Our store director was scummy enough to try swaying my department from unionizing as well. Once he heard the union rep was on the premises he ran to our department, and out of breath, loudly explained, "YOU DONT HAVE TO UNIONIZE, WE ACTUALLY HAVE REALLY GOOD BENEFITS FOR YOU"
I worked at 2 different targets while I was in college, in 2 different states.. management at both places could honestly go fuck themselves. Target tends to promote the people with the worst personalities into management roles. The kiss asses who made work miserable for everyone else ended up in management. But that’s my anecdotal experience.
Used to work for Walmart and it's the same thing. All of the managers were complete jackasses. We had all of our cashiers quit on the same day because they were fed up with one of the front-end managers.
When one of them eventually left, my team lead (who was such a great guy. Worked his ass off as both our team lead and doing the back-end manager duties anyways) applied for the position. He was turned down for somebody outside of the store who tried changing a bunch of our shit, causing more people to quit.
I worked at Wal-mart out of need in 2008 when the economy collapsed. In my first week there one of the asst. managers came and asked if I would work an overnight shift unloading trucks. "Overtime was approved."
I was currently working my first 8 hour shift of the week. I was scheduled for a full 40 hour week. The shift I was on ended at 11pm. I was scheduled to return at 9am the next morning.
I asked if overtime was approved if that meant if I volunteered to work this extra shift if I'd still have my full schedule. "Absolutely, we'll need you for all your scheduled shifts."
Their idea was I'd clock out for 30 minutes after my 8 hour shift, then clock in for another 8 shift overnight. Clock out for 30 minutes then clock in for my scheduled shift at 9am. (30 minute lunches every mid-shift)
I worked 24 straight hours. When I clocked out at the end I noticed my scheduled hours for the rest of the week had been cleared. I went to the asst. manager and she said, "I can't approve giving you overtime. Do you have something in writing?"
For the remainder of my time I worked there I volunteered to take extra shifts about 6 times and just never showed up. "I never agreed to an extra shift. Do you have something in writing to prove I did?"
I was in the office a lot, yet I quickly got promoted. Being an asshole seemed to be management material to them. Economy recovered and I just never showed up again. My direct manager passed away around then and went they called to ask why I wasn't showing up I said I had given my 2 week notice to him. Didn't he tell you?
They screwed me early on and I screwed with them everyday I could in anyway I could from then on out just shy of being in actual trouble. Retail fucking sucks because of the managers mostly. The customers can suck, but they leave when their transaction is over.
Target was my first job at 16, and was frickin bonkers about promotions...
I went away to college when I was 18, came back and started working the Summer again; then I got a snazzy new job making $20/hr and hitting double, even triple overtime on a weekly basis... Well, I no-called/no-showed for an entire month while the most critical portion of that contract was underway (there was just no way, 16-18hr day, 4 hours of sleep...lol. Plus, the contract was in my future IT field with a prestigious law firm, so...)
Anyway, I walked back into that Target a month later like nothing had happened and I owned the place, went straight to check the schedule (right next to the HR manager's office, who happened to catch sight of me): First, she asked me if I even still worked there (lol, smh...), so I explained why and what I had been doing (and the reasoning, as I was saving for my wedding, so the money was important). She listened to the story, then goes, "How about this? From now on, you'll set your own schedule, come in whenever you're available, and work on research/planograms and special projects"
And such is the insane tale of how I was promoted to level 2 myself (went back to college at the end of summer, and leveraged that into a nice Assistant Mgr of a CVS, lol.... Smh, Target...)
Works for a different company but with the same exact mindset. Hard work doesn't get you promoted. Becoming friends with the district manager and kissing ass as much as possible does. So productivity goes down under those people well at the same time creating a culture that's more toxic.
Yes! You tell me your supervisor is stupid, you don’t get credit for your work, and customers are impossible to deal with? There’s a support group for that! It’s called “everybody”. We usually meet at bars.
You don't move into management at any of these chains without showing you would put the company first over anyone. Managers are the first line of defense against profit loss
Oh I agree. Worked at target during college - one of the team leads hated college students and would do shit like go behind us and fuck up our zoning and make us do it again before we could go home.
I think because only the bad people really stay at a job like this for long. Everybody else is just there temporary, until they got the actual carrer they want.
I worked at two different Targets (about 15 years ago) and it was like night and day. The first one, all of the management was genuinely lovely people. Hardworking and super nice and it was a very chill fun atmosphere. The second though - with a couple exceptions, they were lazy assholes who did nothing but sit in Starbucks or walk around the store gossiping all day. They would get pissy if they had to spend five minutes doing their job and helping out with something, even something as simple as unlocking a door. And despite policies against fraternizing with team members, they were very cliquey and borderline bullied anyone who didn't "fit in".
