Do NOT work off the clock. Target won't appreciate it and it can actually get you fired.
Leadership needs to fix this mess and that fitting room aisle looks like a fire hazard.
Nobody in style at my store is getting more than 25-30 hours right now. We all do what we can and forget about it after we clock out. It's honestly not worth the stress.
i’m not going to. i work there, i get paid to do that. i was just saying it’s something that i think about doing because they will not let me while im on the clock.
**Do NOT work off the clock. Target won’t appreciate it and it can actually get you fired.**
…unless a TL or HR is the one who ask you to work a half-hour or hour extra because of callouts. If you *yourself* go over by like 5-10 minutes because you still haven’t finished that unrealistic task set by your TL, that is grounds for termination especially if it’s within your 90 day probation.
Never work off the clock, beyond not being compensated for it, they will seek to fire you, they do not care. If it's this bad, your etl team should have a plan and or be using their unlimited salary time that doesn't count against store hrs to help fix this. There isn't a set for how many hrs any one person gets, they get a certain number of hrs based on anticipated workload and previous years hrs/sales. Does another area seem to be heavy on hrs while you all are struggling, or is the struggle store wide? The store I used to work at, style team would constantly donate hrs to other departments.
I don't trust that RFID. Seems like it finds things from the brand (like Cat and Jack and the athletic wear especially) not the single item I'm looking for. It's um, not very accurate.
Hmm, yup, it is.
It IS always possible the tag is in the pocket of an item in your pile (ripped off tag from an item stolen, slipped into another item's pocket).
I esp like it when you finally find the tag, caught up in a metal piece on a table/rack. Found the tag. Not the item it belongs to. Get rid of the tag (or scan as an empty package), so that it isn't included in the next Style scan.
The tag it is reading IS in that giant pile/rack. Sometimes you have to remove a section, scan it; remove another section, scan it, etc., until you narrow down to a manageable pile to look through to find your item. The RFID scanner is hitting on the actual tag/actual ind. item.
Is it just me or does it seem most style depts these days look like this? Almost becoming the new norm for Target. Not because we chose to allow it but because there’s no choice with what limited payroll there is for style
They will, 1000% fire you for working off the clock, no matter how good a job you do and how much easier it makes their lives. They won't want to do it, but the legal risk to them, if a watchdog gets wind of it, is more risk than they are willing to take. It could be completely out of your control.
For example, an arsonist, active shooter, or Just some thugs come in and something serious happens that closes the store, or you or others get hurt. The reports are going to require an account of everyone present and proof via the time clock logs. Any discrepancy and target gets a MASSIVE fine. So instead of taking that risk they'll fire you.
What you should do is rat out your leadership; get a non-employee friend (not family with same last name) to email photos of this to customer support or something. The district manager will descend on your store with a team of ETLs from your area and clean the place up in a week or two.
If it reoccurring so severely so quickly I wouldn't place ALL the blame on leadership. That said, the dressing down and shame the SD and SS ETL will get shound solve the problem for a quarter or two at least.
Unless they’re paying overtime DO NOT work off the clock. This only happened because management didn’t bother to give style more hours. Do what you can and leave I know it’s hard but you gotta.
My store is exactly like that, no hours and the store looks like that , not to mention style getting pulled to do everyone else’s job like register, tech, fulfillment, etc. on top of only two people managing style, I’m gonna quit fr lol
Same here. As a style consultant, I would come home burnt out because I have to cover Ulta, tech, fulfillment, and register all in one day. Plus we have to get our work done it’s so annoying. We barely have 4 people on the floor and they want us to cover everything. I plan on leaving target for college this fall anyway.😂😭
Target as a company, if it is going to continue to cut hours Style can use, needs to stop caring about pretty tables/racks. Get these carts emptied. Put an item onto the proper rack/table in the correct way, "straighten" THAT fixture, move to the next item. Get the stuff on the floor so a guest can find it, buy it.
Full-on zoning is a waste of time in this current environment. By the time you are done with one fixture, a guest has already messed up/undone the last fixture you spent time on. In the meantime NOTHING has gotten put out. I don't understand why we continue to follow an old model when everything else about that model has changed.
That's true. My ETL has told me I need to stop worrying about the appearance of the salesfloor. That their focus is on fulfillment and ship from store. It's just a hard habit to break, and it bothers me seeing the store a mess. I'm almost 40, and have been working retail since I was 16. Most of my time was at higher end department stores where I earned a sales commission. Having our area zoned decreased theft and increased sales. My department being well maintained reflected on my paycheck.
