Target Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Competitive compensation and nice people.

Cons

Work - Life balance. Very difficult to take time off.

Advice to Senior Management

Better recognition needed for team members.

Pros

Management can be very nice and they generally take your side when you get a complaint.
You usually have the opportunity to switch jobs within the store, such as going from a cashier to salesfloor to food ave, softlines, Guest services, ect..
Other team members are very nice and very fun to work with.
Clean break room.

Cons

Management doesn't recognize you when you yourself do something deserving recognition. Instead they just fill the lounge with junk food which isn't everybodies idea of a 'job well done'.
Management often times act like being an LOD is some secret group and their too good to talk to other team members. Other times certain LOD's are just out rude/disrespectful.
The best thing I ever heard was an LOD telling another LOD (But not the cashiers) that "The cashiers did a great job today." It would've been more fulfilling if the LOD had told us instead of another LOD.
You can't have a drink at your register.
They skip breaks if you don't keep on them about it.
They'll schedule you 5.75 hours and have you practically running to the time clock so they won't have to give you a lunch.
You are required to sell a certain amount of redcards each month and If you don't sell that many, you can be fired for not doing your job; even though management agrees that it's a 'luck' thing.
The only clean bathrooms in the whole store are in the backroom, the employee bathroom's.

They're constantly hiring new people to avoid paying any employee for overtime, why hire new people who don't know the job instead of just paying overtime to an experienced employee who can do the job better/faster?

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize us individually, not as a whole. You feel more like you've been acknowledged for doing a good job when you yourself are praised.
Understand that most of us have stressful lives outside of work, most of us are in college or have kids. Try to work with us, if we call out we're not doing it to put you in a bind, we're not doing it because we're lazy, it's a last option because something happened that absolutely cannot avoid.
Don't ever tell a team member that work comes before school, we don't plan on working here as a career, and would you tell your kids something so ridiculous? Sorry but I paid close to $900 out of pocket for these classes, school comes first.

Don't forget that employee's are people too, treat us like people. We make mistakes, most of us are trying really hard to keep our jobs, if we make a mistake it's not a big deal. All that means is that we'll do better next time.

Pros

flexibility
casual
employee discount
work ethics

Cons

not for professional carrier
unprofessional
low wage
not so good benefit

Advice to Senior Management

need to more recognition for high peformer

Pros

Decent hours, good pay for Leadership roles, flexible to personal schedules

Cons

Promotions based on education, too much promotion for ethnicity rather than skill

Advice to Senior Management

Step back and look at what you are asking your employees to do and listen to what they have to say.

Pros

-Management appreciates all team member
-Work as a team
-Fun environment
-Decent pay
-Room for advancement if you're motivated
-Management is willing to train motivated individuals

Cons

-Working late nights on weekends and holidays
-Some employees are allowed to skate by

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure new team members are properly trained on everything! Most training is conducted through another team member and followed up by a team lead.

Pros

*Benefits
*Volunteer events
*Friendly team (minus upper-management)
*Got my own desk

Cons

*Retail hours
*Pay is not high $35k
*Discount is a joke 10%??? Pathetic
*Schedule changes every week. Never a set schedule.
*Work/ Life balance sucked
*Upper Management was blind to improvements
*Workload was at times unreal for 1 person to handle
*When payroll was low, things went from bad to worse. Expected to do the work of 3 people.
*Training sucked.
*People that get promotions are nothing but suck-ups.

Advice to Senior Management

People that suck-up don't deserve to be promoted. Take your time and look for the actual hard workers. People that delegate ALL of their work and don't do anything deserve to be written up.

Pros

Some flexibility(to an extent)
You may swap shifts if desired as well as pick other team members shift.
OK hours.

Cons

No overtime.
The pay is not enough, bottom of the food chain.
People that slack usually get their 40 hours (or close) while people that work hard get mediocre hours.
There's a lot of unnecessary stress that comes from management and their lack of communication and professionalism.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more profesional & answer guest assistance.

Pros

The team work aspect of things is really good. They are very flexible with hours as well. The 10% employee discount is a plus. Friendly culture.

Cons

The pay is not so good for employee level. some may not like the culture as either. most importantly its retail enough said

Advice to Senior Management

It would be great if there was more transparency regarding advancement. Feedback on ways to improve as well. A road map for individual who might be looking in for longterm employment.

Pros

Free Shirt u get for working.

Cons

Manual Labor, like a construction worker

Advice to Senior Management

Just need to learn to organize decision making as well as clarifiying with different departments on what needs to be done.

Pros

Daily recognition on performance from other lower level team members.
Benefits.
Flexibility when scheduling

Cons

Senior Management lack of recognition of lower level team memberss
Higher Pay compensation for logistic members.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Team Leader respect and acknowledge lower level team members on a daily basis. STL should be personable and social to all team member not only Executive Team Leaders.