Target reviews

Although you are considered management, the general feeling can come across as an hourly associate at times. The organization is so mired in defined processes and best practices that your day-to-day activities can seem void of management level decisions but rather filled with simply task-oriented/supervisory activities to ensure productivity. Expect to change shifts every 18 months or so as well as rotate through multiple departments, depending on building needs. If schedule stability is your goal then this is not a good environment to make that a reality. 'Glass ceiling' is also a term that applies relatively well to this group leader position. In any DC there will be approximately 50-60 peers at your level and all are battling for the opportunity to advance, which seems few and far between. And should an opportunity present itself, Target will base the decision for advancement substantially on a whole new interview process identical to the one experienced when you initially joined the company. The perception is that experience/performance with the comapany is not a significant factor for advancement and promotion from within is limited. This inability to advance can be a big dis-satisfier to many group leaders and translates to high level of turn-over for this position.

If you are a student and want to work part time in a non-seasonal position, forget about it. The hours are good during winter months, but once spring and summer comes you will be lucky to get even 5-10 hours a week unless you are a manager or a full-time worker. This might only be with my position (Backroom Team Member), but I've asked other part time students working at my Target and they all have the same problem with varying degree's (cashiers and sales floor tends to get slightly more hours though). Training is horrible, at best. They tell you the bare minimum to get the job done, and feel dissatisfied with you when you don't do it at the levels they wish out of you. I also have absolutely no idea what much of the "lingo" is around the store as it's never explained to me and I was never given an orientation book. Unless you are a manager, you won't have any idea how the "system" works in the store and how things work. Most of the time the only way I can work is if I ask exactly what I am told to do because they never train on how the store itself operates, as a backroom employee. As someone who likes to take initive, this frustrates me greatly. Management frequently side-steps issues or questions you have in regards to your job, because they just don't want to deal with it at the time. Be prepared to be left in the dark with a lot of things. Due to so many people working, especailly as a backroom employee, work at Target is highly impersonal and you'll find it hard to work with people on a daily basis that you legitimatly look forward to working with. Raises are so low they might as well not exist. It's an extremely fast-paced atmosphere. You are frequently expected to seemingly impossible numbers of tasks in a short time. For example official "rule" with zoning an isle and placing things in the right place is about a minute per isle, which leaves no time to actually put things in the right place if you don't know exactly where they go, clean up the isle if there is a mess, properly position all items so they are in the front and noticable, organizing the section, and replacing missing items/price tags.