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Hello, good readers!
I started writing down my experiences at Target, because there are some really, really funny moments, (funny meaning sad, pathetic, and shameful), but after 6 pages, I decided to spare you all of the tedium. I am too old for this treatment, but not for the job. For months now we have done away with huddles, (circle-jerks) but now they've re-instituted them, and I chuckle as I count the faces there and add $3.24 per face, then remember they supposedly can't afford to give me the hours I need to get the work done. I'm expected to stay longer than my scheduled shift, yet never get even close to paying the bills, since my over-night bonus was stripped away and my hours are slashed, but I still have to be in that place 5 days a week. I had to get another job a year and a half ago, because of the corporate policy that they should screw us slowly, in phases, for fear of a mass exodus of employees, and that's mainly because managment lied to me for 7 months, saying over and over "We'll be adjusting the hours when we get more used to the new system." My store is basically where high-school dropouts are sent when their parents get tired of them playing video games and watching T.V. all day, and there's NO training. As a result, their asinine 'Own Your Area' policy (if I own it, I'LL be responsible for ALL the details-i.e. who does what, when, ordering, cleaning, etc.) means I see my area destroyed twice a week by people too lazy, untrained, or dumb to know what backstock means. Why am I still there? Well, not for long hopefully, but basically, I'm stubborn. It doesn't have to be this way. I see the waste, the laziness, the lack of forethought, and I can't help but be driven crazy I work in 'logistics' but no-one knows how, exactly, to wipe their own butt. I've said it before, but this franchise has never recovered from the almost one billion dollar joke that was Target Canada, and we're all suffering from this terrible company's mismanagement.
I started writing down my experiences at Target, because there are some really, really funny moments, (funny meaning sad, pathetic, and shameful), but after 6 pages, I decided to spare you all of the tedium. I am too old for this treatment, but not for the job. For months now we have done away with huddles, (circle-jerks) but now they've re-instituted them, and I chuckle as I count the faces there and add $3.24 per face, then remember they supposedly can't afford to give me the hours I need to get the work done. I'm expected to stay longer than my scheduled shift, yet never get even close to paying the bills, since my over-night bonus was stripped away and my hours are slashed, but I still have to be in that place 5 days a week. I had to get another job a year and a half ago, because of the corporate policy that they should screw us slowly, in phases, for fear of a mass exodus of employees, and that's mainly because managment lied to me for 7 months, saying over and over "We'll be adjusting the hours when we get more used to the new system." My store is basically where high-school dropouts are sent when their parents get tired of them playing video games and watching T.V. all day, and there's NO training. As a result, their asinine 'Own Your Area' policy (if I own it, I'LL be responsible for ALL the details-i.e. who does what, when, ordering, cleaning, etc.) means I see my area destroyed twice a week by people too lazy, untrained, or dumb to know what backstock means. Why am I still there? Well, not for long hopefully, but basically, I'm stubborn. It doesn't have to be this way. I see the waste, the laziness, the lack of forethought, and I can't help but be driven crazy I work in 'logistics' but no-one knows how, exactly, to wipe their own butt. I've said it before, but this franchise has never recovered from the almost one billion dollar joke that was Target Canada, and we're all suffering from this terrible company's mismanagement.
