scanning anything that day for some reason. So from 8am to 11am, my trainer could only describe how to pull batches, since there was nothing to pull. It was super clean, so there was nothing to pull, nothing to backstock, and nothing left over from overnight to push. So there was nothing to really do other than fiddle around with the PDA, describing how to do things. Don't really remember much of that particular day after that point. After 5 years, all the days just sorta mush together.

 

[XploitedFlow]

Early Morning Flow, had to be one of the smallest trucks in the history of our store, It couldnt have been more than 800 cartons with I'm guessing under 50 repacks. We were completely done with everything by 730, (Push, autofills, redline) I spent the rest of the day cleaning up in the backroom and learning the process of backstocking (Actual training!!!) the entire time everyone is mumbling that this NEVER happens, oh how they were right

 

[TiedAndDropped]

First day was Planorama to set up a new store. After welcoming speeches from STL and various ETLs we were divided into teams and assigned tasks. My team of four was handed a plano for a stationery aisle and told to figure it out and set the aisle. We did the best we could - how to correctly determine and measure shelf heights was a problem - as was most everything else. Backer paper seemed impossible to put up.

Much of the rest of the months before the store opened was spent fixing the worst of the mistakes we all made. It was a full year before everything was set pretty close to correctly.

 

[ImDaLOD]

July 11, 2001 was my first day. I was hired as a cashier...sat in training room 1 hour doing cd rom training...was then given a training booklet for the register and did that for an hour...shadowed a cashier trainer for 45 minutes...store got busy so after 45 minutes I went live on register beside my trainer and that was that!

 

[jmoo2k13]

My first day was spent in a room watching some dvds for a couple of hours, and then I got registered trained by watching a cashier for 5-10 minutes and then left to run the register. the first guest had a 2 coupons for every item, they didnt mention the guest could pair a target and manufacture's coupon. they finally got me off the register when they realized I was 5 minutes from meal compliance. I was hired for seasonal salesfloor team and I'm still there.

 

[Raiden]

All I remember was my 15 minute cashier training which was both awesome and awful. A couple of week later I remember getting my first red card while on backup and not knowing to do.

 

[ShoeQueen]

The store just was finished being built. The only thing inside was the aisle gondolas, no shelves though. I showed up in jeans and a red shirt because no one told me what to wear. I spent half the day figuring out how to read planograms beacause no one else knew how. Took an hour paid lunch because that's what the intern told us to do. He was really cute. The last half was walking around picking up garbage boxes with a friend from high school. I ended up never leaving at my end time and worked a ten hour shift. I was 16.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

The store just was finished being built. The only thing inside was the aisle gondolas, no shelves though. I showed up in jeans and a red shirt because no one told me what to wear. I spent half the day figuring out how to read planograms beacause no one else knew how. Took an hour paid lunch because that's what the intern told us to do. He was really cute. The last half was walking around picking up garbage boxes with a friend from high school. I ended up never leaving at my end time and worked a ten hour shift. I was 16.

Way to go!

 

[DMNDZ bruhh]

i also remember on my first day how awesome it was being on flow team, going in at 4am and leaving early. i thought to my self on my first day, "damn! i have the whole day to do whatever i want! this is the best position ever!" i had my whole day planned out after i woke up from my small nap...well i ended up waking up from my "small" nap around 5pm at night lmao.

 

[sigma7]

^ This was my experience with remodel lol. I think I did less during remodel even though I had so much more time during the day!

 

[antivibe]

i also remember on my first day how awesome it was being on flow team, going in at 4am and leaving early. i thought to my self on my first day, "damn! i have the whole day to do whatever i want! this is the best position ever!" i had my whole day planned out after i woke up from my small nap...well i ended up waking up from my "small" nap around 5pm at night lmao.

I can relate to this on a spiritual level.

When I started my cross training in plano I was all grumpy from the lack of sleep. I have a terrible time falling asleep so I would get an hour of sleep, at the most, each night. I would think to myself "wow now I can hang out with people, since I'm not closing!" Then I would get home and pass out on the couch for 10 hours, wake up and realize I might as well go back to sleep.

If I didn't pass out on the couch, I would pass out when hanging out with people. I would fall asleep in the car (passenger lol), the train, oh man even the movie theatre. Embarrassing.

