MY JOB
I hate it.
Want to know why?
There are quite a few reasons really.
1- The pay is far too low for everything I do and all that I have to put up with.
2- The management is pretty poor.
3- My workplace is not a happy place.
For those of you who don't know, I am currently employed at Target in Silverdale. My job title is "backroom" and my responsibility is to pull tubs of merchandise each hour from 11 AM to 5 PM. My other responsibilities include cleaning, back stocking items that won't fit on the floor, and finding items in the back for customers.
Though the motto of the company is "Fast, Fun and Friendly!", I can assure you that it only looks that way on the exterior. The inner workings of the company are very angry and ugly, with much mutiny and backstabbing.
On top of it all, it seems as though I have become the scape goat for this Target store. Meaning that if anything goes wrong, somehow, some way, it is my fault.
Example: One of my ex-co-workers walks out of his job in the first hour of his shift and in the middle of mine. He was the closing person and I was the mid. Since he left and no one would be able to cover his portion of the work, they ask me to stay late. Being the good samaritan that I am, I oblige and take on the work load. I finish the last hour of pulling merchandise, which would be after 5 o'clock. However, since no one was available to help me at all, I was not able to take care of much of the backstock that was left behind from overstocking the sales floor. But since I was going to run into overtime (Which, if you work at Target, overtime is quite the sin,) I had to clock out of the shift and go home. I felt good about the work that I had done and hoped that the store would be able to handle what I had left them.
The next day, I walk into the store and ALL DAY, I get no recognition. Which is COMPLETELY fine. I understand that sometimes good deeds go un-noticed. That's no big deal.
However, my boss does call me into her office at some point in the day. I think to myself, "Maybe she is going to thank me for what I did yesterday." or "Maybe she is going to explain what happened with the dude that walked out." But once I step into her office, she puts some paperwork in front of me and tells me I am going to get a 'coaching'. What is a coaching you might ask? Why that is when your boss explains to you EVERYTHING that you are doing wrong and why you are such an idiot.
Now, for everything that she presented to me, I had an explanation. But it doesn't matter what I have to say because I am merely a backroom boy and have no merit and obviously no intelligence. Some of the claims that she had made were downright ridiculous and made no sense at all. Like that I had been seen multiple times just hanging out in the store with my girlfriend while I was on the clock and that I had been personally confronted MANY times about how that was not ok. When, in fact, no one in the whole store knows who my girlfriend is, no one has ever seen nor met her, and DEFINITELY no one has ever confronted me about my behavior.
Eventually, I got tired of trying to explain myself and just started nodding and saying "OK."
It's absolute crap that people have to deal with this kind of thing.
Basically the message of this post is "If you think about applying at Target, DON'T." And I hope you all heed that warning.
Sheesh. I can't wait to be a cop.
Want to know why?
There are quite a few reasons really.
1- The pay is far too low for everything I do and all that I have to put up with.
2- The management is pretty poor.
3- My workplace is not a happy place.
For those of you who don't know, I am currently employed at Target in Silverdale. My job title is "backroom" and my responsibility is to pull tubs of merchandise each hour from 11 AM to 5 PM. My other responsibilities include cleaning, back stocking items that won't fit on the floor, and finding items in the back for customers.
Though the motto of the company is "Fast, Fun and Friendly!", I can assure you that it only looks that way on the exterior. The inner workings of the company are very angry and ugly, with much mutiny and backstabbing.
On top of it all, it seems as though I have become the scape goat for this Target store. Meaning that if anything goes wrong, somehow, some way, it is my fault.
Example: One of my ex-co-workers walks out of his job in the first hour of his shift and in the middle of mine. He was the closing person and I was the mid. Since he left and no one would be able to cover his portion of the work, they ask me to stay late. Being the good samaritan that I am, I oblige and take on the work load. I finish the last hour of pulling merchandise, which would be after 5 o'clock. However, since no one was available to help me at all, I was not able to take care of much of the backstock that was left behind from overstocking the sales floor. But since I was going to run into overtime (Which, if you work at Target, overtime is quite the sin,) I had to clock out of the shift and go home. I felt good about the work that I had done and hoped that the store would be able to handle what I had left them.
The next day, I walk into the store and ALL DAY, I get no recognition. Which is COMPLETELY fine. I understand that sometimes good deeds go un-noticed. That's no big deal.
However, my boss does call me into her office at some point in the day. I think to myself, "Maybe she is going to thank me for what I did yesterday." or "Maybe she is going to explain what happened with the dude that walked out." But once I step into her office, she puts some paperwork in front of me and tells me I am going to get a 'coaching'. What is a coaching you might ask? Why that is when your boss explains to you EVERYTHING that you are doing wrong and why you are such an idiot.
Now, for everything that she presented to me, I had an explanation. But it doesn't matter what I have to say because I am merely a backroom boy and have no merit and obviously no intelligence. Some of the claims that she had made were downright ridiculous and made no sense at all. Like that I had been seen multiple times just hanging out in the store with my girlfriend while I was on the clock and that I had been personally confronted MANY times about how that was not ok. When, in fact, no one in the whole store knows who my girlfriend is, no one has ever seen nor met her, and DEFINITELY no one has ever confronted me about my behavior.
Eventually, I got tired of trying to explain myself and just started nodding and saying "OK."
It's absolute crap that people have to deal with this kind of thing.
Basically the message of this post is "If you think about applying at Target, DON'T." And I hope you all heed that warning.
Sheesh. I can't wait to be a cop.