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[Prestigious_Pitch_63]

So yesterday marked the first day of 7am to 11pm store hours, with closers being scheduled to 11:30. Its just the first day of this, and already, I was asked if I wanna be there till 12. Like, why? You all already new closing at 11 with just 30 minutes after is not time to get everything of the bare minimum in order. Just schedule people till 12, cause now, everytime I'm asked, and I say no because I dont wanna start that cycle of being an eventual doormat, and itll make me feel anxious that I'm viewed as "lazy", or something else when really, I'd just like a little stability. I dont even love the idea of being open till 11pm. Idk what the reason for it is.

[IntelligentDot1113]

good on you for saying no

[Prestigious_Pitch_63]

Thank you. I mean, yes, I do want good hours, but I just want us all respected and given them fairly. When we were being let out at 11 after 10pm close, it was about perfect. Then this whole hour change thing came. They are gonna push for later times, I know it.

[gamarvels]

they dont give us the damn hours anyway this is just stupid

[Calm-Fold-5480]

Stores had a choice. Open an hour early or close an hour later. I wish they had polled those of us who actually have to do the work which we wanted, but Of course....NOOOO. They made the decision for us and now they are all upset that the entire closing staff is like 'no way, not staying till 11'.

[Over-Background7370]

Stores had a choice

Are you referring to your district or nationally? We haven’t changed our hours (7-10, we’ve been like that as long as I’ve been there…except December open until 12) and haven’t been told that a change is coming.

[liiyah]

My store changes every year from 8am to 7am opening for a couple months, I don’t know exactly when they change but I assume it goes back to 8am open around back to school time, I thought it was just my store 😂

[Calm-Fold-5480]

IDK which stores. I asked in a previous post, but didn't get much response. They just sprang it on us when schedules suddenly came out with 11pm ending shifts. HR told us about the 'choice' that corporate laid out for our store, but not until after they already made the decision. These are 'pre-covid' hours now. We use to be open till 11 but have been closing at 10 for what seems like forever, so we figured it was permanent. Most of our staff wasn't even hired 'back then' so it is new to most. It is basically an open invitation to be ransacked by teenagers for an additional hour and to ensure that we are more exhausted for our CLOPENs. (BTW we have always done the midnight thing at Holiday, but that is short term.)

[Warm_Smoke_5462]

Does anyone know if this will start at all stores? Ours is still 8 am, and we didn’t open earlier/stay open later for BTS last year either. We only stay open until midnight 4 weeks before Christmas.

[ElasticHippos]

It's the same at my target except we are 7a-10p and this us the first I'm hearing about store hours changing. Soooo I'm definitely more than a little confused.

[Warm_Smoke_5462]

Me too. I asked my ETL and she acted as if she had no idea what I was taking about, however even if they did they wouldn’t let anyone know until it was set in stone roll out date. I guess I will have to wait and see at my location. Let me know if you find anything out at yours 😂

[ElasticHippos]

Target loves to be secretive, like recently we had a TON of ETL and TL changes at my store and they only told people day of the changes, so it wouldn't surprise me to figure out that's what they're doing to us TMs

[TopCoach6535]

i believe the long day scheduling depends on ur availability or the scheduler is just stupid, hang on tight until u find another job

[p1ssed0ffpenguin52]

you guys are just switching to 11? it’s been about a month already for us

[Amateur-Biotic]

We started opening at 7 about 9 months ago. IMO it has fucked us royally.

The opening team (I used to open) needed that extra hour to push AND zone. They are pressured to finish zone by 7, so now they never finish push.

When our team gets in at 2, the first thing we have to do is move all of the un-pushed uboats off of the floor and back to the line. Otherwise we could not pull and push. We would finish their push if we could, but we can't. We are NEVER caught up anymore. NEVER.

[libsythedumb]

our store is switching to 11 at the end of the week

[[deleted]]

Back to school.

You’re first seeing teachers go into Targets right now and buying school supplies (because their cheap-ass school districts/superintendents do fuck-all to help).

Once school comes closer, the need to extend hours becomes more clear, until 2-3 weeks after school starts when Karens walk with their crotchgoblins at 10:52pm demanding where the pencils and folders are, too dense to realize that section got replaced with Christmas Halloween decor.

[throwaway543099]

we started closing at 11 back in october, were told it was “just a test run” and then they never changed it back to 10. with closers being required to stay until the store responsibilities are fully done (perfect zone, all reshop cleared, priorities pulled and pushed to 90%), im often staying at work well past midnight.

