I love my job at Target......

I have seen some really good deals that I have marked down. There was once I went back because I saw some shoes that I marked down and they were marked at a good price so I got a good deal. The regular price was for 40 dollars and was then marked down to 10 dollars and they were some really nice shoes. I've been receiving compliments left and right every time I wear them and people are like were did you buy those shoes and I tell them target. Well now if they go and look for those shoes though, they won't find them, lol, because we already took them down and to the back. When stuff isn't selling another thing I like about target is that they will donate them to charity. So now that is were the shoes have gone. People were too late.

Things that go on clearance we tag them with clearance tickets. That's where the tedious part is. And when we're marking clearance items on clothes the more tedious part about it is that we have to scan them by size. So if one is a small, we print out a ticket for a small and then if there is another one that is a large then we have to scan again and print out a ticket for large. Yeah I'm confident he'll help me with picking up speed. He's the fastest they got. And he's like he'd eventually like for me to be as fast as he is. And I think that would be great. Cause he can get through departments in like an hour to an hour and a half. With me and other team members we get through it in like 2 to 3 hours. Sometimes we can't finish and I hate that and plus the manager over him is like me and this other girl I started with we got to finish our work on time otherwise they are going to have to let us go. We're like on a 90 day probationary period. But today I just found out they are wanting to make it 60 days. Its already been 30 days. So I want to really work on my speed so I don't get let go. But the team lead is saying we're doing good so I don't know why we aren't finishing on time. He can most likely look into that and help us out I know he doesn't want to lose us either, cause before we came along he used to do the whole thing by himself and sometimes there were day we have like 5000 items and it have to be done that day. I don't see how he did it. But hey obviously he made it happen cause now he's team lead. So I hope to make it up to his speed.

He was able to scan 5,000 items a day? And print out a ticket for them too? Doesn't that sound impossible? I don't see how he did that either all by himself. I hope they don't pressure you too much because that's when the stress starts cropping up. Today, jobs are not like they used to be, and they expect you to do the work of 3 people. I wish they would back off some and just be happy with good workers who work at a normal pace.

Sorry, duh to me, I meant to say "Does that sound possible?"..., not impossible. I think I was going to say "that's impossible" but messed up the whole darn sentence. My mind works faster than my fingers.

I remember hiding stuff at Wal Mart me and my co-workers would do it all the time. And never got caught. We'd just hide it in one of the fitting rooms for the day and pay for it when we got off. We couldn't hold it till pay day unfortunately, I think then we would have been caught. This is something I wish I could do at target, but then I guess it would kind of be unfair because I'd get to the clearance before other customers and associates and plus I have no were to hide it except in my cart lol.

I hardly ever shopped at target before until I started working there and then I did more shopping then. The people there do seem to be friendly and a lot of people at least at my store seem knowledgeable. And if they didn't know the answer then they would find someone who had the answer to your question. Hopefully when the target that opens up in your area you get the same type of workers there as well.

That sounds like you had a really good job. It is also nice to work with people that you can get along with and they were like family. It was like that with me at wal mart. I didn't like the job so much but I did enjoy the people that I worked with because we were all like family. I miss them alot but now I'm glad to be working a job that I can enjoy.

You are right as long as you have fun doing your job then you will enjoy going there every day. And each day I go I feel like I'm having fun. That's weird for me cause I never liked a job this much before. I know that I will be trying my hardest and improve on doing better. I am going to stick on being positive and say that I will be there for a long time and move up.

That is the best attitude to make yourself become a better person not because of the job but will also help you as a whole.

Yeah I like being able to move around like that. And plus while I am working I get to learn my store and find out where everything is in which return I can help customers better when they come to me with questions about certain products. I am actually too a back up cashier and I'm just grateful its back up cause I couldn't stand just being at the register all day. When I used to work at Wal Mart, I was an operator, and basically all day I was stuck at the fitting room, answering phones and letting people try on clothes. I didn't like it so much because I could hardly leave from my station.

As long as your trying at your job you can be successful too. That, is what I'm doing and I've never tried so hard at a job before just to keep it. But I've never worked a job either that I liked so much. My job too is something I have never done before either and its so new and different to me. The only thing is that it is retail and I'm already used to that. But hopefully I can be successful in my job as well and be there for a good while.

You are so right and that is what I will have to do just keep on trying my best and hope for the best. And you are so right about learning as I go, and I think I am learning more and hopefully I get better. I think that is what they are doing is at least giving us time to learn what is a better way at doing our work and then picking up the speed.

Actually I too was shocked that there was such a job. Being from where I used to work at. Walmart, they never had a team like that were people just went around the store checking on prices of items and changing the prices. Normally people that worked in that certain department did all that work. But I like how this whole thing is set up and I guess it is more organized that way in my opinion. It puts less work for the people who are assigned to certain departments. This is something that I wished that Wal Mart had in their store.

Yeah, actually my team lead is starting to leave me with some tips on what I can do to improve my speed and what I can do to finish the work before leaving for the day. I will take his tips to heart and I know that I can just try my best and maybe that is all they ask for. There is only one other co-worker on our team who has been there longer then us besides the team lead. I've been trying to watch him and the team lead both to see what they do and then follow their suit. Hopefully, I can catch on and get faster.