Archived Upcoming holiday hours and overtime

[FinallyFamous]

So im new to target been working for the company since march of this year. Can anyone tell me how overtime and hrs work for the holiday season. How much extra hrs can a tm/operator be looking at? I know it depends on location n store but im curious in general how much extra hours can u get freely in overtime a week?

 

[PullMonkey]

I wouldn't necessarily expect overtime for anything less than a specialist position. Hours, maybe, but probably not overtime.

ASANTS though, to be fair

 

[On6]

Overtime is avoided until absolutely necessary. Your store may be different but the two stores I've worked at hardly ever gave it out. And you would be coached if you had unapproved OT.

 

[qmosqueen]

Last year I worked about 60 hrs/ week. If they ask you to stay stay If they are busy ask if they need someone in another area of the store and stay over only if the LOD says its ok. Learn to STO in the backroom cause that is always something that needs done ask if you can come in on your day off and work 5.5 hrs to back stock.

 

[Retail Girl]

In our district, heads roll if people even think about getting close to OT. The holidays don't change that.

 

[Doglover89]

ASANTS though, to be fair

Yes. In my store OT is available from time to time. I was offered it earlier this summer. HR TMs exact words were "don't worry about this shift putting you into OT, just come in" lol. If you are a TL or work he service desk, you will have a chance for OT fairly often.

 

[APredux]

Some stores allow OT (as previous posters have mentioned). In addition, on weeks where there is a paid holiday (Hello Thanksgiving!), you can work up to 48 hours without it counting as OT. Weeks with the 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, etc I always work around 47.5. Those are some nice pay checks.

 

[Streetdate]

The only time overtime was every given at my store was when we had a catastrophe in grocery. Basically the entire cooler wall defrosted, so the team had to spend the entire day demerchandising it because of food safety. Was an absolute nightmare.

 

[Retail Girl]

Yes. In my store OT is available from time to time. I was offered it earlier this summer. HR TMs exact words were "don't worry about this shift putting you into OT, just come in" lol. If you are a TL or work he service desk, you will have a chance for OT fairly often.

OT for service desk??? Oh, that would never happen here!

 

[On6]

Some stores allow OT (as previous posters have mentioned). In addition, on weeks where there is a paid holiday (Hello Thanksgiving!), you can work up to 48 hours without it counting as OT. Weeks with the 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, etc I always work around 47.5. Those are some nice pay checks.

To clarify more on this.

You can work up to 40 hours outside of the holiday. It's just the hours worked on the holiday don't count towards the 40. Technically if you didn't work the holiday and had more than 40 total on the other days you would have overtime.

 

[BigEyedPhish]

The only time overtime was every given at my store was when we had a catastrophe in grocery. Basically the entire cooler wall defrosted, so the team had to spend the entire day demerchandising it because of food safety. Was an absolute nightmare.

Lol, about a year ago we had a power outage and backup failure, we had to throw literally everything away.... Was so fun.....

 

[semantics]

The only time overtime was every given at my store was when we had a catastrophe in grocery. Basically the entire cooler wall defrosted, so the team had to spend the entire day demerchandising it because of food safety. Was an absolute nightmare.

My store nearly every year backroom/flow gets OT during blackfriday and christmas lead ups because they just get pounded and we're never fully staffed in those areas get crazy turnover especially in flow, just run out of people. OT is better than canceling trucks to try to catch up beca

 

[redeye58]

Last year's seasonals were absolute bottom-feeders, many of which were gone before BF so our leadership said OT was available for those willing to cover certain areas.
As a result, yours truly (aka 'the Flo Ho') picked up nearly 8 weeks of OT.

 

[mrknownothing]

The only time my store has allowed overtime since I was hired was after an emergency (can't get too specific on here) a couple years ago.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

On power outages & cooler failures. Spot does a labor claim with insurance.

 

[Flowmotion]

Last year's seasonals were absolute bottom-feeders, many of which were gone before BF so our leadership said OT was available for those willing to cover certain areas.
As a result, yours truly (aka 'the Flo Ho') picked up nearly 8 weeks of OT.

Yeah, my store had the same issue with seasonal hires. I didn't mind 45-50 hour weeks.

YTD, I am at 16 hours of OT. Looking forward to more.

 

[mrknownothing]

On power outages & cooler failures. Spot does a labor claim with insurance.

This. All the hours were charged out and the insurance company covered the lost merchandise.

 

[Coqui]

At our store, OT is handed out like candy during the holidays. Black Friday is a day were you can rack up some nice OT.

 

[sher]

My store doesn't do OT but the week of thanksgiving they'll let you have 40 hours outside of thanksgiving since we already get time and a half for thanksgiving day.

 

[CrimsonRaven712]

I'm really hoping to get overtime this holiday season. It was my first one where my availability is open.

 

[TallAPGuy]

I've got 8 hours of OT this year. 4 from driving down to the Bay Area for training, which in total made for a 12 hour day, plus mileage, gas, and meals.
The second was my ETL had me cover a shift for someone who called out for his shift the next day, which put me at 44 hours. My ETL got chewed out by the STL, I was told not to agree to it again.

 

[Kompa]

The Flow and Backroom team will take everyone else's ot once the trucks pick up

 

[MyTH]

OT is no different during the holiday season stores still try and avoid it at all cost. If it is handed out it is usually at high volume stores for speciality positions in a case of emergency or for team leaders to complete task & run process. The more you make yourself valuable & the more of the store you know the more likely you will get hours/ot regardless the time of year.

 

[Kuroyume]

Have heard nothing about overtime at my store. You think Target is bad. Sam's is similar (40 hours - someone was written up for being 30 seconds over!). They will only give OT for an allotted interval if Bentonville approves it. In our case, it was for like two weeks around BF. Even then, they kept it to 48 or less hours.