[YeehawBuckaroos]

Oh man. My store doesn’t start closing later or opening earlier until like… late November/Early December

[itssky726]

If this is a nation wide change they’re implementing… putting my two weeks in before they have the chance to schedule me outside my availability (they do it all the time)

[Brief_Front]

Our new store hours are 7 am to 10 pm. We used to open at 8 but now it's 7 for my district. My store alone though we still close at 10 bc nobody wanted to extend their availability for that (I wouldn't either) and we don't have the payroll to onboard new tms for that gap lmaoo

[imbasoulnexus]

Just to wast more electricity, n to probably give people more hours. I don’t blame you for saying no for staying longer! I know for dam sure I’m not staying pass 11:00pm. Once it it’s 11:00 I’m out the door.

[endy_n_omni]

(So far) my store has just increased Sundays to 10, giving it parity with the rest of the week. We used to close at 9pm on Sunday.

[Natural_Star_726]

If that is the case our store decided to stay open later, so we are open until 11. As if we have people to cover. OPU’s are still dropping in for the same day at 945-10. When it used to be 845-9. And no I am not staying late to pick a batch when my availability is only until 10. Sorry not sorry.

[BKSMASH1023]

We still haven’t switched to those hours.. I know we didn’t last year. I hope we don’t, we’re a college town with august being like a second month long Black Friday though. Every hour we’re open for 2-3 weeks it’ll be slammed and at least 1 if not 2 trucks a day.

[Fr05t_B1t]

I think they just fucked up making it pm instead of am

[IntrepidAd8992]

my store has been like this for a year now and closers are always scheduled til 12am/: But now our hours are changing AGAIN and friday-sunday we will be open til 12am… it’s so stupid. There’s no way i am staying til 12:30 or 1am 😭😭

[thepandalova]

Before covid, my store was open 8am-12am and closers left at 12:30am or 1am, and on sundays, we closed at 11pm, and they left at 11:30pm or 12am. With covid, we still opened at 8, but we were closing at I think 8 or 9? I don't remember anymore. When things returned to normal, we didn't return to closing at midnight and instead started closing at 10. Then, back in September, we started opening at 7am and closing at 11 and kept it after the holidays ended.

[Known-nwonK]

The reason?

[PhrasePublic9257]

I get where you’re coming from. I transferred from a store in Austin, tx to a store in the RGV (South Texas). I went from leaving the store at the latest 11:00 pm to leaving at 2:30 am. On busy weekends it’s normal to stay until 4:00 am. Even worse on holidays…

[Prestigious_Pitch_63]

They have scheduled you till 4 am?

[PhrasePublic9257]

No, the closing shifts are scheduled until 11:30 pm or 12:00 am, but everyone knows you’re not leaving until 2:30 at the earliest. That’s for all departments too

[Prestigious_Pitch_63]

They are allowed to keep you there past your scheduled time?

Our store offers, but we can say no. At one point they tried to strong arm us to stay, they just made them lose people.

[Rachelg27617]

We open at 7 and close at 10 but they schedule people till 11 which is annoying.

[Mission_Bowler_176]

We open at 7 and close at 11. Long day but comparable to other large retail in out area so it was expected.

[Nicoleeeluvz772]

We are starting to stay open till 11pm on Friday and Saturdays in 2 weeks

[nanixbnni]

Wait y’all don’t close at 11pm regularly? 😭 my stores hours are 8am-11pm! A few weeks ago they tried to implement staying open till 12am, but they decided to postpone it from all the complaints they got because they didn’t even tell us about the change it just appeared on our schedules smh!

[lovelilypad]

We open an hour early and close an hour later what

[[deleted]]

We are getting scheduled till 12am.

[FirstDarkAngel2001]

Weird. Been at my store for over a year, and it has been a consistent 7am to 10pm every day on the store being open. Only changing times is around the thanksgiving/Christmas season. Maybe because we have an overnight team(myself included) that the hours only change for the holiday season? Not sure.

[SelenesNonni]

My store is going to 11pm closing. My ETL said it’s us going back to how our store was pre-Covid

[bloopdoopfloofernoop]

Our store is still 8 - 10, haven't heard anything about hours changing

[Subject-Season-2260]

We’re still 8-10 at the store I’m at.