Try to talk to your leader or someone that’s gotta be some sort of error. Completely illogical to have you only on the clock for 3 1/2 hours in an eight hour.
Super weird but now confirmed by TL and ETL that it is not an error and they did this on purpose. Not a college student at the moment, so not sure why they would schedule me this way. Some suggested in this post that it might be to shave hours or that you would be expected to just work right through it and ignore the break. Waiting to see what happens next!
It’s so stupid I don’t know what to do. If that happened to me I don’t have a car so I have to sit in a break room for four hours. I’ll probably just got home.
I think the last few years have proved that Target is falling behind on adapting to the changes in the market: hours have been cut dramatically, the fulfillment teams are overloaded, floor teams are struggling to keep up with the huge amount of product, prices are changing so much they're often wrong the next week, the DCs are messes, and not a lot of support from corporate other than to send out daily emails about how wonderful things are in the bullseye.
You are spot on with the price-changing issues. It's a constant issue at my store. It's hard for the regular staff to keep up with, and is usually just "spot treated."
I know Sears is fun to make fun of because it’s Sears, it’s important to remember that they lasted over 126 years while being horribly mismanaged for a large chunk of it. and honestly, it’d probably still be going if it wasn’t for its executives cannibalizing it and selling off anything valuable while refusing to invest in the stores.
The pasta sauce aisle is still a source of stress and terror for me. Our jars are on pushers that are so taut they launch like they're coming out of a slingshot. So many flung and broken jars...
Shake every bag of chips off my u-boat, O Lord, lest we forget the horrible drop between the salesfloor and the meat cooler, and from the meat cooler into the grocery backstock room, amen.
Have you by any chance worked at a Target at any point in time? I literally never heard of customers being referred to as "guests" until I worked there.
You're actually not wrong, there's pretty much zero downtime for rail workers right now and they're having serious issues with actually getting any respect/decency right now. I remember reading on here a few weeks ago how they weren't even allowed to go on strike because of the air traffic controller decision under Reagan.
had a guy tell me once that all his customers who came in after church wouldn’t tip because “he shouldn’t be working on the lord’s day” like do these people not realize they are the ones eating at these establishments ???
This is exactly why no one serves us/works for us on our day of rest. Going out to eat defeats the point of everyone having the opportunity to rest and recenter. We stay at home and lounge around like lions.
I know it's insane fast food isn't exactly the cheap quick deal it's supposed to be anymore and pizza places, at least near me, are becoming so expensive I can go to an actual restaurant for the same price. Entrees that used to be $13 are like 20 something now. Hell even a salad is like $10. And let's face it it's not like average pizzeria salads are that great. Fried calamari which not even a year ago was a $8 appetizer is $18 now.
We used to get takeaway pizza from a lil' mom and pop but it's around $50 for two large pizzas now. So we take the money we would spend at the mom and pop and do a rotating pizza bar at another mom and pop and get more options, better atmosphere.
I 55M used to work janitorial at 16 years old for a cleaning company. Every business I went into I dreaded cleaning the women's bathroom. Not that the men's bathroom was a walk in a rosy garden but I was actually shocked by the comparison.
As a woman who used to clean gyms, this, so much. The men's bathroom always had some kinda musky funk and a mold problem, but the women's bathroom was like a John Carpenter horror nightmare. Half of this was caused by them taking their kids in there because that duty is thrust on women more often than not, and half of it was women not knowing how to handle their own cycle blood cleanup. Hurgh.
Yeah, I'm not saying office work is paradise or that things shouldn't be improved or that office workers don't deserve better pay, but I've been in the retail/fast food/trades sector pretty much all my working life, and I would do ANYTHING to not have to wake up at the break of dawn, bust my ass doing physical work, get kept late, sacrifice my days off, and get talked down to and taken advantage of by asshole bosses anymore. I broke out with a heat rash at my last job because I was doing physical work in high 90 degree heat. Just working in an air conditioned environment would be amazing for me.
Yeah, but when they're specifically asking what you hated? Like "I hated that it was such a positive environment with all the best people, I just couldn't take how great it was!" something like that?
