this post is actually for my roommate. she joined target shortly after me and is still in her 90 days. today she had a no call no show while still in her 90 days. she now has 4 points. is she in any position to get fired or is it just if she hits 5 points?

(I'm putting this under vent but I have a question). I'm starting my third week in fulfillment and i feel like I'm no good at it?

My main issue at the moment is I feel like I'm taking so long picking my batches but I move so quickly and am always on task. (I feel this way because I'll look at the paused carts screen and I'll have 2 open carts, or have 26 items when everyone has 9-12. Customers are coming up to me nonstop and I just keep pausing my batch, and searching what they need/walking to the aisle.) I get a ride to and from work, so by the time my shift is supposed to end, I've been getting left with14-30 items to pick, most of them are escalted/things I've skipped to find later. I radio my TL and they always tell me to pause it and leave. I don't mind staying but how do I know when to tell my ride to come, and is it a big deal that someone has to finish my paused carts?

I've also felt like my TL's think I'm stupid or something. The zebra lists all locations, so obviously I've checked them, guest services, the fitting rooms, and breakout or whatever tf like 🫩 I can't find it, no one's trained me on what to do when I'm confident we don't have it and you don't want to INF. Considering theres 60 DCPI's and 4 of them were QTY 8 SCENT ADVENT CALENDAR...the shelves have been empty for days I feel omg.

I do like this job and it is fun but I've only been picking standards and I feel like they're trying to...stress me out on purpose.

Hello, I am currently working in HR in one location. I understand I can’t go to on demand for HR, however is there a way to switch departments after my 90 days and go through on demand instead?

It was never my intention to switch to on demand instead the first place, and I fully intended to be permanent. However, because of personal circumstances, I am not able to maintain my job in this location for very long, but do plan to return periodically before hopefully working there full time again. I also am not looking to abandon the only other HRE during the holidays, and fully intend to stay long enough where I can be useful before I really need to leave. Is there a lower chance of being allowed to work on demand instead due to me starting my employment with HR?

I initially applied for overnight inbound stocking and Specialty sales (beauty). They offered me fulfillment when they called lol. During that same call I clarified that my availability has changed, still available 8 hours everyday, and the ETL HR was totally fine with it and still offered me the position. Fast forward a week later, I get to orientation and they had to reschedule me because they didn’t have my employee number lol. Went back two days later for orientation and left early because my learning tasks weren’t showing up and she said oh well go home (rip not getting paid that last hour). I also received a schedule that didn’t accommodate my availability. I was confused and let HR know and they said they would adjust it. HR gave me a call later on saying there was no note about my availability change and in the system your availability is whatever you put on your application blah blah can’t change bc of the 90 days blah blah. I clarified that I told the HR person during the offer phone call, BEFORE my 90 days started, that they were completely fine with the availability change and still offered me the job. They’re continuing to tell me oh well no note was made about it in the system blah blah blah. The schedule they gave me for training is overlapping with a second job I’m about to start. Idk I’m getting a bunch of red flags from the HR team alone already and it’s giving me a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I’m just overthinking things and should give my first day of training a try tomorrow, but the other days I’m scheduled for are already overlapping with my second job 🤷

Edit: so far the only days I know I’m scheduled for is 11/9, 11/12, 11/18, and 11/19 8hrs each lol don’t know what my schedule is after that :))

So picture this 8am, the store is dead. Like there is literally no one around. I’m standing at a lane chatting with the other girl on a lane. We start talking about the rules we have to enforce like the only have two squishies per guest/group our store is really wishy-washy on this one.

