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Sorry you've been kicked out of Target for this mistake, which reflects a normal risk faced by cart attendants. Sometimes there's only a split second when some car swerves out in front of your carts. Usually a firing at Target is because of blatant dishonesty, stealing money or merchandise, intentionally injuring a co-worker or guest, intentionally damaging company property, or serious absenteeism. If your description is accurate, you did not engage in what's called "willful misconduct", insubordination or theft.
Looks like based on the thread if I’m reading it right according to a post near the bottom OP also hit a pregnant guest which IMO combined with hitting a car in the same week is probably not a hidden agenda by managementSorry you've been kicked out of Target for this mistake, which reflects a normal risk faced by cart attendants. Sometimes there's only a split second when some car swerves out in front of your carts. Usually a firing at Target is because of blatant dishonesty, stealing money or merchandise, intentionally injuring a co-worker or guest, intentionally damaging company property, or serious absenteeism. If your description is accurate, you did not engage in what's called "willful misconduct", insubordination or theft.
Firing seems to be an excessive punishment, but employment-at-will laws allow this kind of immediate firing. Most of us who work at Target, myself included, have found that if you are honest about your mistakes Target will give you a second chance. Cart attendant losing control of the carts when a car comes out of nowhere in the parking lot isn't a typical cause for firing. Somebody in your store's management has some other agenda going on. Sad.
Oh.... well still hitting a pregnant guest is not good, much worse than just scratching a car.
OP was vague about the carts and a pregnant guest, which is why I kept mentioning "if your account is true". So the big question: was this accidental or intentional? In my observations, I see TMs who occasionally make accidental mistakes, they clearly get coached and perhaps written up but not fired unless the SD and HR figure it was intentional, deliberate, malicious, whatever you want to call it. Our store has high standards and doesn't tolerate intentional bad behavior, so that's why I was a bit startled at why this cart attendant was terminated. Yeah, there is a liability issue and this is definitely not a good thing, but I am not seeing where the cart attendant behaved deliberately to harm others. "Accident" means something which was accidental, not planned in advance or intended to happen.
Wtf 2 wires only? Wow
That seems like a rational approach. How was the cart attendant TM to know this lady happened to be pregnant? I suspect this so-called guest read the riot act to corporate, and when it bucked down to the district and the SD, they took the easy way out. Target has the legal right to screw this cart attendant, they don't legally need a reason for firing under employment-at-will, so Target exercised that right.