I basically said that I didn't want to say anything mean about them because I always try to see a silver lining wherever I am and learn something from every experience (which is true). I described some of the things I learned about how effective teams should actually work based on what I observed during my time there (what not to do), and how those lessons could be applied beyond that environment at a broad level to any new team.
Target ignored this completely today during our team meeting and instead gave us a fresh round of "active shooter trainings" while reminding us to sign up for the volunteer pride parade. It was, however, playing nonstop in the breakroom because the news had been put on.
Obesity is sometimes a complication of another illness, but it's more often an environmental disease than anything else, and it's certainly not a moral disease. Many ignorant privileged folks in the middle or upper class will see how many obese people live in poverty and self-righteously snort, "Well, obviously all of the money is going down his/her throat." The truth of the matter is it's not obesity that makes someone poor, it's the other way around, poverty results in obesity. Having the money to afford fresh ingredients and eat a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, as well as having the free time to cook homemade meals, makes one less likely to have to depend on the cheap, heavily processed food that can result in obesity even among active individuals.
I've gained something like 60 lbs since I started back into retail work after my WFH job got demolished as a result of the pandemic because I no longer have control over when I take breaks, when I get to eat, and when I get to drink. It's obscene just how awful poverty-level work is for your body--not just from the perspective of physical labor, but from the toll it takes on your sleep and overall health.
Not sure if /s or not, because without the paper right now, it's really hard to get the blade to cut the wood to boil the water in the metal pot that you need to survive in nature without getting killed by bacteria in the water. Or to get the blade that you need to shape the bow that you will use to hunt the food. If you can make the blade, you still have to have the wood to stoke the fire and the hammer to beat it into shape which brings you right back to the paper.
Until we all have control over our own housing, a lot of that $2K would just end up subsidizing landlords even more than they already are, and the wealth hoarding game begins again.
Plus, in many cases, they only have at or within a month of birth to safely surrender said babies with no repercussions. Most "Safe Haven" laws have an age cap creating even more issues and pointing out the obvious bias at the same time.
I dream about sitting down all day long while I'm at work. I dream of sipping cool water whenever I need a drink. My feet have gotten ugly and painful from standing all day, and I have the best shoes I could posssibly have for the job. No amount of shoe is changing the day-in, day-out beating feet take on concrete floors.
Lucky fuckin you, I can't afford the present 130,000 down payment it costs to get a two bedroom shithole in my city due to how disgustingly inflated this bubble is.
Is there any way for you to work remote? I know with some rural loans you don't need a down payment. Not sure if this is applicable for your work, though.
Not an expert in the area. Wife and I relocated to NC from the northeast. We're doing okay with 2 kids. The housing market is a little stupid everywhere, though.
The wages in NC for the average joe cause me some serious damage, though. Lived in the area from 2012-2015 and the average going rate for base labor was $9/HR. Can't imagine it's gotten that much better. I knew folks who had degrees and they were still only earning about $60K max. A 2 Bedroom apartment was going for around $1200 a month back then, though.
This is the only solution. Half our federal taxes go to war machine and the rest go to this shit. Everything we all bitch about would be solved by cutting off the head by not paying federal taxes. “BuT wHo WiLl pAy fOr the RoAds?”
Fed taxes are a result of needing money for war chests anyway, so, yeah. War spending goes directly against the creed "Do not murder," yet I don't see anyone in gubment cutting war spending any time soon. Interesting how their religion only extends to reproductive control and gay rights.
Can people that live in the USA order from Athleta Canada? Some of the items the CA stores carry aren't in stock south of the border.
Try to talk to your leader or someone that’s gotta be some sort of error. Completely illogical to have you only on the clock for 3 1/2 hours in an eight hour.
Super weird but now confirmed by TL and ETL that it is not an error and they did this on purpose. Not a college student at the moment, so not sure why they would schedule me this way. Some suggested in this post that it might be to shave hours or that you would be expected to just work right through it and ignore the break. Waiting to see what happens next!
It’s so stupid I don’t know what to do. If that happened to me I don’t have a car so I have to sit in a break room for four hours. I’ll probably just got home.
Ended up working this bizarre split shift to avoid a lecture on "attendance." Still find it totally confusing but it hasn't happened again since.
That kind of house is going for $450K+ right now in the nearby 'burbs.
Is it still the same price for you?
$29/Mo billed every three months, now.