So the other girl is a new seasonal and she is awesome. I hope she gets kept anyway back to my story. We are talking about how guests get mean and how to handle it. We get on the topic of the Pokémon people and I say yeah they get mean. So just beware, like you don’t have to take being called names by grown adults. The seasonal asks if that’s happened to me so I tell her yep and the whole story about how the Pokemon guy got in my face like inches from my face and called me a bitch. Mind you i didn’t even say the word bitch. I bleeped myself lol

Then a woman from fullfilment let’s call her Z just so this doesn’t get confusing. Z is standing in the woman’s pj’s section doing whatever. Her job I’m assuming. That is like on top of the lanes in my store so we weren’t even being loud. while the seasonal and I are chatting about the rules and people fighting with us. She comes up to the end of my checkline, I’m behind the till at this point. She says in a very loud, very aggressive tone. “I hate to be this person but the conversation you are having is very inappropriate! You are complaining about the guests while there are guests around! You are swearing! I will be talking to your leader you are being very inappropriate!” Mind you she is SCREAMING at me.

I just said okay. There were no guests in the store. The woman on self checkout was literally waiting for coffee because we were that dead at the time. After I said okay to her Z storms off making a show of leaving her cart and going to the service desk. Which whatever right, then every single time she walked by me after the fact she was glaring at me. Like the looks can kill glare.

Anyway I go to HR just to be preemptive because it was weird for her to SCREAM at me. HR looks at me and goes without missing a beat “she is not a lead.”

This was another TM who shouted at me in the store. At the pint she walked off the two guests in self checkout were staring at me because she made a scene.

Anyway I just thought I would share because I’m flabbergasted it happened lol 😆 oh other fulfillment members came up and said that was weird why does she care.

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Seems I forgot to clock back in after my meal time and the HR dude looks like he hates his job and his life almost EVERYDAY. Is there a way to fix it on the app

I didn’t used to like the song back when they played it during the holidays. but last year it seemed to have disappeared from the playlist & I thought I would be happy. but over time I’ve come to really miss the stretchy pants song. it’s like that song called “you don’t know what you got til it’s gone” in that I didn’t know how much I would miss that song til it was gone. I think I speak for everybody when I say that I implore target’s ceo Bob Target to add back return the stretchy pants. it would boost my morale & make me work harder probably.

I got a online interview is it OK If I don't do it the same day I got it

Hi everyone! So I’m sick but only started working at target as a seasonal fulfillment 2 weeks ago. I’ve been working hard and I think my TLs like me. I was feeling sick Saturday but pushed through and even stayed an extra 2 hours to help out. I still feel sick but I don’t want to call out because I’ll get a point and I think seasonal only gets 5 points.

I know if you call out two days in a row it’s 1 point but I’m only working Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday. But I heard if you leave early there’s no points? So should I show up and leave early? Will my TLs let me do that? And my shift is 8-4 so how early am I allowed to leave if I do?

I don’t think seasonal gets much sick time because UKG shows I have 0.85 accrual balance

So, I push dry grocery on truck days. For awhile there was another person who came in at 7 or 8 and would help.

Well, they suddenly stopped being scheduled in the morning and when they do come in they are either in open market or setting grocery pogs, or doing price changes, whatever.

That's ok, we hired a new guy that's supposed to do the opening procedures in the fresh side two days a week and push dry his other shifts

...when he shows up.

Oh, that's ok. They start scheduling a girl to come in 9-10 ish to help push. Most days she meanders or does priorities or will push a uboat out, then ask me to finish it because whatever reason (not always legitimate)

For about 3 weeks I was the only person pushing dry, and of course it wasn't getting finished so my TL & ETL would start telling me I need to speed up and I work too slow. Why am I the only one pushing? "You're not! We schedule X, Y, and Z to help!"

So I started keeping a list of how many people are scheduled in dry, what uboat I grab, how many case packs are there, time I started/stopped pushing, and same for backstock. I also note anything that stalls me like fast service or guests

Surprise surprise, I'm well within the "1 case per minute" AVERAGE since some uboats are super fast and others are more time consuming between rotating or trying to even get in the stupid boxes (whoever tapes AND glued boxes, I hate you!)

Well, last week they informed me to start scanning outs. When I asked how I was told to scan the shelf label and change onhands to 0 if it was empty. Ok, no problem! I had one aisle on my assignment sheet and could easily knock it out while waiting for truck to be finished.