 

[Nov17]

I remember my first orientation day,which lasted only like 2 hours with the vids and a short tour. The following day I was asked to start at 4 am on the line, which never happened again except one other time, my birthday of this year. Some guy taught me informally how to read box labels to find where they go, and put stuff out. I never got an in-depth explanation or any decent training, which may have impacted my performance a bit. I remember in the beginning how I sort of just drifted around to wherever there was work. Christmas stuff was being pushed out so everything was crazy... also I always heard my name being called over the walkies for me to take my lunch.

 

[Barcode]

I remember my first day all too well. Back when I was optimistic about working for such a cool place like Target.

...little did I know.....

 

[Deli Ninja]

I remember my first Softlines shift. The young woman who trained me was on her last day and we were dropped in shoes... Fortunately she was a good person and actually, you know, TRAINED me. I actually liked working in shoes for quite some time after that. Then our shoe specialist quit and the replacement didn't maintain shoes during the day. *facepalm*

 

[JuicedSoftball1]

I remember my first day.. The hardlines team lead at the time introduced himself... He walked to to an aisle showed me how to read the label. He said "this is a dpci" and to go from aisle to aisle covering the diamonds and pulling everything forward. I did this for about 3 months before I got more formal training. I never was told when to go on break I was never told to check in with anyone when I left. I just came in did my job and went home... Come my 90 day review time of should we keep him or let him go they almost fired me because nobody knew who I was besides like 2 team leads........ They saved me! over 10 years later I am still there!

 

[daninnj]

First day I was introduced to my trainer and then literally zoned the ice cream aisle for most of the shift. Then went to the cereal aisle and zoned that. Then the LOD came over and introduced herself. Next day I came in and he's not there and I spend 20 minutes looking for him. I was so confused.

He worked with me until last fall when he decided to walk out because he was going through some very serious family stuff and the store wasn't allowing him to take off. I've tried contacting him several times since then (as we did have a sporatic friendship outside of work and you know, I cared about him) but he has never responded, despite actually being on and posting happy things on Facebook when I messaged him or texted him. I would like to run into him one day and see what happens, if he would just ignore me or what.

Sorry, that's just been bothering me. Need sleep. Goodnight.

 

[OrangeFire]

Well I remember my first shift like it was Monday... because it was. I got there, I clocked in, I took some quizzes. After I passed my quizzes they stuck me at register to learn the register, so I learned everything, went through everything with the TL and went home. Today was my second day, and learned everything there is to know about carts, and did all that for like 5 and a half hours.

Maybe I'll update this on Saturday, after my next shift.

 

[thek8canine]

my first day i spent about 4 hours being trained learned how to do WIC checks, rebate checks, regular checks, price checks, how to make 5 dollar gift cards, and was then had the trainer watch over me for the rest of my shift, i think she was bored out of her mind. the next day i got put on the grocery side and was left to my own devices, i accidently let someone leave the store with 70 dollars worth of groceries because the credit card machine glitched up and my GSTL just laughed about it. the next day i got to hang out with the middle aged ladies on express and i also learned that some people get very protective over their favorite register

 

[mrknownothing]

and i also learned that some people get very protective over their favorite register

It didn't take me long to learn that one. One of our Red Card All-Stars believes that a specific register is "lucky" for getting Red Cards, so she refuses to let anyone else use it when she's working.

 

[antivibe]

Well I remember my first shift like it was Monday... because it was. I got there, I clocked in, I took some quizzes. After I passed my quizzes they stuck me at register to learn the register, so I learned everything, went through everything with the TL and went home. Today was my second day, and learned everything there is to know about carts, and did all that for like 5 and a half hours.

Maybe I'll update this on Saturday, after my next shift.

Welcome to Target!

I took all my quizzes on orientation; alcohol, spill, and electronics champion. They never got filed or something so I had to retake them this week, one year later.

 

[BackroomDayside]

7:00PM on Sunday during 4th quarter, I work in the backroom. and both of our midshifts called in that day so there was only me and one other guy. I work in a high traffic store, my trainer basically told me Heres this pda type in pull and go we have one hour.

 

[GlobalJ]

It was a hot summer day (90+ degrees). I was given some training on the register and cart pusher. The cart pusher broke down in the middle of the lot (facing downhill [only way to get the carts in]). But I did well and got all the carts in by hand.