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I worked at Target part-time (More than a year)
Pros
Benefits, employees friendly, more autonomy with guests
Cons
Normal customer service things (guests are rude), sometimes managers forget your breaks
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I worked at Target part-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Decent pay
Mostly friendly people
Lots of opportunities to work more hours
Cons
Unrealistic expectations
Poor management
Always asked to stay longer than shift length
I worked at Target full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
The people you work with (non Management). Discount comes in handy.
Cons
Management does not treat employees well. They do not appreciate "underlings" and like to play manager instead of managing by example.
Advice to Management
Show more appreciation to employees. Treat them like humans and not numbers.
I worked at Target full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Lots of friends can be made here. It's nice working in a store because when you go on break or get off of work, you can buy your household essentials instead of having to wait to get off of work and go to the store. Constantly moving. Everyday was something different.
Cons
Long days when on flow team because of lack of other employees. Most hire ups have favorites and don't help with the work load. Raises were pathetic. Cents on the dollar. If you make them mad at you because of whatever they will cut your hours. You are replaceable and they know that. Insurance is horrible. High deductible even when you have the best plan. No paid time off. You have to acquire your vacation time. There is no holiday days off. Company is open every day of the year besides 2. Christmas and Easter. Having to come in on Thanksgiving every year was very upsetting.
Advice to Management
Care more about your employees that always go above and beyond what they are supposed to do. The employees that always stay late and come in everyday on time and are cross trained because of their willingness need to be paid better.
I worked at Target part-time (More than a year)
Pros
Friendly co workers, breaks, can have tattoos and piercings and work there, good pay, opportunities to work more hours.
Cons
Random changes in protocol and procedures. Changes in management, new managers are not trained well.
Advice to Management
Train better managers, treat your employees like it’s a real team and not like they’re robots.
I have been working at Target part-time (More than a year)
Pros
10% store discount on everything
Good job for a kid in school
Short commute
Plenty of hours during the holidays
Cons
Hours cut in the “off” months
No health benefits for part-timers
Too much workload for one person
Management has a do as I say, not as I do philosophy
Productivity driven - “slow” team members get bullied and eventually let go
Advice to Management
It doesn’t matter — no one’s listening
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I worked at Target part-time (More than a year)
Pros
Discounts, flexible hours, decent pay
Cons
Rude customers, no room to move up
Advice to Management
Better pay
I have been working at Target full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Global work environment with many opportunities to learn ins and outs of retail business.
Cons
Stressful environment with inadequate pay
Advice to Management
Leaders need more training and stricter regulations to move up the chain.
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I have been working at Target part-time (More than a year)
Pros
Higher minimum wage than many companies. Computer scheduling system makes it easier to maintain work-life balance, rather than having to rely on the memory of busy managers. Not a "first-strike-you're-out" company - you are warned and counseled rather than punished for simple, first-time mistakes. Uniform is fairly flexible. Attendance is taken seriously, but ETLs/TLs are understanding of illness or other sudden emergencies, and it is fairly easy to exchange shifts with other members of your department.
Cons
Team member availability is often disregarded, even after months of no change, with TMs who have always had certain days off finding themselves scheduled on those days, and the responsibility of trading those shifts falls solely on them, rather than on the incompetence of HR. Disorganized. There is always a new (usually soon forgotten) policy being implemented, the store is always undergoing construction or renovation. It is easy for executive team leaders (ETLs) to push their responsibilities onto TMs, then hold the TMs responsible for incomplete workloads. Hours are cut constantly, usually for no apparent reason. Over the last two years, many full-time TMs have gone from 35-40-hour weeks to 10-15-hour weeks, even falling as low as 5-8-hour weeks. The good ETLs/TLs are often transferred between departments and stores if they don't quit first. Our current leads are apathetic at best and sycophantic at worst. Team lead promotion is encouraged, with the promise of paid tuition and flexible hours, but this is not the truth - there is not a single TL at my store who has not dropped out of school due to the impossibility of juggling TL hours and class schedules, regardless of opportunities for paid tuition. Last but not least - predatory behavior in our store's STL has been witnessed, reported, and silenced, and the individual involved seems to be protected by association with corporate, whereas victims aren't taken seriously and must either tolerate this behavior or quit.
Advice to Management
Take what your TMs say more seriously. Question the implementation of wasteful, inefficient policy before you assume that the results are due to your team. If your metrics look good but your loyal guests are no longer returning, you should probably stop relying on metrics as your sole indication of policy effectiveness.
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I have been working at Target full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Team member discount (10%)
Relative autonomy in my department because no other manager wants to come up to the front and deal with guests. :)
Cons
Upper management does not give clear direction to the business.
Store level management features a lot of recent college grads who have never managed in their life.
Pay really isn't competitve if you look around at similar positions.
Advice to Management
Stop hiring unqualified store executive level management fresh out of college when you have team leaders (department managers) with more experience and management skill who have been waiting sometimes a decade to promote.
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