CabbageKnight
Grocery Specialist. Former Backroom Team Member.
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2015
- Messages
- 49
I never really posted here, I commented a few times sporadically but I actually started browsing The Break Room before I got my job at Target and made my account a few months later.
Five and a half years, Two Stores on different ends of the continent, One fifteen minutes away from Corporate and one that Corporate likely forgot even existed. I started as Backroom and helped pilot Modernization in the second Store before transferring back to my first one due to personal issues (Don't move across the Country for a relationship!) reverting back to Backroom only to help rollout modernization not long afterwards. My journey at Target was bumpy at best but I wouldn't trade it for anything, Its been a genuine pleasure to meet and talk to so many amazing people, Learn with them, complain with them about ETL's and Corporate, And laugh with them. I've been there with my Coworkers as they've celebrated a Promotion or a new job, And I've been there as they've had a panic attack from finding out they're about to be a Father.
Target, The company, Means almost nothing to me. Target, The people, Means more to me then I'll ever be able to put into words. I miss my Coworkers, My friends. More then I've ever missed something before. But after five and a half years it wasn't the only two weekends off a year, It wasn't the being put on the Bench only to be blocked by an ETL who I reported, It wasn't that same ETL being friends with the ETL HR and taking parts from one of my close friends personal conversations with HR regarding his own family issues and his stress's at work that his ETL weren't assisting on to figure out ways to give him enough panic attacks he quit for his own sanity as he felt he was going to need to be medicated.
It was going into work and realizing as much as I love the people, I hated having to smile at those ETL's and pretend I was alright with them continuing to do that, To continue to force out people they dislike, To force transfers of Team Members making cap to other stores, To threaten TL's with being fired so they'd accept a demotion and a transfer out of District. So I quit. I put in three weeks, The 23rd of February was my last day and I've just enjoyed my first weekend off since August. I'm taking some time to myself and I'm going to travel a bit and get into College. This all sort of ended up as a ramble but I don't, Really know how else to express it all. Its fairly identifying if you know me and my icon and name remain the same across almost all Social Media, So if you recognize me, Hello! If not and you read through all of this.
Goodbye Target, I hope you live in interesting times. Don't call.
And as for the Team Members, The one's I know and the one's I don't. Its been a pleasure and I wish you safe travels, Feel free to call if you need anything.
Five and a half years, Two Stores on different ends of the continent, One fifteen minutes away from Corporate and one that Corporate likely forgot even existed. I started as Backroom and helped pilot Modernization in the second Store before transferring back to my first one due to personal issues (Don't move across the Country for a relationship!) reverting back to Backroom only to help rollout modernization not long afterwards. My journey at Target was bumpy at best but I wouldn't trade it for anything, Its been a genuine pleasure to meet and talk to so many amazing people, Learn with them, complain with them about ETL's and Corporate, And laugh with them. I've been there with my Coworkers as they've celebrated a Promotion or a new job, And I've been there as they've had a panic attack from finding out they're about to be a Father.
Target, The company, Means almost nothing to me. Target, The people, Means more to me then I'll ever be able to put into words. I miss my Coworkers, My friends. More then I've ever missed something before. But after five and a half years it wasn't the only two weekends off a year, It wasn't the being put on the Bench only to be blocked by an ETL who I reported, It wasn't that same ETL being friends with the ETL HR and taking parts from one of my close friends personal conversations with HR regarding his own family issues and his stress's at work that his ETL weren't assisting on to figure out ways to give him enough panic attacks he quit for his own sanity as he felt he was going to need to be medicated.
It was going into work and realizing as much as I love the people, I hated having to smile at those ETL's and pretend I was alright with them continuing to do that, To continue to force out people they dislike, To force transfers of Team Members making cap to other stores, To threaten TL's with being fired so they'd accept a demotion and a transfer out of District. So I quit. I put in three weeks, The 23rd of February was my last day and I've just enjoyed my first weekend off since August. I'm taking some time to myself and I'm going to travel a bit and get into College. This all sort of ended up as a ramble but I don't, Really know how else to express it all. Its fairly identifying if you know me and my icon and name remain the same across almost all Social Media, So if you recognize me, Hello! If not and you read through all of this.
Goodbye Target, I hope you live in interesting times. Don't call.
And as for the Team Members, The one's I know and the one's I don't. Its been a pleasure and I wish you safe travels, Feel free to call if you need anything.