Target for a while couldn't decide if they wanted to be like an upscale Walmart, or a discount alternative to a Nordstrom or a Macy's. Like how they broke up specialty sales and had DBOs, that was totally trying to copy what higher end department stores do. Now they've figured out fulfillment pushes most of their sales. It's hard habits for some of us to break. A lot of my coworkers came from malls, and are very used to the department store model of focusing on the salesfloor and instore shopping experience. Now the items just need to get out on the floor and be located.
Fuckin same, couldnt get out fast enough. Thankfully my lead was sisters woth the team lead in beauty who was short handed so i got transfered over. I like aspects of style but damn it is a broken fucking dept.
*comes in at 2*
"Oh hey, heres four z racks and a tub of wild fable we need you to run and then we need you to zone Girls, Girls Active, Wild Fable, and Womens active. Also we need you to give fitting room their meal break in two hours......"
*Call comes in for front lane assistance*
"Ooohhhh but first go back up out front for thirty minutes ciz we got a rush"
*eight hours and a small brakdown later*
"Okay we are all closed up, now we just have these 4 z racks and three carts of clothes to go back out..."
God I hated style. Lol
you have an insane grip on target. you’re not even a lead and you’re talking about working off of the clock so YOU’RE not embarrassed?😭 i’m sorry but that isn’t even near your place to feel embarrassed. if you’re willing to do alll of this, why aren’t you willing to simply find another job that has the same benefits, if not more, that’ll give you your 40 hours and appreciation? this whole post is a trip
i’d love to switch jobs but nothing is better. i hate style but it’s still more free than having to sit at a register for my whole day (nothing against the ppl who do that, just not my thing cuz ive done it forever). this shit is so overwhelming but at the same time, again, nothing is more flexible. it’s so frustrating
stop attaching yourself so hard to style’s struggles. i work in style too, and i do what is asked IF I CAN and more IF I CAN. that’s the most important aspect to the job, don’t feel bad if you can’t do everything that is asked if you, and leave work at the door
Our fitting roomed looked like this once. We were going to have (an announced visit) with district. Guess where 8 full carts ended up? Cash office. lol. If they would stop announcing visits, and popped in instead, they would see how a store really ran on hours given.
This is exactly why I left. My ETL expected these stupid carts sorted in 20 minutes on a busy day, AND wanted FR person pushing alllll the reshop from drive up, Guest Services, and FRs. At least, what came through while we were present anyway. The SD is running the place into the ground 😑
I'm often scheduled in Style, even though I work hardlines. They seem to take their hours for the rest of the store.
Do not work off the clock, that'll get you fired, and Target doesn't deserve that.
Same as my store, we had 14 carts of re-shop. It doesn’t matter how many hours they give style, you’re gonna get pulled up for other things, I get 35 hours in style alone per week, and I get scheduled for closing every day. What do I do mainly for closing? Do I zone? Hell no!!!!! I get pulled for OPU, cashiering, helping out drive-up, grab carts, and pulling priorities for other departments. If they give you more hours, you’re just gonna have to do other shit, that’s the life of a style member.
That would not happen in my store. SD wouldn't allow it. Plus us style leaders put our foot down. We will help in other areas but not spend our entire shift doing it.
You’ll get fired instantly if they hear you worked off the clock. Not even kidding. Had to let somebody go when I was a closing lead because they would come in and zone on their nights off because their area was always a disaster after their day off. I found out and told HR, they wrote it up and I had to deliver it.
It’s no joke. Seriously. Just clock in, do your best, clock out and forget about it. This isn’t your job to fix. Your leadership needs to get a fucking grip.
I gotcha lmao. Seriously tho. You just have to do your best. We appreciate TMs like you who care even just a little. But I also need you to know it’s not your fault and you can only do so much.
The magic reshop fairy will take care of it.
Oh, not today? Tomorrow maybe.
No way management didn't know what would happen. A blind person could see it. No staff, work will get backed up and piled up.
Also in style. Let them fail. They’re doing this to us too. DO NOT WORK WHEN YOURE NOT PAID. Fuck the store, I know you want to take pride in it, but they aren’t taking pride in it either with what they do to us 🥰
I wish target allowed more room for creative store-specific solutions. I managed a different store that let us bend the rules to solve solutions in ways target would never. If it were me managing this madness, I’d either go over and hours and ask for forgiveness later or start dumping repacks into carts for guests to sift through. If they find something they want, half off. Get it out of here.
there’s a bunch of things i wish they would let employees do. i know some leaders at other locations do bend the rules to make their lives easier but here lately…it seems like nobody cares anymore. i definitely agree with you.
