There’s a decent pros and cons list, and every workplace is going to have a different vibe, but I loved my team and my manager was fair. You don’t get any tips (just recently they allow tips if the customer insists on giving it.) But the tips I make now don’t even come close to 15 an hour. Target has been steadily increasing their pay too, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it’ll be 15.50 or 16 in a year or two. Working black friday was cool because I got a great deal on stuff I needed to buy that year for our new place. Downside is I was spending more of my paycheck at Target just because I was taking my breaks walking around the store. lol.

The biggest negative is that yes, you will often be totally by yourself, especially if someone calls off. There’s no “stations,” you and your coworkers are just bouncing around doing everything, but we didn’t have mobile orders in our store, so your focus is just on the line in front of you.

Ooh! the biggest plus for me is NO CLEANING BATHROOMS. yuck. Also no taking trash outside to the dumpster. Target has a team member for taking care of our trash cans and employees that deep clean the floors at night, so we were just in charge of keeping our cafe clean, wiping tables, and doing drains/dishes.

It can be lonely sometimes though :’(

that fucking suuuuuucks, it’s so hard to break bad habits, and if enough people don’t care about standards, it would probably make me lose my mind too. We had “transfers” from other licensed stores that just would not. shake. teas. and I would get so tired of trying to nicely remind them not to skip crucial steps.

I think licensed stores leave gaps for people to get sloppy with little to no oversight, especially when we had a district DM that rarely showed up to call out bad practices.