Target Reviews in Philadelphia, PA Area

Pros

Hours and some of the management was okay to work with. So were the benefits when it boiled down to it.

Cons

Not much room to truly progress in the company. Upper management weren't too involved when you needed them to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Work harder when communicating with your employees because we're people too. Don't make all the new guys do grunt jobs.

Pros

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decent benefits

Cons

excessive turnover
ridiculous hours
slow movement for career progression

Advice to Senior Management

get your hands dirty to gin respect of floor workers

Pros

The team is perhaps the redeeming factor of Target. The senior management tends to be a younger crowd but they are still competent individuals. Overall it is definitely a great place to work (starting out) but it would be tough to commit to a career.

Cons

The hours are tough and often extremely early, and it is sometimes difficult to balance your workload and your personal life.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure that you treat people as the intelligent beings that they are, we know you went to college but it doesn't make your expectations any more realistic. Rather than focusing on delegation you should really try to LBE (Lead By Example)

Pros

Good team environment; and good amount of hours

Cons

Pay was a little on the lower end

Advice to Senior Management

More opportunity to grow

Pros

Looks great one you resume.
Give you a chance to experience working in your field.

Cons

Lack in training.
confusion of your position

Advice to Senior Management

More effort into proper training

Pros

Pros

Everyone is fairly intelligent and really tries to help out co-workers with tasks. Customers or quests as they're called at target are given highest priority and helped out in a courtious manner all the time. The store is always clean and taken care of. All people on the floor are trained in accident prevention,chemical spills and register training. Over all the level of service is quite good.

Cons

Cons

The payscale is dismal. It takes forever to get sickdays,health benefits,and vacations. raises are slow and pretty bleak. Everyone is also on a part time basis and is scheduled according to whim. If Target wants to phase someone out all they have to do is cut back on their schedule. At $8.50 and hour entry salary three days a week is not a living wage. Even at five days or a full 40 hours the salary is down in the lowest payscales for a company that makes billions of dollars. They could afford to pay the hourly help a much better wage then they do.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure team leaders are competent and do their share of the work instead of walking around and doing basically nothing their entire shift.
Trust people more. Pay a living wage. Stop making the job a popularity contest instead of working on merit

Pros

Target is a well structured company with high expectations and standards.

Cons

You work long hours and extremely hard at Target. Even though Target promotes work/life balance, there is not much room for it.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue promoting work/life balance by providing more labor in the stores so ETLs do not have to work 10 to 12 hours per day. Also, provide your ETLs with a better bonus structure as well as a better ETL recogntion program. Provide opportunities for advancement.

Pros

you can get promoted pretty quickly! it doesnt go by senority. you get a raise every year and they order food alot

Cons

your raises arent ever what you expect it to be, in a bad way! You get trained to work a bunch of different areas just so that they can use and abuse you.

Advice to Senior Management

treat your employees with better respect. know and understand that even though you hold the title you are not superior to them and therefore you should not talk to them as if you are.

Pros

Technology driven company that will help you gain an understanding of retail sales and management. Generally open to improvement suggestions.

Cons

The company has almost become completely numbers driven. To the extent that they no longer seem to make good business decisions. In fact almost any decision takes almost forever to make

Advice to Senior Management

Trust those team members that have been with you for the long haul to make the right decisions

Pros

Pay is fair for the job position

Cons

Schedule is never the same other than management. Everyone is not treated equal. Have to work every weekend.Time off request are not honored. Management never last long so every few months ETL leave .Reviews are done to control pay rather than your work performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Have the same rules for all employees .Don't pick and choose who will be treated fairly based on your personal feelings of that team member.