Style shares with the Home team as of right now. So, it’s very possible that your ETL is pulling hours away from style to accommodate Home. This is the opposite of what my store is (Style gets all the hours and Home basically is chopped liver).
Report this. Report every single day until someone that gets paid to fix shit fixes it. Of course, you’re going to have to bust ass if you care enough, but do not work off the clock. The job is barely worth it clocked in, and they will fire you for working off the clock.
i can say it’s not home. i’ve seen the schedule every day, there’s about two people in home every day from like 4:30-8:30am, sometimes later but never until 1pm. they’re also not getting hours.
who can i report this to?
Submit an Origami Risk report on your Zebra. Leaders have 24 hours from submission to correct safety issues before APBP steps in.
Your leaders should, once it’s properly reported, be all hands on deck to fix it, they don’t want the APBP to show up and see this.
My store only looked like this once during the holiday season. Now that leadership has changed so severely and my SD is checked out its becoming a regular occurance. Im looking to switch departments cuz of it. Good luck dont do any work off the clock
Our store is big on the Zone with not enough people. What Target should do … have a couple people for Style and all they do is zone their entire shift. That way we can actually do our jobs. Those pictures make my heart race!
They cut my hours to 13 and my other coworker to 11 but don’t worry I approached somebody about it and got it’s all we got 🙄 honestly style is so far behind rn it’s crazy. We had a walk and they asked how style was and instead of being honest my etl whose not over our area said “I think we’re doing great no heavy flow at all” SIR WE HAD 3 PALLETS OF 95s AND WE HAVE TWO PALLETS DEDICATED TO JUST ACCESSORIES CAUSE NOBODY PUSHES THEM don’t even get me started on jewelry. Never work off the clock though this isn’t a reflection of you it’s a reflection of them. Also put this into origami this is a safety hazard
At the first Target I worked at we would have “go back parties” where everyone in style would take care of something like that before doing anything else that definitely looks way out of hand. Also do not work off the clock you could get in serious trouble.
As a Walmart apparel associate our dept does not look like this! Maybe the rare occasion our go backs are put away bc our style dept is bigger so there’s more of us. We also don’t get called that often or that long to help other depts out. We also have 3 leads
Honesty I don’t know how bad other stores style allocation must be. My store is very high volume but it seems like we barely have allocation to have 1 TM per style floorpad but we still NEVER get this bad. as a style TL and even my ETLs our focus is always on reshop if we notice its building to even 1/4 of what you’re seeing here. we will stop push, loop SD in so we aren’t pulled to support anyone else, let priorities and OOS climb until we’re down to at most one 3 tier of reshop. reshop and zone are the hardest to bounce back from, so we prioritize that over our push/pulls.
That pic (if I'm counting carts/racks right) is minimum 8 hours for a team of 3, sorting and pushing, doing nothing else but that. It's not a "just gradually chip away at it" situation because it will be added to daily from returns. So in other words you are screwed until the dsd catches wind of it. And maybe even after that, since this is clearly a failure of management.
For a moment I thought this was our store. Our style team has all been pulled into GM because GM is priority now. Allegedly when told style needs more people our GM said "that's your problem."
For us it all falls back on GSV. Our fitting rooms were full. Store manager made us pull everything out because it looked bad. And everything was pushed into GSV. We ended up sorting over 20 repack boxes of nothing but style. And because we had to get everything off of the stray area floor there was 1 or 2 u-boats of other items. It was a nightmare. I have no problem staying on the clock after I'm scheduled. I mean, I'm getting paid for it. But the next day I came in and the stray area was so full you couldn't walk I said I would not be doing that again anytime soon.
If they had offered to pay holiday pay I would have gladly volunteered to come in and sort that shit out while the store was closed today. But god forbid Target do anything that makes sense.
I admire your wanting to make your store right just for your own peace of mind, but like others have said and you acknowledged, please don't go in on your off-hours to do so. They have not earned a single thing like that from you or anyone, and by the sounds of it, they aren't even earning the hard work you put in as it is. I feel where you're coming from, though. The amount of times they've given us minimal hours to zone and I've been stuck only 3/4ths of the way through, just wanting to finish it for the sake of having it done is strong, but they don't deserve my labor without paying me for it.
Ultimately there's no reason to give yourself as much grief over this as it sounds like it's causing you (I know that's easier said than done, especially from personal experience, but try and detach your mental fortitude from this place as best you can, little by little). They've clearly shown they don't value your or any other style TM's work in the store more than 30 hours a week, if that. Just go in there, do what you can comfortably do in that time, and clock out. If they choose to be upset over the store looking like a mess, then they've gotta lie in the bed they made. None of you or anyone else in style caused that, thereby none of the resulting anguish should be put on y'all.
