Target

I really like the team members that I work with! I like my GSTL (Guest Service Team Leader) and STL (Store Team Leader) since they are laid back and understanding if you do your job, and this is the only reason why my rating of Target receives any stars at all!

If it wasn’t for the team members that I work with, I would have left this company long ago! There is no other Target store that I would work at other than Target Store #1278 in Arnold, MO (St. Louis, MO area)!

I like the individual store that I work at! Store #1278 is known among St. Louis area Target team members as the golden Target store because of the friendly team members!

However, the Target Corporation does not give a rip about its hourly store employees, who are the backbone to the company, especially the team members at Store #1278!

Because our store generates less than 35 million dollars a year, we are looked at as an unimportant store by the executives in Target’s corporate offices!

UGH, where do I begin? Because our store generates less than 35 million dollars a year, we are looked at as an unimportant store by the executives in Target’s corporate offices. If our hardworking team-members at Store # 1278 are working their tails off to consistently generate over 30 million dollars annually, and this still does not make the Target Corporate executives happy, then this is what makes these executives downright greedy and selfish. We, the hourly store employees, fill Target’s corporate executives’ pockets a lot more than they fill ours. I pray that CEO “Gregg W. Steinhafel” and his executive team have some bad karma coming their way.

I have been working for Target for over three years. I have done everything from picking up vomit and feces off the bathroom floor, to breaking up fights between angry customers on Black Friday, to helping security apprehend thieves. In those three years, I have won Front End Top Performer of the Month three times. I won Front End Top Performer of the Month most recently in June 2013, and I am only getting paid 80 cents more than when I started three years ago (not even $1 an hour more). Luckily, I start working at Costco in less than two weeks. Rumor has it that at Costco the lowest-paid employee makes $11/HR plus possible bonuses.

Why waste time giving Senior Management advice when they won’t listen?

How about if the company or individual store does well in terms of generating the projected daily sales goal, the team members get a bonus.

For example, if your store reaches the projected daily sales goal of $150,000.00, every team member should get compensated with “Shift Differential” pay (Target term for an extra $1 per hour) added to their paycheck for that day.

This is not a lot to ask for!

I think that if the company does well, the team members should do well with the company (within reason, of course).

(It’s hard to believe, but just one Target store can generate six-figure sales revenue on a busy Saturday, and it’s even more during the holidays!)

If Costco, which is a much smaller company than Target, can compensate its team members with small bonuses, then there is no reason why Target can’t afford to as well.

Oh, and stop finding BS reasons to cut employee payroll hours for our store!

How can you expect to get more done with less payroll hours?

We already lack team member manpower as is!