I'm just curious if anyone's store is seeing any glimpse of improvement? My store is sliding farther and farther into the abyss of failure, and as they keep trying new ways to kick the can down the road all of the good employees are leaving. This of course, leaves us with the idiots who don't even know how to use a door handle.....
As I am seeing it no.
I have been working with Target for nearly three months. For the first month, it was great. Excellent work environment, friendly coworkers. It was hard work, but we worked together to get stuff done. Now, I'm on month three. My ETL has left, and most of HR quit or moved to different locations. The new ETL has been not so great for everyone.
I'm gonna preface here, I'm severely HOH and physically disabled but my past jobs haven't paid me very well. I took up reaching out to Target and it took me two years of applying. When I told my old ETL and HR manager this, they couldn't find a year of my applications. Which was insane. I look at my personal application history, it was no longer there. I only saw my recent applications to several locations. That's just the beginning of my struggles with them.
Since the new ETL has been here and many coworkers have left. We have two people running HR. and barely enough staff to get by. I work mostly as a guest advocate. I have 4 leads struggling just as much as many of my coworkers have underneath them. I am one of 2 disabled workers in my area. Between me and my coworker, our ETL has been very harsh toward us. Getting very frustrated with anything that looks 'inefficient'. It has gotten to the point of me and this coworker wanting to quit bc the language she uses with us as of recently sounds like she wants to fire us. We want to quit so it would look better than being fired on our work history.
With the state of the store going into disaster. Backrooms overflowing. Strays/abandons carts are all over the front of the store. Team members struggling to keep up with the number of guests coming into the store. Guests getting angry at everyone's customer service. Yelling at the team leads over things we cannot control. Getting overly angry about having me and my coworker up front bc we "can not complete simple tasks" or "make it harder" for them to check out. Not keeping the price tags up to date with inflation that changes the price of items, and I'm not kidding when I say this, EVERY TWO DAYS. It's gotten to the point where we just charge the shelf price and brace TargetCo. TM. consequences. The list goes on. Everyone is overworked. It looks like 70% of team members are pushing overtime.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel. We are falling into an abyss. There is no bracing for the ground at the end. Just hope there is a tree to catch yourself on and hold on for survival. Welcome to the hunger games I guess. May the best person win in the mind fuck games of American capitalism. -Some random team member