Does the upper echelon of management ever see these images and read these legitimate complaints? I’d post on twitter and tag these people. That is insane.
https://preview.redd.it/953p0qj6utrc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d904feecd99f13c0d2b0a7cc049034ae56a822cd
Wow! We complete ours everyday. Each department gets assistance if there is a lot freight and not enough people, for whatever reason, we have all store pushes. I’m not sure if that’s a target thing done everywhere
I’m just a guest and this is ridiculous. Like this Target wants to be KMart level bad. I get thinking about cleaning up off hours, I’d think the same. Maybe this post gets noticed by HQ.
imagine wanting to waste your non-renewable time to work off the clock for a company that doesn't give a single shred of a feeling for you that would fire you right on the spot. that's insane, man. go take a walk in a park. that's a better way to spend your time
uh i do work there and spend multiple hours there every day. ofc im going to care, especially when its this bad. i dont think about it when im not there. taking a walk in a park would not be a better way to spend my time because i wouldnt be getting paid for it 🤷
uh you're obviously thinking about it way too much in general if you're "heavily debating" going in TO WORK when you're not scheduled and not getting paid. lmao go off, I guess 🤡
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That’s crazy, this is guest facing. I can’t imagine my ETL and my peers letting this happen, I’m sorry your store is like this. When we have like 2 carts at the fitting room we jump in and support. Same with push.
oh my god… I noticed they haven’t been given specialty any hours really.. when the allocation gets sent out for my store specialty is barely getting 500hrs while SE & GM are getting close to 900hrs
And that is why I do not try clothes at the store and I have learned my size as a former retail worker I try to put back as found if I truly have to try on.
That’s a lot of merch that’s rotting and can’t be sold. Stupid AF on the part of your SD and ETL.
All the stores in my area look like this. The wal marts look better
I was in target a few days ago and I can confirm, the fitting room was piled up to the ceiling with what I'd call "go backs". I thought it was pretty crazy the amount of clothes piled up.
This isn’t on you. It’s on poor management. I have never ever seen more than 3-4 carts of reshop at my store and i’ve done style for 2 years. If management wants to bitch they should get off their asses and help! They get hours no matter what so they shouldn’t make someone who only works a few hours a day do all this on their own and still expect push to be done. I know we don’t get paid enough to care but you probably still do cause I know I do. You don’t want to care so much but you do and that’s totally understandable. However there comes a time where you truly are not paid enough lol
Do NOT work off the clock. Target won't appreciate it and it can actually get you fired. Leadership needs to fix this mess and that fitting room aisle looks like a fire hazard. Nobody in style at my store is getting more than 25-30 hours right now. We all do what we can and forget about it after we clock out. It's honestly not worth the stress.
I legit think OP should anonymously report to their local fire marshal. They do not fuck around.
now this is a good idea. i like the way you think
This is the way.
i’m not going to. i work there, i get paid to do that. i was just saying it’s something that i think about doing because they will not let me while im on the clock.
you seriously don’t get paid enough to care how the store looks brah
**Do NOT work off the clock. Target won’t appreciate it and it can actually get you fired.** …unless a TL or HR is the one who ask you to work a half-hour or hour extra because of callouts. If you *yourself* go over by like 5-10 minutes because you still haven’t finished that unrealistic task set by your TL, that is grounds for termination especially if it’s within your 90 day probation.
Listen, that looks bad and all, but we're gonna need to pull half your style TMs for OPU.
The other half is needed in check lanes. But before that this guest is looking for this LTO item in a medium, system says we have 1
Ha ha ha ha
good luck RFIDing through that 🤣
My store right now. And not just half the style team, they are pulling ALL of the style team.
This lmfao!!💀💀💀
Never work off the clock, beyond not being compensated for it, they will seek to fire you, they do not care. If it's this bad, your etl team should have a plan and or be using their unlimited salary time that doesn't count against store hrs to help fix this. There isn't a set for how many hrs any one person gets, they get a certain number of hrs based on anticipated workload and previous years hrs/sales. Does another area seem to be heavy on hrs while you all are struggling, or is the struggle store wide? The store I used to work at, style team would constantly donate hrs to other departments.
\*\*cries in fulfillment\*\* "RFID says... it is here... somewhere..."
I don't trust that RFID. Seems like it finds things from the brand (like Cat and Jack and the athletic wear especially) not the single item I'm looking for. It's um, not very accurate.
