I have been working at Target for 2 months now. I applied for backroom, but for some reason they wanted to hire me for Flow Team. I took it, cause unemployment sucks.
On my first day I had a HORRIBLE panic attack and actually almost ran out of the building. Second day was A LOT better.
I have already been coached twice for working slow, and been told more times outside of coachings I take too long, but have also been told I work fast, or the right speed a few times. The second coaching was due to me and a new coworker talking too much, taking twice as long as our job should have taken, we both got a coaching for that, but I alrewdg had one for just working slow.
Not only do I still have 30 more days to day 90, but I’m only seasonal, and coworkers told me that Target gets rid of most of the seasonal workers at Christmas (I was hired September 25th). They say you’re pretty much unfirable, even if you make a lot of mistakes, IF you’re full time and after your 90 days.
I’ve already lost 2 jobs (this is my third job) all this year (the second one I technically quit because they’d only keep me if I accepted a demotion, but I chose to quit due to insecurity of what coworkers and even my family would think of me), all have been retail, but that’s really all I qualify for, and fast food would be way, WAY faster, Plus I’m almost 22, I should have a better job at my age.
My team leader has told me a few times that I worked good speed and that I was improving and did a good job (nice to hear) but the boss always brags how he’s faster and better than everyone else.
Most Seasonal workers already get dropped at Christmas! To clarify, HR told me that my seasonal position has a maximum length of 6 months, not 3, so it can be until March, but they throw away seasonal workers in half that time. I never got warnings or corrections at either of my jobs before, it was just an unexpected sudden termination, Target is actually fair when it comes to that, they give coachings and corrections before terminating you.
But I know people put on masks and sugarcoat everything (instead of fired, it’s called being let go) so they can be planning to throw me away right before the 90 day probation period ends and not tell me.
It is a very big deal if I lose this job, because life is already a ridiculous struggle for me.
Following verbal instruction is harder for me, and I weirdly tend to f up when the boss walks by. I was actually on a roll stocking boxes from the line to the pallets, had a good rhythm. And the boss happened to walk back into receiving RIGHT when boxes for the locations I know STOPPED COMING, and he said “You should be taking boxes off the line.” I was looking for boxes to get in the truck! Another guy kept walking to and from the truck to get boxes! (He did say something about making sure the boss wasn’t around.) The boss missed all my good working getting so many boxes off the line and putting them on their pallets!
I have trouble communicating/explaining myself too, so I can potentially screw myself.
They often expect ONE person to do A HUGE amount of work on the floor, in an unreasonable amount of time!
I already struggle with depression and anxiety issues, not even telling my life story. My depression and anxiety issues have gotten SEVERELY worse in recent months, and I feel like I am really losing my sanity. If I get let go again, I might end up in prison or a mental facility! I don’t have anything to lose! I make suicide plans for if I lose my job.
I’ve never even had a girlfriend and I’m still a virgin, I ain’t getting any women if I’m not financially independent. I can’t do shit with my life! Just like ISPs have a monopoly on gateways to the Internet (separate, net neutrality issue) employers/corporations have a monopoly on source of financial independence!
I am so ready to die, not because I actually want to, but because I’m unable to live and do anything I want.
On my first day I had a HORRIBLE panic attack and actually almost ran out of the building. Second day was A LOT better.
I have already been coached twice for working slow, and been told more times outside of coachings I take too long, but have also been told I work fast, or the right speed a few times. The second coaching was due to me and a new coworker talking too much, taking twice as long as our job should have taken, we both got a coaching for that, but I alrewdg had one for just working slow.
Not only do I still have 30 more days to day 90, but I’m only seasonal, and coworkers told me that Target gets rid of most of the seasonal workers at Christmas (I was hired September 25th). They say you’re pretty much unfirable, even if you make a lot of mistakes, IF you’re full time and after your 90 days.
I’ve already lost 2 jobs (this is my third job) all this year (the second one I technically quit because they’d only keep me if I accepted a demotion, but I chose to quit due to insecurity of what coworkers and even my family would think of me), all have been retail, but that’s really all I qualify for, and fast food would be way, WAY faster, Plus I’m almost 22, I should have a better job at my age.
My team leader has told me a few times that I worked good speed and that I was improving and did a good job (nice to hear) but the boss always brags how he’s faster and better than everyone else.
Most Seasonal workers already get dropped at Christmas! To clarify, HR told me that my seasonal position has a maximum length of 6 months, not 3, so it can be until March, but they throw away seasonal workers in half that time. I never got warnings or corrections at either of my jobs before, it was just an unexpected sudden termination, Target is actually fair when it comes to that, they give coachings and corrections before terminating you.
But I know people put on masks and sugarcoat everything (instead of fired, it’s called being let go) so they can be planning to throw me away right before the 90 day probation period ends and not tell me.
It is a very big deal if I lose this job, because life is already a ridiculous struggle for me.
Following verbal instruction is harder for me, and I weirdly tend to f up when the boss walks by. I was actually on a roll stocking boxes from the line to the pallets, had a good rhythm. And the boss happened to walk back into receiving RIGHT when boxes for the locations I know STOPPED COMING, and he said “You should be taking boxes off the line.” I was looking for boxes to get in the truck! Another guy kept walking to and from the truck to get boxes! (He did say something about making sure the boss wasn’t around.) The boss missed all my good working getting so many boxes off the line and putting them on their pallets!
I have trouble communicating/explaining myself too, so I can potentially screw myself.
They often expect ONE person to do A HUGE amount of work on the floor, in an unreasonable amount of time!
I already struggle with depression and anxiety issues, not even telling my life story. My depression and anxiety issues have gotten SEVERELY worse in recent months, and I feel like I am really losing my sanity. If I get let go again, I might end up in prison or a mental facility! I don’t have anything to lose! I make suicide plans for if I lose my job.
I’ve never even had a girlfriend and I’m still a virgin, I ain’t getting any women if I’m not financially independent. I can’t do shit with my life! Just like ISPs have a monopoly on gateways to the Internet (separate, net neutrality issue) employers/corporations have a monopoly on source of financial independence!
I am so ready to die, not because I actually want to, but because I’m unable to live and do anything I want.