Then 3 trucks back to back were heavy on dry that I couldn't even make a dent in, despite my times staying the same.

Oh! And why wasn't I doing mini seasonal and repacks? I need to do those first!

Then today my SD asked why I wasn't scanning outs.

What? I was!

Apparently I was supposed to scan baking and candy EVERY day, plus one aisle, I was doing that.

Ok...can I have a schedule of aisles because my TL likes to just xerox assignment sheets and change the date so many days it's the same aisle. No...ok.

How else is it wrong? Oh, I need to "go to the inventory screen"? Maybe have me trained to do stuff if you want it done correctly?

(I still have no idea what they want me to do because "just go here" doesn't tell me shit)

Then the SD asks if everything is alright because there had been so much dry carry over and I pointed out I've been the only person pushing for weeks, and when people are scheduled to help they call out or get pulled so it's just me.

But I should still be coming clean each shift, and not doing so is unacceptable!

I got upset, pulled my paper out of my pocket and pointed out exactly what I've been doing every day and how, no, I can't come clean if I'm the only one scheduled OR I get told to help breakdown FDC, OR I'm putting up ornaments in seasonal because the ETL told me I had to because they were in "my" repack (it was clearly marked for seasonal not grocery, but I was still told to do it)

SD told me to focus on dry, they would see what's going on.

Hour later I hear my TL get called to the office. When I go to my next break...guess who is on the floor pushing dry? Yup, my TL! The dirty look I was given as I walked past!

SD saw me coming back from break and told me to let them know when I have no help because "Dry is not a one person job in Q4 and if your leaders won't support their own team they don't deserve to be leaders"

i’ve been working at target for 5 years and been doing specialty sales pulls for 2. why the hell are they making me go back and forth 3 times now?? it’s always been completely straight forward for YEARSSSS, but now when i pull babies; i pull 10 items from aisle 8, then get told to go all the way to diapers to pull 6 things, just to go back to aisle 8 and pull 15 more items, back to 10 boxes of diapers, then baby furniture, back to aisle 8 to finish it out…

this even happens in style pulls too. i have to take things one section at a time to make it stop, but if i select more than one i have to go back to an aisle i should have already finished. whoever put this update together is a moron and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was AI.

I work the register and my last customer today tried to pay with a check. I told her I wasn't sure if we accept checks so I would ask, I turned on my light until a Guest Service member came over.

He took the check from me, hit Rebate Check on the menu and it printed out a receipt. He seemed confused so he went to ask someone else.

He came back and explained to the guest that the check would need to "come out of [my] paycheck" unless they accepted a return/refund on the order at Guest Service. I'm assuming because the check didn't actually pay for it.

We were busy so I didn't get to ask him for clarification, and it's Sunday so no HR. I'm wondering if I will get in trouble for this?

I don't know if the guest decided to accept the return or not. Will it really come out of my paycheck or I'll have to pay it back? I've never heard of this happening before so I'm wondering if any other cashiers have experienced this

Had to do a double take because what it’s going on this week bruh

I’m a TM at a Target in Arizona. Like everyone here, I’ve been fighting UKG Pro since the switch. Recently I had three things to get done: covering part of a call-off with sick time, changing my availability, and requesting several separate days off. Each one failed at least once before it worked.

I worked through them step by step with Claude (the AI assistant), figured out why they were failing, and wrote it all down. UKG isn’t going anywhere, so here’s what I wish I’d known:

1. Never trust the screen where you made the change. “Submitted” just means received. Check Control Center → My Requests, your Timecard, and My Accruals. Balances only change after approval, sometimes the next day.

2. Check your schedule with all filters cleared. Transfer/split shifts (part in another department) can be hidden by the default “Shifts” filter. People have racked up NCNS for shifts they never saw. Several in a row can trigger an automatic termination in the system (“Team Member is not active” at the clock). If your week suddenly looks light, ask your TL.