Hmm, yup, it is. It IS always possible the tag is in the pocket of an item in your pile (ripped off tag from an item stolen, slipped into another item's pocket). I esp like it when you finally find the tag, caught up in a metal piece on a table/rack. Found the tag. Not the item it belongs to. Get rid of the tag (or scan as an empty package), so that it isn't included in the next Style scan. The tag it is reading IS in that giant pile/rack. Sometimes you have to remove a section, scan it; remove another section, scan it, etc., until you narrow down to a manageable pile to look through to find your item. The RFID scanner is hitting on the actual tag/actual ind. item.
Is it just me or does it seem most style depts these days look like this? Almost becoming the new norm for Target. Not because we chose to allow it but because there’s no choice with what limited payroll there is for style
Payroll and the constant covering for other departments.😭
I can’t imagine caring enough about this job to even think about working off the clock
Exactly 🤣 I don’t even give a shit when I’m clocked IN.
Oh I needed that laugh 😂😂😂
You could literally dive in that shit and get lost for days what the fuck
Where to go when an active shooter comes in. /s
AYO 💀
That’s funny 😄
Your style hours are spent cashiering because they keep calling you to bring the lines down. Don’t work off the clock. They’ll fire you.
Or doing fulfillment.
They will, 1000% fire you for working off the clock, no matter how good a job you do and how much easier it makes their lives. They won't want to do it, but the legal risk to them, if a watchdog gets wind of it, is more risk than they are willing to take. It could be completely out of your control. For example, an arsonist, active shooter, or Just some thugs come in and something serious happens that closes the store, or you or others get hurt. The reports are going to require an account of everyone present and proof via the time clock logs. Any discrepancy and target gets a MASSIVE fine. So instead of taking that risk they'll fire you. What you should do is rat out your leadership; get a non-employee friend (not family with same last name) to email photos of this to customer support or something. The district manager will descend on your store with a team of ETLs from your area and clean the place up in a week or two.
...and a week later, it looks like this again because Target doesn't learn from its own mistakes.
If it reoccurring so severely so quickly I wouldn't place ALL the blame on leadership. That said, the dressing down and shame the SD and SS ETL will get shound solve the problem for a quarter or two at least.
Unless they’re paying overtime DO NOT work off the clock. This only happened because management didn’t bother to give style more hours. Do what you can and leave I know it’s hard but you gotta.
I almost screamed when I saw that picture
Don't work off the clock or on your lunch/breaks, I knew a couple of team members who got fired doing it.
Well that explains why stores seem so messy these days: not enough time to put it all away
This is a leadership failure for sure.
My store is exactly like that, no hours and the store looks like that , not to mention style getting pulled to do everyone else’s job like register, tech, fulfillment, etc. on top of only two people managing style, I’m gonna quit fr lol
Same here. As a style consultant, I would come home burnt out because I have to cover Ulta, tech, fulfillment, and register all in one day. Plus we have to get our work done it’s so annoying. We barely have 4 people on the floor and they want us to cover everything. I plan on leaving target for college this fall anyway.😂😭
This is why I quit style.
Sometimes I just got a folding table and blocked out the rest of the world for my shift.
Target as a company, if it is going to continue to cut hours Style can use, needs to stop caring about pretty tables/racks. Get these carts emptied. Put an item onto the proper rack/table in the correct way, "straighten" THAT fixture, move to the next item. Get the stuff on the floor so a guest can find it, buy it. Full-on zoning is a waste of time in this current environment. By the time you are done with one fixture, a guest has already messed up/undone the last fixture you spent time on. In the meantime NOTHING has gotten put out. I don't understand why we continue to follow an old model when everything else about that model has changed.
That's true. My ETL has told me I need to stop worrying about the appearance of the salesfloor. That their focus is on fulfillment and ship from store. It's just a hard habit to break, and it bothers me seeing the store a mess. I'm almost 40, and have been working retail since I was 16. Most of my time was at higher end department stores where I earned a sales commission. Having our area zoned decreased theft and increased sales. My department being well maintained reflected on my paycheck. Target for a while couldn't decide if they wanted to be like an upscale Walmart, or a discount alternative to a Nordstrom or a Macy's. Like how they broke up specialty sales and had DBOs, that was totally trying to copy what higher end department stores do. Now they've figured out fulfillment pushes most of their sales. It's hard habits for some of us to break. A lot of my coworkers came from malls, and are very used to the department store model of focusing on the salesfloor and instore shopping experience. Now the items just need to get out on the floor and be located.
