Is there a company policy that every Target store must have a cart pusher for safety procedures and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

You see I’ve just spoken to my ETL and my SD, but I still haven’t talked to my PML that it wouldn’t be a bother we could have a cart pusher, but they said the same thing they can’t afford it this time and that our store doesn’t need one (which is completely wrong) but we do need one. Specially for the weekends, holidays and hot sunny days. Pushing carts with no cart pusher has become exhausting for us, and I in particular, get emotionally drained out.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

There is an updated handbook that became available last week. Log into WorkDay at your store as there is an acknowledgement for it all TMs need to submit.

Okay, so how do I get there step-by-step?

 

[SigningLady]

Okay, so how do I get there step-by-step?

Log into WorkBench. Log into WorkDay. Home page will show an Action Needed for acknowledgement of the team member handbook. When you click on it there will be a link to the handbook itself for you to look over before submitting your acknowledgement.

 

[animalcrossing]

Yeah there's no policy that states anything about cart pushers lol plus it'd be a stupid requirement; my small format store has like 20 carts total so it'd be a waste

 

[animalcrossing]

You never have more than 20 guests in your store at one time? Exactly how small are you?

Nah it gets much busier than that lol we have tons of baskets but I guess carts weren't seen as a huge need when making my store. The carts are only seldom used tbh

 

[animalcrossing]

you can’t call someone overdramatic for worrying about heatstroke and then say it’s “getting warm” in some parts of the country when “some” parts of the country with large urban populations are seeing record setting heatwaves both in terms of overall temps and longevity of the high temperatures

don’t be foolish, be educated

I'm not saying the heat stroke part is overdramatic because it isn't; unfortunately it is a very real concern. Do not lump me in with climate change deniers because I am not one of them 🤦‍♂️ what IS overdramatic is saying that not getting a cart pusher will make OP die.

 

[Ringwraith917]

You will have to quit. There is no way that they're going to let you out of being a cart pusher. Nobody wants that job. For the reasons you stated.

 

[DBZ]

Those plastic carts are so easy to push by hand. I miss them! We used to have them and I could push 7 at a time. The regular cart attendant pushed 40 of them at once. He was a beast though. The cart attendants preferred to push the plastic by hand. When we had our remodel, we got the new plastic/metal ones and I could only push 4 of those, Those plastic/metal ones are shit. They will separate and go in directions you don't want them to. And when they are wet, they are worse. The CA who could push 40 quit after we got the new carts. With the plastic carts, you can actually get carts faster without the machine then with it.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

What IF I record videos of myself pushing carts on hot 🥵 and busy days with me sweating 😥 and gasping for air 😮‍💨 then put them in a flash drive and give it to my team leader? That way she can show it in her meetings and maybe it could the store to consider getting us a cart pusher as their number one priority.

I know, it was a dumb idea. So, let’s just give it a rest.

 

[sunnydays]

Now that's just extremely overdramatic. It is getting warm in some parts of the country

you can’t call someone overdramatic for worrying about heatstroke and then say it’s “getting warm” in some parts of the country when “some” parts of the country with large urban populations are seeing record setting heatwaves both in terms of overall temps and longevity of the high temperatures

don’t be foolish, be educated

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

you can’t call someone overdramatic for worrying about heatstroke and then say it’s “getting warm” in some parts of the country when “some” parts of the country with large urban populations are seeing record setting heatwaves both in terms of overall temps and longevity of the high temperatures

don’t be foolish, be educated

Yeah! 🙌🏼

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

You're really committed to dying on this hill. Like others have already said, it's not up to your store- it's the PMBP's call and even then they may have budgetary limitations.

Let it go and use this energy for something more productive.

And that’s EXACTLY who I’m going to show them to: the PMBP. And no, I am not giving up. I’m sorry, I just don’t give up so easily, even if I wanted to.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

As Cesar Chavez once said, “We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

Yeah there's no policy that states anything about cart pushers lol plus it'd be a stupid requirement; my small format store has like 20 carts total so it'd be a waste

Well, I think it is an efficient requirement if you ask me. Plus, the weather is so hot 🥵 outside that it slows me down and makes work harder and harder, that it keeps me inside too long to cool down. Then right after I cool off, I have to bring a series of carts, and so on, and so on. If I die of a heatstroke and it will be all over the news, maybe it will make the company establish a new safety system that will make the stores swallow their prides and have a cart pusher as an emergency kit or a backup equipment, you know?
No negative feedback, please.
Update: I fixed “prices” to “prides”.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

Now that's just extremely overdramatic. It is getting warm in some parts of the country but if your store doesn't already have a cart pusher then I can't imagine that it's a very big store. Therefore, there likely isn't a need for one. I'm a bit confused on your fixation with a cart pusher but hey, you do you

I think having a cart pusher would make things easier and efficient. If you think I really have a fixation about it, I think it’s been influenced by my dull SD’s 🥱 lack of consideration and compassion and by my diabolical ETL’s 😈 show-off, hypocrisy and narcissism, that made me wanting for a cart pusher. So, I’m just giving you an honest and good reason on why I believe my store needs a cart pusher, it’s not bad or “extremely overdramatic” as you call it, it’s just a conscious, considerate and compassionate favor that isn’t too much to ask. Since when was being conscious, considerate and compassionate a crime? If you think I’m being dramatic, maybe I have been, it may be because of the temperature outside, it’s over 96 degrees, but think about this for awhile before you reply.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

He won’t be able to do anything about changing the carts until HQ decides on their own timeline that it’s time for new carts. Then he’ll have to sign for them lol.

As for the cart pusher, it’s entirely up to his boss.

Well, I’ll pray that his boss will do something about it.

 

[PeaceLuvDuh24]

What IF I record videos of myself pushing carts on hot 🥵 and busy days with me sweating 😥 and gasping for air 😮‍💨 then put them in a flash drive and give it to my team leader? That way she can show it in her meetings and maybe it could the store to consider getting us a cart pusher as their number one priority.