So, I have no idea how to preface this, but I have never worked at a store like this in my 10 years of working retail jobs.
Without giving too much away, I live in one of the major three cities in the USA and work for a Target in said city. I started working for Target a few months ago, and without naming my department, I will say I have had nothing but a negative experience.
First, I was thrown right into work the same day as my orientation. I had experience with said department due to a past job. This was a red flag, but I figured maybe people had called off and they needed someone as a buffer. This lead to me closing said department by myself even though I had never worked for Target before, and hadn’t even had training because my orientation was the same day.
Coworker drama is at all time highs. There is constant drama over everyone who works at every department, and said drama spills out into basically every single department even if you are not in said department. SDs and other district managers are at our stores on a regular basis, and we recently had two people all out and quit. I have personally had ETLs tell me that I need to do more to keep the store going, and have had the DM for my department come over and yell at me unprovoked.
I have had coworkers complain on a constant basis when things aren’t done to the standard they want, whether or not it is done correctly. This has caused a lot of stress in my personal life, as I am always wondering what terrible thing I have done to warrant being yelled at by my coworkers on any given day.
I can go on, but the environment is incredibly toxic. Turnover is high and, even working at some of the most understaffed and decrepit places does not compare to my experience here. Is this a common thing amongst Target as a whole, especially in major cities? I would quit, but I am currently providing for myself and my girlfriend, and I would likely be ineligible for unemployment if I did so.
Without giving too much away, I live in one of the major three cities in the USA and work for a Target in said city. I started working for Target a few months ago, and without naming my department, I will say I have had nothing but a negative experience.
First, I was thrown right into work the same day as my orientation. I had experience with said department due to a past job. This was a red flag, but I figured maybe people had called off and they needed someone as a buffer. This lead to me closing said department by myself even though I had never worked for Target before, and hadn’t even had training because my orientation was the same day.
Coworker drama is at all time highs. There is constant drama over everyone who works at every department, and said drama spills out into basically every single department even if you are not in said department. SDs and other district managers are at our stores on a regular basis, and we recently had two people all out and quit. I have personally had ETLs tell me that I need to do more to keep the store going, and have had the DM for my department come over and yell at me unprovoked.
I have had coworkers complain on a constant basis when things aren’t done to the standard they want, whether or not it is done correctly. This has caused a lot of stress in my personal life, as I am always wondering what terrible thing I have done to warrant being yelled at by my coworkers on any given day.
I can go on, but the environment is incredibly toxic. Turnover is high and, even working at some of the most understaffed and decrepit places does not compare to my experience here. Is this a common thing amongst Target as a whole, especially in major cities? I would quit, but I am currently providing for myself and my girlfriend, and I would likely be ineligible for unemployment if I did so.