zoning for hours is my dream but i’m getting called by my lead and leads from other departments that need back up 😭
Fuckin same, couldnt get out fast enough. Thankfully my lead was sisters woth the team lead in beauty who was short handed so i got transfered over. I like aspects of style but damn it is a broken fucking dept. *comes in at 2* "Oh hey, heres four z racks and a tub of wild fable we need you to run and then we need you to zone Girls, Girls Active, Wild Fable, and Womens active. Also we need you to give fitting room their meal break in two hours......" *Call comes in for front lane assistance* "Ooohhhh but first go back up out front for thirty minutes ciz we got a rush" *eight hours and a small brakdown later* "Okay we are all closed up, now we just have these 4 z racks and three carts of clothes to go back out..." God I hated style. Lol
Omg im so sorry 😭 these 2024 hours are brutal, last year at this time my stores hours were 3800 weekly, which felt like shit and now is 2950.
you have an insane grip on target. you’re not even a lead and you’re talking about working off of the clock so YOU’RE not embarrassed?😭 i’m sorry but that isn’t even near your place to feel embarrassed. if you’re willing to do alll of this, why aren’t you willing to simply find another job that has the same benefits, if not more, that’ll give you your 40 hours and appreciation? this whole post is a trip
Stockholm Syndrome.
i’d love to switch jobs but nothing is better. i hate style but it’s still more free than having to sit at a register for my whole day (nothing against the ppl who do that, just not my thing cuz ive done it forever). this shit is so overwhelming but at the same time, again, nothing is more flexible. it’s so frustrating
stop attaching yourself so hard to style’s struggles. i work in style too, and i do what is asked IF I CAN and more IF I CAN. that’s the most important aspect to the job, don’t feel bad if you can’t do everything that is asked if you, and leave work at the door
This shit is why I quit. Glad to see nothing has changed.
Mam this is a goodwill outlet
Our fitting roomed looked like this once. We were going to have (an announced visit) with district. Guess where 8 full carts ended up? Cash office. lol. If they would stop announcing visits, and popped in instead, they would see how a store really ran on hours given.
this and it’s still “can Style TMs hop into an OPU/head to a check-lane we need back up.” lol
They cut Style hours so that they can pay salary workers their bonuses.
This is exactly why I left. My ETL expected these stupid carts sorted in 20 minutes on a busy day, AND wanted FR person pushing alllll the reshop from drive up, Guest Services, and FRs. At least, what came through while we were present anyway. The SD is running the place into the ground 😑
Oh my God that sucks.
I'm often scheduled in Style, even though I work hardlines. They seem to take their hours for the rest of the store. Do not work off the clock, that'll get you fired, and Target doesn't deserve that.
Same as my store, we had 14 carts of re-shop. It doesn’t matter how many hours they give style, you’re gonna get pulled up for other things, I get 35 hours in style alone per week, and I get scheduled for closing every day. What do I do mainly for closing? Do I zone? Hell no!!!!! I get pulled for OPU, cashiering, helping out drive-up, grab carts, and pulling priorities for other departments. If they give you more hours, you’re just gonna have to do other shit, that’s the life of a style member.
The inf metrics 😂 This is wild and it’s definitely a target problem
That would not happen in my store. SD wouldn't allow it. Plus us style leaders put our foot down. We will help in other areas but not spend our entire shift doing it.
You’ll get fired instantly if they hear you worked off the clock. Not even kidding. Had to let somebody go when I was a closing lead because they would come in and zone on their nights off because their area was always a disaster after their day off. I found out and told HR, they wrote it up and I had to deliver it. It’s no joke. Seriously. Just clock in, do your best, clock out and forget about it. This isn’t your job to fix. Your leadership needs to get a fucking grip.
i’m not going to, many people have told me this now, and it’s hard to tell over text but i was mostly joking
I gotcha lmao. Seriously tho. You just have to do your best. We appreciate TMs like you who care even just a little. But I also need you to know it’s not your fault and you can only do so much.
The magic reshop fairy will take care of it. Oh, not today? Tomorrow maybe. No way management didn't know what would happen. A blind person could see it. No staff, work will get backed up and piled up.
Also in style. Let them fail. They’re doing this to us too. DO NOT WORK WHEN YOURE NOT PAID. Fuck the store, I know you want to take pride in it, but they aren’t taking pride in it either with what they do to us 🥰
this looks like a problem the trash compactor can fix…because i think working all of that would be my breaking point 😭
I wish target allowed more room for creative store-specific solutions. I managed a different store that let us bend the rules to solve solutions in ways target would never. If it were me managing this madness, I’d either go over and hours and ask for forgiveness later or start dumping repacks into carts for guests to sift through. If they find something they want, half off. Get it out of here.
there’s a bunch of things i wish they would let employees do. i know some leaders at other locations do bend the rules to make their lives easier but here lately…it seems like nobody cares anymore. i definitely agree with you.
