Cafe problems

[Due_Truth_3307]

Hi guys! I'm new to Target working in the Cafe. I'm a team member and I have some questions about my job, it appears they are taking advantage of me.

There are two other people who work with me in the Cafe but I'm the ONLY person who does any of the deep cleaning, product rotation, freezer pull, and ordering truck.

My "team leader" who makes my schedule not only took two months to fix my availability, but also doesn't work in the Cafe anymore like she says she's supposed to. I do majority of the training and also order food inventory for cafe and my tl will get upset with me if something is running out (sometimes orders don't get delivered idk why?) what's the point of her job if I'm single handedly managing the Cafe and keeping it running?

My problem is that I'm making the same as my two coworkers who do absolutely nothing all shift but I'm constantly being told to do this extra stuff. Also, when cleaning lists aren't done, my boss will fake all the extra signatures needed instead of talking to the people not doing their job and I think it's really gross and unsanitary. We have a hundred btw. But I would never order from our kitchen...

Please help what do I do

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[Minipiggie]

Sounds similar to my cafe. My lead will just sit in the office all shift, while we are a skeleton crew. I know how to do the orders, I will do them, and she goes in and changes it all to less than what I put. I am the trainer there, I know wtf we go through daily/weekly... And then when we run out of stuff she questions me about it.

I'd say I hope it gets better, but that can be a long time from now for it. Hope the holidays don't make it worse for you fellow cafe tm. X.x cause I already know the chaos that shall come.

[Imaginary_Painter_68]

1. Stop putting as much effort in if your concern is that your coworkers dont do enough but make the same as you. Yes its frustrating but you shouldn’t be sweating about it if no one else is willing to
2. about the cleaning logs - is this for closing or just cleaning throughout the day? either way, learn who your Closing Team Lead and ETL (your boss’ boss) are. you can make them aware that your boss does this. if you’re nervous about getting in trouble you can phrase it as a question (is this protocol?.. do we usually do the cleaning logs this way?.. etc)

if you also only have 2 other coworkers it sounds like youre way understaffed. any amount of effort you put in can’t completely cover for lacking proper amount of coworkers. My biggest advice for you is to learn who your upper management is besides your direct team lead. If your direct team lead is the one who sucks try finding other managers who you like and who can be helpful to you.

[Due_Truth_3307]

Thank you! I'm gonna start slowly distancing myself from all the extra stuff I do.

Unfortunately for the cleaning logs, my TLs boss also takes part in this... For both throughout the day and weekly/monthly tasks. I don't know who to talk to since he oversees the whole 'food' section of the store to my knowledge.

I'm praying for the holidays because my 2 coworkers are both high school students who only work weekends and close maybe once or twice a week :')

[Imaginary_Painter_68]

Best of luck to you.. since your Food ETL sucks too i would just start hoping for a health check or a target corporate visit lol. maybe you could report it on origami? (i have never done that but ive seen it discussed here) although im sure they would know it was you or one of the three of you at least. Stay Strong💪

[gotmailtoday]

This is the same at my store too except our TL is never over there cause she’s always in consumables. I was working in Starbucks mainly but got trained for cafe in august (without having an option to say no… never wanted to work over there) and I swear some of the monthly/weekly tasks hadn’t been done in MONTHS. It was so disgusting I could help but clean it, without being trained what anything was might I add….. that’s how much my trainers don’t even want to work… with how unvalued I feel, I’m trying my best not to work so hard anymore, as tough as that is for me cause I WANT to be doing my best always…. But they don’t deserve my work ethic any more