No employee has any guarantee of hours or employment at Target. When I left, every employee was only given less than 10 hours a week even as the store sales exceeded plan and we were promised more; most people were forced to apply for partial unemployment. If you ever work for Target, expect to have very very few hours from January until at least May every year. There were also several people who were fired in the most unethical ways I've ever seen. You can be fired at any time for any reason, and now that the economy is bad, they value employees even less.
The money that the store allotted to provide occasional events with food for us was never once used for the employees. They also would not even provide water for us even after multiple meetings about these issues.
After being promised certain days off for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we were all scheduled for those days anyway. We all worked on Thanksgiving- we weren't even given any food and were forced to stay hours longer than promised. People were even scheduled on Christmas day. I suppose the bottom line is that managers will say anything to appease the employees- but after years of working there, not a single manager ever followed through on any promise. I really tried to make important issues known to the managers, but even if you're obviously right and clearly intelligent, your voice will never be heard.
After being hired I was told that the store was being shut down for remodeling and we would all be moved to different stores. I wasn't happy but I was prepared. Unfortunately the other stores in the area refused to take the employees from our store and over the course of almost a year we were all shuffled around, losing an extremely large percentage of our hours. We were promised by the GM that we would be reimbursed for gas because of the different stores that were inconvenient for all of us, but even after many follow ups trying to be paid, no one ever was. Also be careful about "punch corrections;" there was about a weeks worth of work that I will never be paid for because someone in an office somewhere didn't do the paperwork and future HR managers didn't believe that I wasn't paid. If you do a punch correction, there is no evidence that you worked at all and you can easily be taken advantage of.
If you ever work for them, be prepared for hassles, disappointment, and the lowest quality treatment they can possibly get away with. The charitable veneer of Target is sadly such a sham. It really explains why so many people have customer service complaints.
They definitely do not value your opinion at all unless you're a manager. Target even cut many people's pay, including mine, in a very shady way. What ever they do- you can't fight it. If you find out that they treat you badly, find a new job right away; it won't get better.

I had a target credit card for about a year and a half. In addition to that card, I did have others and I wanted to consolidate. Well I got in touch with an agency that basically receives a flat payment every month and then they pay the creditors direct. Well I signed up. At that point my target card was not added to the program. A few months later I added it. Well about 2 years later I decided to trade in my vehicle for a new one. They had showed that I had one problem w/my credit report. The target card. They showed that I had been late for 14 months straight at 30 days each time. Well the process that the consolidation agency follows is that they prepare a proposal and submit it to the creditor for approval of the set amount of payment and terms. Well they did agree. But the 'policy' that target followed was that if the account was added when it was past due then they continued to report to the credit bureau that it was late instead of reporting the account in collection or credit agency like all my others accounts did. I called and spoke to a rep. and they said that if I had paid my account in full they would correct the reporting and put it as if nothing ever happened. Well I did pay it off and I still can't make a purchase. Do not sign up for a Target credit card!!!

About week ago, I was shopping with kid at this plaza and decided to stop at Target to check out some tupperware for the kitchen. First I encountered this greeter who demanded to that I my must leave my shopping bags with her/ her I couldnt tell the way she/he was dressed.

Anyways being an educated nurse with a masters degrees I expect the utmost professionalism!!! This employee was talking to a friend on his cellphone when I asked him where I could find kitchen appliances and such, and it took her several minutes to end the conversation and she was very rude. So I asked to speak to the manager and undoubtably doesnt make nearly as much my 90k plus benefits salary. He wasn't very helpful and his grammar skill sounded she just finished the fifth grade.

Anyways I decided to leave the store when I was accousted by the security guard to be searched. I had some double A batteries in my pocket I had purchased from a nearby Radio Shack. He demanded I show a receipt which I threw away, so i held against my will for at least 30 minutes while someone went to Radio to very my purchase and even then they sounded reluctant to admit I bought it there. Finally I was able to leave with the bags i hade to leeve behind intially.

I will never ever ever in a million years shop at target again. How dare they treat a person of my calibur.

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There is this employee at Target in San Dimas CA who is such a jerk to me everytime I come in, not to mention a jerk to my mother. He is one of those controlling, abusive types who once dated my friend. The store manager there loves him deeply, though, so regardless to the fact that he has called me & my mother a bitch to our faces while shopping there, completely ignoring him, he still got promoted. It's ridiculous! He would be angry at my friend & take it out on us when he saw us. My mom works with him, so I feel I can't do anything, given the manager likes him so much. Almost everytime I walk in, though, this guy walks towards me as if to challenge me & occasionally bruches his arm against me. I can't believe it! He is husky & over 6 ft tall. I'm a quiet 5 ft 4 in woman and my mother is in her 50's yet gets treated this way by this man. It's so disappointing that the manager has done nothing. Supposedly, nothing can be proven. If he took the time to question fellow employees, though, he would hear numerous complaints. It's terrible that just because he if friendly with the manager he gets to push his way around! He's a huge sexual harasser too! I just wish they cared enough about there female employees at this store to do something about it. I smell a law suit as soon as he crosses the path of a woman who has nothing to risk & stands up for herself even after this stores management does nothing.

I used to love my local Target until they installed new registers. The screens on the registers can be read by those at end of the line. So if there is a long line and I can't see that "'wart remover" is being scanned I can definitely read all about it. In this day and age of supposed privacy- I don't need everyone in line to know what I am purchasing. I guess they are trying to make me shop elsewhere or on-line.