It's omega because cards are handled by vendor. Oof.
I think the last few years have proved that Target is falling behind on adapting to the changes in the market: hours have been cut dramatically, the fulfillment teams are overloaded, floor teams are struggling to keep up with the huge amount of product, prices are changing so much they're often wrong the next week, the DCs are messes, and not a lot of support from corporate other than to send out daily emails about how wonderful things are in the bullseye.
You are spot on with the price-changing issues. It's a constant issue at my store. It's hard for the regular staff to keep up with, and is usually just "spot treated."
I know Sears is fun to make fun of because it’s Sears, it’s important to remember that they lasted over 126 years while being horribly mismanaged for a large chunk of it. and honestly, it’d probably still be going if it wasn’t for its executives cannibalizing it and selling off anything valuable while refusing to invest in the stores.
Frankly, I wish Sears was still around. Maybe then I'd be able to buy an affordable house like they used to out of the catalogs.
I work in grocery. Things falling terrifies me I don't want to clean. I don't want to fucking clean please don't make me clean.....
The pasta sauce aisle is still a source of stress and terror for me. Our jars are on pushers that are so taut they launch like they're coming out of a slingshot. So many flung and broken jars...
Shake every bag of chips off my u-boat, O Lord, lest we forget the horrible drop between the salesfloor and the meat cooler, and from the meat cooler into the grocery backstock room, amen.
Well at least it doesn't insist they're guests.
Have you by any chance worked at a Target at any point in time? I literally never heard of customers being referred to as "guests" until I worked there.
Chinese laborers???
I can't tell if this is a reference to 996 work culture or railroad slavery, myself.
Is it really much of a difference? I have family on the railroad and I can’t tell the difference.
You're actually not wrong, there's pretty much zero downtime for rail workers right now and they're having serious issues with actually getting any respect/decency right now. I remember reading on here a few weeks ago how they weren't even allowed to go on strike because of the air traffic controller decision under Reagan.
They're asking because they want to railroad you at the new job. Don't tell them.
Some of the price jumps I've seen at work that make my head spin over the last six months:
had a guy tell me once that all his customers who came in after church wouldn’t tip because “he shouldn’t be working on the lord’s day” like do these people not realize they are the ones eating at these establishments ???
This is exactly why no one serves us/works for us on our day of rest. Going out to eat defeats the point of everyone having the opportunity to rest and recenter. We stay at home and lounge around like lions.
I know it's insane fast food isn't exactly the cheap quick deal it's supposed to be anymore and pizza places, at least near me, are becoming so expensive I can go to an actual restaurant for the same price. Entrees that used to be $13 are like 20 something now. Hell even a salad is like $10. And let's face it it's not like average pizzeria salads are that great. Fried calamari which not even a year ago was a $8 appetizer is $18 now.
We used to get takeaway pizza from a lil' mom and pop but it's around $50 for two large pizzas now. So we take the money we would spend at the mom and pop and do a rotating pizza bar at another mom and pop and get more options, better atmosphere.
I 55M used to work janitorial at 16 years old for a cleaning company. Every business I went into I dreaded cleaning the women's bathroom. Not that the men's bathroom was a walk in a rosy garden but I was actually shocked by the comparison.
As a woman who used to clean gyms, this, so much. The men's bathroom always had some kinda musky funk and a mold problem, but the women's bathroom was like a John Carpenter horror nightmare. Half of this was caused by them taking their kids in there because that duty is thrust on women more often than not, and half of it was women not knowing how to handle their own cycle blood cleanup. Hurgh.
Yeah, I'm not saying office work is paradise or that things shouldn't be improved or that office workers don't deserve better pay, but I've been in the retail/fast food/trades sector pretty much all my working life, and I would do ANYTHING to not have to wake up at the break of dawn, bust my ass doing physical work, get kept late, sacrifice my days off, and get talked down to and taken advantage of by asshole bosses anymore. I broke out with a heat rash at my last job because I was doing physical work in high 90 degree heat. Just working in an air conditioned environment would be amazing for me.
Plus, the things that happen to your feet...
Yeah, but when they're specifically asking what you hated? Like "I hated that it was such a positive environment with all the best people, I just couldn't take how great it was!" something like that?
