Target reviews about "training"

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2.0
Nov 29, 2025
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Pros

- Decent hourly pay - Work environment is upbeat compared to other chain stores - Fairly easy opportunities to develop and move up

Cons

- Inconsistent hours - Poor leadership - Micromanaging - Lack of (or superficial) communication between leads and team members - Very few SD’s and leads care for team members’ well being and concerns - No sense of team building and creating a workplace culture - Terribly lacking training for new team members (at least for Small Format stores, the employees get about a week of training which covers every department in the store, and they are expected to do their work efficiently) - Team members are expected to push merchandise as quickly as possible and are micromanaged to the point where if we take time to help guests or even take 30 seconds to socialize with other TM’s here and there, we are reprimanded for being “slow and inefficient” - Multiple complaints from employees go unaddressed, employees left to suffer - Company seems to have shifted to milking as much out of their employees as possible, leading to the few good ones to suffer and take the bulk of the workload, but also take the bulk of the expectations and criticisms from the leads - No sense of leadership in stores; Team Leads are for a large part reduced to delegating tasks, rather than actual leadership duties

4.0
Nov 14, 2025

Good Part Time Workplace

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Pros

- easy job with clear expectations/roles - clear training - good retail experience - good if you like customer service jobs

Cons

- during rushes managers cannot come help quickly leading to angry customers - coworkers have no desire to create a community, making it lonely

3.0
Nov 15, 2025
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Pros

Work life balance, pto, sick time, free college courses, medical insurance, fertility benefits, surgery benefits

Cons

Management, favoritism, outdated policies on attendance, tenured team members get similar pay to new hires, tenured employees get pushed to do the bulk of work due to management not fully training new hires

1.0
Nov 8, 2025
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Pros

A few good people that work there. Seen as "outcasts" and were the ones doing all of the hard work and labor. These "outcasts" were good people with good work ethic.

Cons

Easily the worst job I’ve ever had. No training – thrown in blind, then punished for not knowing. Gaslighting – asked to learn tasks; told “those won’t apply to you” → manager later denied it and used it against me. Micromanaging – nitpicked over tiny details, ignored when help was needed. Leaders avoided training me entirely. Blatant favoritism – workers dating management got lounge time; long-timers gave zero help or advice. Outcasts like me got full pallets solo. Disgusting cliques – leaders encouraged the in-group/out-group dynamic. Double standards – gossip and coffee breaks for the clique, solo grind for everyone else. 25¢ raise after 6 months of self-teaching and covering shifts. Ghosted review – TL skipped it; store director read a lifeless script with zero feedback or personality. HR betrayal – casual conversations became gossip ammo for management. No accountability – toxic, lazy leads protected at every level. Exclusion & anxiety – made to feel disposable, anxious, and silenced — by design

5.0
Nov 12, 2025

Keeps you busy!

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Pros

Early shift, always busy, and the morning goes by fast. Good management.

Cons

Training wasn’t the best experience.

4.0
Nov 21, 2025

Visual Lead

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Pros

Job opportunities Flexibility Diversified daily responsibilities

Cons

Payroll Lack of a team Role relies heavily on influencing and training others

1.0
Nov 23, 2025
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Pros

- Somewhat flexible scheduling - Good benefits package.

Cons

- Unrealistic time goals and constant pressure to work faster - Age discrimination (must practically be an athlete in your prime to meet company expectations, otherwise prepare to be nagged constantly and written up when time-goals are not reached) - Favoritism and unprofessional team leads who are constantly stressed and sometimes even crying after meetings with higher leadership (probably because few team members reaching their time goals, and upper leadership and corporate adamantly denies any issue with this, despite common knowledge) - Decreasing amount of training for new hires, often leading to messier stores and inventory problems - Penny-pinching wherever possible, reduced AC and harder work = exhaustion and burnout

3.0
Nov 20, 2025
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Pros

Discount, team,cross training and hours

Cons

Retaining management rude guest holiday season

5.0
Nov 28, 2025

Was fun but long hours

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Pros

Great friendships built, amazing training for after target life

Cons

Long hours, worked alot of holidays

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