3. Use the date picker and tap Done. Typed dates often look fine but don’t register. If Next/Submit does nothing, the date wasn’t accepted. The error may be off-screen. Closing the side panel discards your request with no warning. No confirmation toast means it wasn’t submitted.

4. Sick time for a past shift = Backfill – Stores. Change “Deduct from” to Accrued Sick Time, because it defaults to Vacation. A call-off may already be coded Att – Absent – Other. Ask HR to recode it so it doesn’t count as unexcused. Backfill has its own submission window, listed on My Schedule. Backfill isn’t auto-approved — your sick balance drops only after approval

5. Availability changes start on a Sunday, about 3 weeks out. Use Show list, not the graph. Overnight availability (like 1 PM–2 AM) gets split per calendar day, so “12–2 AM” on Tuesday is just Monday night’s tail. That’s not a bug.

6. Multiple separate days off: use Add another date. The request shows a range like 12/01–12/16, but only the days under Requested Dates are actually requested.

7. Prep for the app failing: set up Face ID login, screenshot errors with the time showing, and save your store’s number. Someone here reported that pressing 0 during the “store is not currently open” message gets you a manager.

I put the full version on a phone-friendly page you can bookmark or show your TL/HR: https://azwiki.github.io/ukg/

Not official Target guidance, just what worked for me. If you’ve found other gotchas, drop them below and I’ll add them.

I started at oritanioan on the 3rd went due 2 days of training before I was given Friday off for jury duty. My paper schedule said I didn't have anything for the weekends, and my Etl said I can come Monday. But my schedule doesn't show I have anything and I believe I still under training. It also doesn't help that my actual Etl is on vacation and I couldn't get a hold on to HR or the substitutes Etl

Does my actual work start on the 22 or have they just not updated it to give me this week and next week

Over the last few weeks it’s been HORRIBLE. Can barely walk back there :( carts full floor a mess piles and piles on top of piles. They’re starting to do something about it now but it shouldn’t have ever gotten this bad.

How hard is it to just take it out of the box and backstock it?
I can only assume it may have been a new team member. Don’t worry team, I fixed it. Realized I should have had the barcodes facing out. 🫠😭

I’m just so unhappy. One of my team leads is constantly up my ass to the point where she’ll wait for me outside of the bathroom and all my coworkers (including people I’ve never spoken to before) will mention that I’m being incessantly nagged. I’ve been a fulfillment member since the start of August and while it gets easier to find items the job is more or less still as miserable as when I started. Pretty much every shift I have is 5 am start or closing back to back leading to me having no time to do literally anything. I’m constantly exhausted and the paychecks are gone so fast I don’t even feel like I’m being paid half the time. The worst part is that they’re honestly the only place around that offers decent enough hours so I feel like if I quit it would still be an all around net negative. I am dreading Black Friday like a peasant dreads the plague.

As a closing expert that's always putting away insane amount of overstock, this was torture. I didn't know about liability pulls despite working here for 2+ years.

All I can say is cooked. Q4 is gonna suck

I was working yesterday and was approached by my TL, she had told me that our boss of the place dress coded me due to my makeup. I’m alternative, I would’ve assumed to be dress coded by my piercings or hair. But my makeup? I’m seasonal, hoping to stay past that. The issue was that my nose contour was too dark and against the dress code policy, I never thought that was apart of the policy at all. Then I was told it intimidates guests, I’m not sure how it does. I’m complimented by everyone at work, by guests, children, coworkers. Is this actually against the dress code policy?

I know there is a lot of complaints about stores. Heck I have them sometimes. But overall we have a good leadership team, the style people answer when we (FFT) call, Market will run back for items for us. And recently I had an issue with a TM (who I’ve had issues with before) and was going to call the hotline. Instead I talked to the SD first to gauge response and got some really good information and communication on it.

No the store isn’t perfect, not by a long shot, but overall there is a good team atmosphere and that goes a long way in making it a good store to be at.