FYI: I posted this to my town’s subreddit, but I wasn’t sure about this subreddit’s rules regarding crossposting and identifying information (it has the specific road name where the Target’s located) so I’m copying everything to here without that so my post doesn’t get taken down If identifying Target is also against the rules, I’m sorry, I just lurk here
Someone in the sub I originally posted in said that r/antiwork would love my post so I figured I’d see for myself
Idc if someone finds this and I get fired, I’m bone weary and sick of it.
I get it: I worked a more sedentary job prior to this one. However, I wanted/needed the money, so I switched to this one a little over three weeks ago. I’m also still trying to get used to retail having never worked a retail job before. I also know that understaffing is a problem everywhere. But I need to vent for a minute.
Y’all. When I say that the training is nowhere near comprehensive enough, they’re severely understaffed, I wasn’t trained for the job I’m now doing, and I’m already getting passive aggressive comments because I’m not getting several U-boats worth of stuff on shelves while doing backstock and reshop AND getting pulled into online order fulfillment? I mean it. I’m not sure if this is a normal “working at Target” experience at all, so apologies if this is par for the course or someone’s had it worse.
I was scheduled off yesterday and when I came in today, it seemed like nothing had been done while I was gone. I had three carts worth of reshop, sales audits to do, and it looked someone had literal swept their arms across one of the shelves with the level of chaos.
Forgot to mention that on my first day being assigned to my actual section, they gave me over thirty shelves to do alone and then randomly had me do two other sections in addition to my already heavy workload.
If I sound whiny, it’s because I went to the bathroom and cried for about ten minutes because I know I’m gonna have to stay over just to get half my work done today. Y’all keep me in your thoughts and prayers.