- Joined
- Sep 20, 2017
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- 79
Common occurrences such as “How do I quit,” and “Why I am quitting....” seem to deface the site like graffiti. Personal experiences, such as me witnessing a former TM outpouring about how done he is with the company and then storming out of the breakroom never to be seen or heard of again seems to populate my thoughts whenever I think about the stability of Targets employees. How about the uneasiness felt by all of our seasonal TM’s that are unanonymously incapable of expressing how they really feel, so they resort to making threads discussing how to do all of the aforementioned, online, here, just to be told the obvious? Or the ones that want to stay, who learn everything on their own until they’re fully capable enough of running their department, to be dismissed after their time is up as if it were all but a waste of time. It is because we are taught to not think for ourselves. Underwhelming positions with feasible work end up being way more tedious than the applicants of it could have ever imagined... all because of the resentment of team work. How many lights do you see every holiday season at the registers full of seasonals? How many times do you hear people ask for the location of the electronics keys just to be usually denied due to the vastness of the store and the unreliability of its safekeeping? What about stumbling employees who’ve been asked where something is by a guest who have to resort to a scheme of making up the location, saying they’re out of it, or leading them to a more familiarized employee— and then repeating it over and over until they find a guest asking for something they surely know of the items whereabouts. It is not the work itself, it is the architecture of the work that leads to confusion, irritability and multiple TM absences. Why do some departments not have a Team Leader..., or whatever the proper acronym for it is? Why does SFS require people to sweep and sweep, whenever they’re at a low production state that could take hours? It is because it is cheaper to keep employees on standby than to not have them whenever orders come in... so if they stand around, or if they do work on something abstract, and they don’t look productive even with a lack of work, they can get in lots of trouble. I could go on and on... so tell me, what makes you tick, and why do you think so many people leave? Do you think it’s a general thing for all stores? Or just Target?