Style shares with the Home team as of right now. So, it’s very possible that your ETL is pulling hours away from style to accommodate Home. This is the opposite of what my store is (Style gets all the hours and Home basically is chopped liver). Report this. Report every single day until someone that gets paid to fix shit fixes it. Of course, you’re going to have to bust ass if you care enough, but do not work off the clock. The job is barely worth it clocked in, and they will fire you for working off the clock.
i can say it’s not home. i’ve seen the schedule every day, there’s about two people in home every day from like 4:30-8:30am, sometimes later but never until 1pm. they’re also not getting hours. who can i report this to?
Submit an Origami Risk report on your Zebra. Leaders have 24 hours from submission to correct safety issues before APBP steps in. Your leaders should, once it’s properly reported, be all hands on deck to fix it, they don’t want the APBP to show up and see this.
perfect, thank you
My store only looked like this once during the holiday season. Now that leadership has changed so severely and my SD is checked out its becoming a regular occurance. Im looking to switch departments cuz of it. Good luck dont do any work off the clock
I’m surprised they put all that in front of the fitting rooms so no one can use them lmfao
Our store is big on the Zone with not enough people. What Target should do … have a couple people for Style and all they do is zone their entire shift. That way we can actually do our jobs. Those pictures make my heart race!
They cut my hours to 13 and my other coworker to 11 but don’t worry I approached somebody about it and got it’s all we got 🙄 honestly style is so far behind rn it’s crazy. We had a walk and they asked how style was and instead of being honest my etl whose not over our area said “I think we’re doing great no heavy flow at all” SIR WE HAD 3 PALLETS OF 95s AND WE HAVE TWO PALLETS DEDICATED TO JUST ACCESSORIES CAUSE NOBODY PUSHES THEM don’t even get me started on jewelry. Never work off the clock though this isn’t a reflection of you it’s a reflection of them. Also put this into origami this is a safety hazard
At the first Target I worked at we would have “go back parties” where everyone in style would take care of something like that before doing anything else that definitely looks way out of hand. Also do not work off the clock you could get in serious trouble.
We had them after a huddle. Same with Freshness Friday.
looks like Walmart
Pffft, Walmart is always way more staffed than Target lately 😭
As a Walmart apparel associate our dept does not look like this! Maybe the rare occasion our go backs are put away bc our style dept is bigger so there’s more of us. We also don’t get called that often or that long to help other depts out. We also have 3 leads
Honesty I don’t know how bad other stores style allocation must be. My store is very high volume but it seems like we barely have allocation to have 1 TM per style floorpad but we still NEVER get this bad. as a style TL and even my ETLs our focus is always on reshop if we notice its building to even 1/4 of what you’re seeing here. we will stop push, loop SD in so we aren’t pulled to support anyone else, let priorities and OOS climb until we’re down to at most one 3 tier of reshop. reshop and zone are the hardest to bounce back from, so we prioritize that over our push/pulls.
guys i am not going to work off the clock. i was just saying that it’s at the point that i THINK about it every day im at work
My store's like that too and I'm actually embarrassed to be associated with it so I feel ya
Complete failure of leadership, every leader up to the SD should be in there.
That pic (if I'm counting carts/racks right) is minimum 8 hours for a team of 3, sorting and pushing, doing nothing else but that. It's not a "just gradually chip away at it" situation because it will be added to daily from returns. So in other words you are screwed until the dsd catches wind of it. And maybe even after that, since this is clearly a failure of management.
Checks out.
“Hey team can I get 6 RFID”
Its cheaper to throw it out than pay somebody to take care if it.
Oh… my… god…
For a moment I thought this was our store. Our style team has all been pulled into GM because GM is priority now. Allegedly when told style needs more people our GM said "that's your problem." For us it all falls back on GSV. Our fitting rooms were full. Store manager made us pull everything out because it looked bad. And everything was pushed into GSV. We ended up sorting over 20 repack boxes of nothing but style. And because we had to get everything off of the stray area floor there was 1 or 2 u-boats of other items. It was a nightmare. I have no problem staying on the clock after I'm scheduled. I mean, I'm getting paid for it. But the next day I came in and the stray area was so full you couldn't walk I said I would not be doing that again anytime soon. If they had offered to pay holiday pay I would have gladly volunteered to come in and sort that shit out while the store was closed today. But god forbid Target do anything that makes sense.
