Target

These may not be pros to some, but others will like it.

• Hire anyone with a bachelor's for supervisory level, in spite of skills and lack of experience.
• Hires college graduates with good pay and no experience, and puts them in charge of good people, giving them the power to terminate for any reason.
• Distribution center pays well.
• Gives extra perks (discounts with Dell, Tmobile, At&t, movie theaters, etc.).
• Target discount.
• 401k & pension.
• 3-year top-out on pay.

Hires inexperienced staff in supervisory roles who fire for no reason or write people up just to cut costs of long-term employees with high pay. Forces supervisors to find reasons to fire good staff. Terminates with no reason and makes up stupid reasons to justify it. Would rather waste thousands of dollars to transfer people in from other DCs to complete work assignments because they have fired everyone. Corruption. Favoritism. Rules apply to some very inconsistently. No room for change or ideas. Cannot move up in this company, and if you try to transfer, they will fire you or write you up, preventing this in the specific DC I worked for. They then mess up your transfers if you happen to get through and nearly get you fired. "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude with management. GLs can destroy property and be told by corporate to fix it, but you will be fired for "vandalism" if you put a label on a forklift that someone else misprinted, yet others are allowed to paint lines and designs on them with no penalties. If fired, they will tell prospective employers what they fired you for without explanation and even add things in they have no evidence or proof you did. 99% of the time, the person didn't do it to begin with. It is made up. Not able to retire with this company. Employee appeal process for terminations is fixed and very biased. Told to violate rules and OSHA regulations in order to get the numbers met to make the GL look good. If injured, they say you are fired and you were "unaware of surroundings." Will ruin someone's life over personal issues or just a GL having a bad day. Expensive health care benefits at this time, with poor coverage and high deductibles. Most medications are not covered. For instance, you pay $80/week for a family, have a $6,000 deductible that must be broken up by three different people, will not cover autism, and most medications, you may save only $5 opposed to full-priced. Dental is not good either. You have to pay full price to go to the doctor's office (for instance, $150 for a new visit, and you must pay the whole thing). Extra charges for smokers but not for obese. Will not cover any weight loss assistance either. If you have a handicapped family member, they will use that against you on time off/FMLA. GLs don't have any compassion or any conscious, or they would not do some of the things they do there. Oh, and so much more. Just tired of typing.

Do not fire and force people out. If you don't like the pay, then lower your pay scale if you can't afford it, apparently for the hard-working family person. The CEO is making millions a year while the family person is making 50k-75k or so in the DC. Yet that is too much, and that person is fired for stupid reasons to cut costs – seen it a bunch of times. Stop being greedy! Follow OSHA regulations. All rules should apply to all! Get a better healthcare plan. Allow employee appeals to be fair. If allegations are made that caused the employee to be terminated, then they must be proven if used against him/her. You should never lie about employees; you have already ruined their lives by firing them when they try to move on. You should have concrete evidence before making up lies and claiming they did something they didn't, and you have no evidence they did. Treat employees like they matter at least a little bit.