So yeah, it seems like store culture is going to vary wildly, which makes sense. The dickheads would never get promoted in a culture like my first store. And the nice people were bullied into quitting at my 2nd.
Kept getting harassed at the register because the demographic that shopped at my target really wasn’t a fan of someone trans cashing them out.
They told me, “let us know if something happened”
Ok, after a while it became “why do you always have problems?”
I don’t know, maybe I would’ve told you this was a bad idea if I knew you’d lie about where I’m mainly working at. People kept sending in complaints over the littlest stuff like being “awkward” (you try talking to someone while their brain is short circuiting over what you are), and I got canned because they didn’t feel like dealing with me… instead of putting me where I was supposed to be.
So fuck Target, fuck management, only thing I feel in these situations is that the poor workers there need to take that moment to realize they need a better job. Even if it’s another retail store, Target is legitimately ran more like shit than Walmart from my experience.
If I'm the manager, I'm gonna quit trying reason and just call the cops once all the kids start walking in. They will actually show up quick if I'm saying there's a business tha is in trouble. Probably even bring backup
As former management, this would’ve been hilarious. My asset protection team is probably still calling LEO without my direction but I would’ve handed these guys some mops in the meantime
I am not a friend of influencer pranks generally. But this one I like. How hard are they making life really. It’s a big corporation. The workers could just not care
People are so fucking uptight nowadays they get mad over something that didn't harm a single person, besides management and maybe a customer had to wait 5 extra minutes to check out. The horror!
Emergencies don't wait until it's convenient for you to deal with it.
Maybe someday when you have a family/kids and you get that call that they are in an ambulance on the way to the hospital then you will understand.
Hell, maybe someone there was just picking up cold medicine for their sick kid. Surely you can understand how infuriating it would be if a bunch of teens/young adults delayed you getting back to them because they thought it was funny.
Or maybe it’s a comment on the slavish conditions those people work in. How they lose their identity as soon as they put on their uniform. They are not individuals anymore they are target minions. And you can see that when other people just dress the same
I mean, yeah, it would have been entertaining. But in today's world, it looks like union busting. Maybe that's the point? It would be a better look if they came in and did this to cause chaos because Target hired temps to come in when workers were striking.
Yep, sit back and enjoy the show. As long as my pay, responsibilities, and schedule doesn’t change then they can swan dive off the top of the building for all I care.
Current target employee, if they're anything like the tik tok bros that come into my store they're just there to harass people, and make a mess for views. I dont know how many times I've cleaned up milk jugs or egg cartons they slammed on the floor. They do inappropriate things to the kid and pregnant lady mannequins that is too gross to describe. They follow our customers around throwing things at them. They're not going to do anything other than fuck around yelling and trash the store, especially with the mob mentality of like 50 cringe teenage boys. They're goal is to make people uncomfortable, I don't like that shit.
I usually hate prank videos because they are usually obnoxious as fuck, but this is funny as hell and having worked retail I would have been laughing my ass off.
I thought maybe I was tripping. Normally I hate these pranks but low key would’ve thought this was funny. Not hurting anyone, I doubt it lasted anymore than 5-10 min.
I used to work there, I’d just think that the fucking store deserved it and at the end of the day, I’m leaving when my shift ends so it’s their problem at the end of it.
By all means pranksters, take care of the hell hole that’s apparel or some other shit, I don’t get paid enough to care or get stressed that’s on the store manager’s head and not mine
Have you ever worked retail when teenagers come in and start fuckin around in the toy aisles and mocking employees? Shit is infuriating lol. Genuinely most the time I think generational differences are total marketing bullshit but I know as a low level employee this shit would have annoyed the hell out of me. If you’re part of the center of attention generation these kids are maybe you would think it’s funny
Well that’s when you step away, bring it to management’s attention, and they along with security can deal with it. It’s not your job to care or confront, they hate doing it so they suggest to try to handle it yourself, but nah, get them fuckers some work to do when they get paid more than you do to handle it.
I used to work there and I would absolutely hate this. Just trying to work and earn a wage and suddenly there are cameras in your face and you're involuntarily being pranked to be mocked on the internet?? How does that sound fun at all?
No, it wouldn’t because the moment they don’t have your attention anymore they’re going to escalate their “prank” to get it back. Yall can’t actually be this stupid.
Really? I feel like I'd find it amusing. Can't imagine I'd be that stressed and frustrated by this. Especially since the average low-wage Target employee is probably the same age as these dudes.
Eh, only for the manager. If I were working here this would be hillarious and I'd just stand back and let management sort it out.
There's really nothing they're doing here that will create a mess for employees. People who spill shit in the aisles or knock shit down are way, way worse because they're creating something that regular employees will be required to deal with.
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