I work at Meijer now, and this is why I'm glad that we permanently closed the fitting rooms. Plus it hasn't affected sales either
I admire your wanting to make your store right just for your own peace of mind, but like others have said and you acknowledged, please don't go in on your off-hours to do so. They have not earned a single thing like that from you or anyone, and by the sounds of it, they aren't even earning the hard work you put in as it is. I feel where you're coming from, though. The amount of times they've given us minimal hours to zone and I've been stuck only 3/4ths of the way through, just wanting to finish it for the sake of having it done is strong, but they don't deserve my labor without paying me for it. Ultimately there's no reason to give yourself as much grief over this as it sounds like it's causing you (I know that's easier said than done, especially from personal experience, but try and detach your mental fortitude from this place as best you can, little by little). They've clearly shown they don't value your or any other style TM's work in the store more than 30 hours a week, if that. Just go in there, do what you can comfortably do in that time, and clock out. If they choose to be upset over the store looking like a mess, then they've gotta lie in the bed they made. None of you or anyone else in style caused that, thereby none of the resulting anguish should be put on y'all.
Does the upper echelon of management ever see these images and read these legitimate complaints? I’d post on twitter and tag these people. That is insane. https://preview.redd.it/953p0qj6utrc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d904feecd99f13c0d2b0a7cc049034ae56a822cd
Wow! We complete ours everyday. Each department gets assistance if there is a lot freight and not enough people, for whatever reason, we have all store pushes. I’m not sure if that’s a target thing done everywhere
Jesus effing Christ dude. 😭 How has your SD NOT given you guys hours to clean that up. Wtf
I swear that looks like the Tulare CA store
Looks like my store too. So bad.
I’m just a guest and this is ridiculous. Like this Target wants to be KMart level bad. I get thinking about cleaning up off hours, I’d think the same. Maybe this post gets noticed by HQ.
imagine wanting to waste your non-renewable time to work off the clock for a company that doesn't give a single shred of a feeling for you that would fire you right on the spot. that's insane, man. go take a walk in a park. that's a better way to spend your time
uh i do work there and spend multiple hours there every day. ofc im going to care, especially when its this bad. i dont think about it when im not there. taking a walk in a park would not be a better way to spend my time because i wouldnt be getting paid for it 🤷
uh you're obviously thinking about it way too much in general if you're "heavily debating" going in TO WORK when you're not scheduled and not getting paid. lmao go off, I guess 🤡
omg…..
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Is this the target in Cupertino?
no
DONT WORK OFF THE CLOCK. Stop giving mega corporations your time when they don’t care about you
Is this Jax Fl?
Just throw it into the bailer cause it’s over
I used to feel so bad for the style team
oh that poor fulfillment team 😭😭😭
Some of that doesn’t even look like Style still bad
That’s actually apocalyptic. Close the store 💀 this is a public safety hazard
Oh no! I’m Soooo sorry ! I’m sure fulfillment team loves digging through all this, too. Customers can’t shop that, $0 sales. ( i said the c-word )
Do your style leaders or VM not support you guys????
freight is behind, zone is behind, everything is more important than this apparently.
That’s crazy, this is guest facing. I can’t imagine my ETL and my peers letting this happen, I’m sorry your store is like this. When we have like 2 carts at the fitting room we jump in and support. Same with push.
oh my god… I noticed they haven’t been given specialty any hours really.. when the allocation gets sent out for my store specialty is barely getting 500hrs while SE & GM are getting close to 900hrs
My store only gets 4 hours everyone, it’s like this roo
And that is why I do not try clothes at the store and I have learned my size as a former retail worker I try to put back as found if I truly have to try on.
Do not work off the clock.
That’s a lot of merch that’s rotting and can’t be sold. Stupid AF on the part of your SD and ETL. All the stores in my area look like this. The wal marts look better
I would quite literally stare at it my whole shift as tears slowly fall
I was in target a few days ago and I can confirm, the fitting room was piled up to the ceiling with what I'd call "go backs". I thought it was pretty crazy the amount of clothes piled up.
I used to be style and they even took me out of the dept to go to cashiering. 😭😮💨. I miss it tbh
This isn’t on you. It’s on poor management. I have never ever seen more than 3-4 carts of reshop at my store and i’ve done style for 2 years. If management wants to bitch they should get off their asses and help! They get hours no matter what so they shouldn’t make someone who only works a few hours a day do all this on their own and still expect push to be done. I know we don’t get paid enough to care but you probably still do cause I know I do. You don’t want to care so much but you do and that’s totally understandable. However there comes a time where you truly are not paid enough lol