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what spotbane says is pretty clear. I find It funny too that you all insult him and defend the company so hard when he posts. itsnot even directed personally at anyone since it's a generalization. retail has a pretty bad public opinion of workers there. and I have been with target for 12 years and im pretty stupid and a slow learner and most people I have worked with just about fit spotsbanes description so I agree. I have worked in about 5 different stores for lengthy amounts of time and the majority of employees have various disabilities and are pretty bad at what they do even though its really easy work. when I unloaded a truck and stocked shelves that was the only truly hard work that took ethic and physical ability and little bit of planning and organization. now I just do starbucks, food, and cashiering and we have two people who suffer from cerebral palsy who do all that too. one employee is in their mid twenties and is legitimately retarded who won't ever mentally grow passed a childhood mentality but he his very nice and can still cashier and stock shelves, just very slowly. Its good that target gives these people employment along with myself because I would be awful at anything else like cooking or anything that takes skilled education. we have many people who do not suffer from a disability and they are still bad at their jobs and do things completely wrong even after being there for years. this isn't hard work at all and that's why retail doesn't give anyone a living to do it anymore because there are tax breaks for hiring the disabled to do it all. some of them make a lot of money too since they been there for a long time. most new people quit very soon because the are embarrassed to work in retail along side those that are disabled and can do the job as well. I like retail environment and I am not ashamed to admit I am not a smart person and that's why I am in retail. even though I don't make very many hours thanks to the cuts and everything I still live with my parents but I could probably get a full time job in a restaurant or something but I might be bad at all that and take a long time to learn it. overall I thank target too for takeing people like me in and giving us employment because I would be in the way of others in the world if I went elsewhere. if target got rid of all the special people, then where would they go? retail is the perfect environment for us because its really easy, even children could do the job if they were allowed to work there. sometimes even my store leader can be a real air head over the simplest things and she roams around the store and tries to help but we have to remind her constantly of why certain things cannot be done when she gets weird ideas. this is why a lot of management is mean to their employees because they don't know what to do or they don't want or have the ability to learn, so they get embarrassed and decide to try to dictate instead acting like they know what they are doing but they do not. my favorite saying about target from some of the longer workers are when we make fun of ourselves for being in retail and say "Our only skills are showing up on time." we laugh about it because its basically true, anyone can do this job, as long as they are trained properly and have the energy. we have about 5 mentally disabled people working in our store and sometimes they out perform the "normal" people who come in. but what is normal anyway. I like the job though because I couldn't do anything else and I havn't tried anything else.I just wanted to chime in because I always visit thebreakroom website and my coworkers had a good laugh at the list spotsbane made and was disappointed when you all removed it because we wanted to show it to other teamembers. it was really funny.if you feel like you are being treated like an idiot at work though, just remember anyone can do this job and its not hard it just takes some effort to learn it and once you do its really childs play work that anyone can do. if people are being mean to you when you are new its because they are miserable and mad at their own lives because they are in retail and they have yet to understand how to laugh at ourselves for all being in retail. we occasionally get team members who make a mistake and feel stupid and ashamed but we remind them we all work at target so we are all dummies really. its good fun. one time we had a new team member who would make fun of himself for working at target too and a guest asked him about ounces or liter conversions with the plastic tubs and he said "I don't know, I am a high school drop out" then we laughed at him and he said, "What's your excuse for not knowing?" it was hilarious because we didn't know and we all graduated high school.sorry I wrote a lot, I don't eat lunch because I am fat so I had nothing else to do
