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[myowndecember]

hello all! i'm hillary and i have worked at target for almost a year now. i started as a cashier but was quickly whisked away to the salesfloor where i have been for the past 10 months now [yay softlines!]. i work at t-1181 in hickory, north carolina. target has been making me irritable lately and i'm hoping to get away from there soon, but mostly

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[berlybug]

what been going on lately to make you irritable?

[myowndecember]

yeah, a lot of stuff. i edited my post to include it all :)

[berlybug]

whoa ok. yea thats definitely not right to have married team leads in the same dept, big no-no.

2nd, to you only getting 20-25 hours...have they hired more people for the back to school season, thats a possibility. also, the scheduler automatically shoots people outs for shifts and if the HR/your exec feels that it sould be changed, then they manually change it.

3rd, when you applied for the specialist position, did you receive an interview because you should have even if they "knew" who they wanted. if you "pasted" those interviews, you should be signed off for a future specialist position that becomes available.

let me know what happens because i'm curious!

[myowndecember]

they haven't hired any more people. we lost two, then we hired two. but we lost a team lead. so really, we are short one person. no new people have been hired for BTS yet. and my schedule did get automatically shot out and our interim STL (who used to be in HR) found out that my schedule had been changed when we automatically worked the same shifts. and i got an interview because my exec really wanted me to get it, but the other interviewer [our HR exec, since we had no STL] felt that it was better for someone else to get it. which really hurt because it was 2 months between our specialist leaving and the new one coming in and i am the one that did all of the work for it and not a day went by when i wasn't complemented by the execs and team leads for what a wonderful job i was doing.

[anonymous]

do you guys have a softlines brand team member? thats an extra $.25 since you are such an excellent softlines tm and at our store it guarantees 40 hours.

anyways, the only advice i can give you, and you've probably already done it, is to ask the hr team for more hours. if they are rude about it or schedule you the same amount, i would cross-train in other workcenters that youwould be comfortable in just so they have no reason not to give you any hours.

if they get people to cross-train, that saves them money by not hiring someone new. each new team member they bring on costs the company $500.

whatever you do, and i'm sure you've heard this before, if you plan to leave the company, make sure you give a two weeks notice (and work it out) so that the company has no reason not to hire you in the future if you change your mind or move to another area and want to work at that Target.

[myowndecember]

we do have a brand team member, and i am her backup. yeah, thats what they told me when i wasn't getting the specialist. and i am trained in lots of workcenters and they keep telling me they'll give me hours in other places but they just don't. i just don't understand. they keep telling me what a valuable team member i am and how they'd be lost without be but they keep doing this to me. and as much as i'd just love to walk out of that place, i know to give my notice :) besides, i think they'd take it out on my fiancee if i did and thats the last thing i'd want.

[berlybug]

well, i'm running out of options for you =/. i would go to whatever executive you are closest to and make them understand what you feeling. tell them you have done everything you can to get more hours but its still not happening. let them know that you really don't want to leave but in order to get more hours, you might have to seek new employment (even if you don't plan to).

if you've already done that, i'll have to sleep on it.

let me know

[myowndecember]

we did. we went to our district HR who went to our interim STL and things are being worked out and we got a solution tonight. well, he got a solution tonight. i have to wait until he gets home to see what will happen.

[berlybug]

good deal, keep informed.

[myowndecember]

oh i shall. i'm practically dying with anticipation right now