I basically said that I didn't want to say anything mean about them because I always try to see a silver lining wherever I am and learn something from every experience (which is true). I described some of the things I learned about how effective teams should actually work based on what I observed during my time there (what not to do), and how those lessons could be applied beyond that environment at a broad level to any new team.
Dude if someone threatened your work with a bomb they'd be like "Back to work" the next hour.
They did tell them to keep working during the WTC collapse.
Target ignored this completely today during our team meeting and instead gave us a fresh round of "active shooter trainings" while reminding us to sign up for the volunteer pride parade. It was, however, playing nonstop in the breakroom because the news had been put on.
Obesity is sometimes a complication of another illness, but it's more often an environmental disease than anything else, and it's certainly not a moral disease. Many ignorant privileged folks in the middle or upper class will see how many obese people live in poverty and self-righteously snort, "Well, obviously all of the money is going down his/her throat." The truth of the matter is it's not obesity that makes someone poor, it's the other way around, poverty results in obesity. Having the money to afford fresh ingredients and eat a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, as well as having the free time to cook homemade meals, makes one less likely to have to depend on the cheap, heavily processed food that can result in obesity even among active individuals.
I've gained something like 60 lbs since I started back into retail work after my WFH job got demolished as a result of the pandemic because I no longer have control over when I take breaks, when I get to eat, and when I get to drink. It's obscene just how awful poverty-level work is for your body--not just from the perspective of physical labor, but from the toll it takes on your sleep and overall health.
The top 2 results I get are from congress.gov and the AFL-CIO
It makes me wonder why I'm getting so many anti-ads against it--Could it be the state we're from? I'm from TX.
Didn't think of that. Could be. IL here.
Is IL more of a pro-union state?
You're allowed to go get those things from nature, just as humans always have. You don't need a piece of paper.
Not sure if /s or not, because without the paper right now, it's really hard to get the blade to cut the wood to boil the water in the metal pot that you need to survive in nature without getting killed by bacteria in the water. Or to get the blade that you need to shape the bow that you will use to hunt the food. If you can make the blade, you still have to have the wood to stoke the fire and the hammer to beat it into shape which brings you right back to the paper.
Just a simple UBI maybe like 2k a month every 18+ American would be simple and straightforward. Cut the other welfare if need be
Until we all have control over our own housing, a lot of that $2K would just end up subsidizing landlords even more than they already are, and the wealth hoarding game begins again.
The decline is in American babies surrendered at or within a month of birth. Because past that; adopters don’t want them.
Plus, in many cases, they only have at or within a month of birth to safely surrender said babies with no repercussions. Most "Safe Haven" laws have an age cap creating even more issues and pointing out the obvious bias at the same time.
From the brief:
That rock used to cost $3.95. It's probably $6.95 now. That's money they could have put toward her raise.
I dream about sitting down all day long while I'm at work. I dream of sipping cool water whenever I need a drink. My feet have gotten ugly and painful from standing all day, and I have the best shoes I could posssibly have for the job. No amount of shoe is changing the day-in, day-out beating feet take on concrete floors.
Lucky fuckin you, I can't afford the present 130,000 down payment it costs to get a two bedroom shithole in my city due to how disgustingly inflated this bubble is.
Is there any way for you to work remote? I know with some rural loans you don't need a down payment. Not sure if this is applicable for your work, though.
Not an expert in the area. Wife and I relocated to NC from the northeast. We're doing okay with 2 kids. The housing market is a little stupid everywhere, though.
The wages in NC for the average joe cause me some serious damage, though. Lived in the area from 2012-2015 and the average going rate for base labor was $9/HR. Can't imagine it's gotten that much better. I knew folks who had degrees and they were still only earning about $60K max. A 2 Bedroom apartment was going for around $1200 a month back then, though.
This is the only solution. Half our federal taxes go to war machine and the rest go to this shit. Everything we all bitch about would be solved by cutting off the head by not paying federal taxes. “BuT wHo WiLl pAy fOr the RoAds?”
Fed taxes are a result of needing money for war chests anyway, so, yeah. War spending goes directly against the creed "Do not murder," yet I don't see anyone in gubment cutting war spending any time soon. Interesting how their religion only extends to reproductive control and gay rights.