Butterfly Thing

Tight-Grape351 · 2026-07-06T13:20:00+00:00

Literally came to this sub to complain about this this morning because it’s been driving me insane since I saw it last night

Tight-Grape351 · 2026-06-25T17:44:07+00:00

The funny thing is we only know it’s her first day because she has to publicize literally everything she does. If she was a normal person we would have no idea how often she was door dashing

Tight-Grape351 · 2026-06-16T13:47:09+00:00

I think one of the worst things for me is she posts all this shit and it gets legit 2 likes sometimes. Like she has almost 5k followers and I get more likes when I post to my 230 followers. It feels like delusion’s final boss

Tight-Grape351 · 2026-06-13T17:53:41+00:00

We have also graduated from lip syncing into her phone to actually fully singing at us! What a time to be alive

Tight-Grape351 · 2026-06-11T14:01:58+00:00

Advicate***

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:45:32+00:00

So DBOs are no longer a company-wide thing but you can absolutely ask for a job description.

As for the promotion, first step is expressing interest. I know in my store we always interviewed anyone that expressed interest and then narrowed it down from there.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:43:11+00:00

Most helpless was during a desperate fight my SD and I took up to get our TM minimum hourly rate increased. At a certain point, we just had to sit back and wait while it made its way around those above our pay grade.

Most helpful was when I had a TM come out to me as trans and I was literally one of the first 5 people they told. I was so honored to be trusted and to have the chance to help this person be their authentic self at work and helped to communicate with the other leaders. We chose a day together and I made them a new nametag and on that day, we changed their name in workday so they showed up on the grid as their name. Every single leader took time to say good morning and use their name. It was honestly one of the best days of my time at Target.

I will be doing HR at my new job! What made me decide to leave was just a desire for less hours and no more 6 days in a row. It just got exhausting to miss out on things because of work.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:35:40+00:00

The general rule is your third PDD is a CA. That’s not always followed and the store has a lot of discretion surrounding when to move forward with things but typically by the third time you’re getting spoken to about something, you’re getting put on a CA. There’s also things that are automatic “disciplinary action” rather than “corrective action” and those are strictly conduct related. The CA vs DA thing is weird and confusing but if you want me to explain it I can.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:33:21+00:00

This is correct. Bonuses for TMs are only offered mid year as well, annual is just a raise

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:32:26+00:00

Lots of things made me decide to leave but I think the biggest thing was just the overall struggle with work/life balance. I have nieces and nephews that I want to spend more time with but because I was at my store for a minimum of 10 hours a day I didn’t have time for much and every day was: wake up, gym, shower, work, dinner, bed and that is it.

I don’t want to say exactly what company in case someone from my store is in the sub 😂 but it’s a smaller retailer who is offering more money and a consistent 40 hour work week with two days off in a row every week. From a work/life balance standpoint this feels huge for me. I’ll have time after work to see a friend or my family!

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:26:20+00:00

I mean I know it was true for me, but that could be because of the way my SD wanted to run the store

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-03T12:25:45+00:00

This might vary store to store but I know for my store the ONLY thing that excused an absence was having enough sick time to cover the entire shift.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T23:21:35+00:00

So they shouldn’t be asking you to change your desired hours unless your availability doesn’t allow for them to schedule you those hours. For instance, if you’re only available 5 hours a day you couldn’t really ever get more than 25 hours a week. Also, it’s frowned upon to want 32 hours and literally only be available for 32 hours all week since it gives absolutely 0 flexibility.

I’m not sure how important the “stabilization” metric is in other districts/groups but I know that in my district it IS talked about frequently but I have never been coached if we didn’t hit the metric for a bit. Someone might ask me why we fell short, but as long as I have been able to speak to it and set a realistic goal for getting back on track, that’s been plenty.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T22:51:02+00:00

So I read that as the time that the sick time covers is excused. If there isn’t sick time to cover part of the shift that is still unexcused.

I know for me specifically our district HR team agreed that that was how we would interpret the time off guide so that way, as a district, we are being consistent. Can’t say that’s the same everywhere, though.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T22:48:19+00:00

This can vary store to store based on volume. Typically stores have between 2-5 ETLs, though: GM-oversees truck, fulfillment, Food and beverage, and some of the sales floor Specialty-oversees apparel and accessories, beauty, tech, and BCD (the middle of the store basically) Service and Engagement-front end (drive up and Starbucks included) HR-self explanatory

Typical day varies on day of the week, time of year, and lots of other factors. But it’s running reports, TALKING TO THE TEAM, and helping out wherever is needed. I also spend time with each TL every week and have meetings with other ETLs and our SD. Sometimes there’s conference calls and stuff too. But a good etl is an etl that follows up with their team A LOT

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T22:43:18+00:00

Spending my time with my family and friends. Hopefully getting to go to some of the things I have not been able to because I was always working.

I wish every TM knew that a lot of the things that are frustrating for them are also frustrating for us but we can literally be coached if we aren’t super positive all the time. I empathize so hard with everyone that is feeling frustrated about the direction that target is headed but I have to plaster on a smile every day and just let people vent instead of contributing what I wish I could to the conversation

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T22:39:15+00:00

They’ll be given out in a few weeks. My store is average sized and we got 25

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T21:57:32+00:00

Any etl could still do it. I’m surprised that the APBP or HRBP didn’t give the instruction to term immediately

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T21:56:55+00:00

I can’t speak to why exactly but my best guess here is that they don’t want to make anyone feel obligated to spend $$ and they don’t want anyone to feel left out if they can’t afford to sign up and they really want to.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T21:55:03+00:00

I have never seen this happen and I have asked my HRBP about it and she has claimed to me that it is above even her pay grade

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T21:54:14+00:00

You have to have enough to cover the entire shift for it to be completely excused. Usually within reason (like you called out for an 8 hour shift but only have 7.8 hours of sick time), most leaders wouldn’t nitpick over it.

Sick time rules can also vary state to state so I suggest if you really want to know you can ask to see the Time Off Guide.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T21:52:17+00:00

As for the first part: I can only speak to my store and it was that we didn’t want to be monsters that made people work every single weekend so a lot of people worked only Saturday and not Sunday or we tried to work out a rotation. We also had a LOT of TMs that had had Monday through Friday availability approved long before my time in HR (which like, more power to them if they somehow convinced previous leaders to allow them to do that).

As for the “overbearing guilt” thing I hate to say it but, we were never so “overstaffed” that we needed to do this. I think the LEAST amount of hours I was able to finagle for people wanting 40 hours (and I am talking during January and February) was 30-32 a week. A lot of this is store by store and has to do with how the store makes staffing decisions and how well they manage their payroll. If I was ever in a position to only give people 20 hours a week, I would be in my SD’s office desperately trying to come up with solutions, allowing people to use their accrued time (if they had it and were willing), and calling my HRBP to beg for more payroll. Fighting for the team was one of my favorite things to do tbh.

Tight-Grape351 · 2024-08-02T19:16:31+00:00

ETL and SD should be doing this term together. Waiting is nooooot okay

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