Pros
- Overnight management at City Target is fun, friendly, very focused and seem to care about the individual employees. Each seem to be very capable. - Simply do your job and you will have the opportunity to work various positions from unloading to wave to backroom, etc etc etc. which provides a bit of variety. - Depending on the workload for the night (smaller truck, no PFresh, etc) offers to leave early or stay to work on special projects will be made. - Pay is typical for retail and you receive a bit more for working the graveyard hours. - STL occasionally comes in for the overnight which is good to see as many simply stay in their little office. This one seems to genuinely care. - Regular food-events for reaching store milestones, etc. - Regular community volunteer opportunities; product that qualifies is made available for donation to local food charities ... very cool way for City Target to give back to the community. Keep it up! - Nature of the job itself is strenuous which means you get a free work-out each night you work: unload the truck for an awesome 20-30 minute exercise sprint! You can't help but to lose weight and get in shape when working here. This is a definite "pro". -Diversity-friendly. LGBT-friendly. -Nightly "huddle" to review store operations. - Easy time off requests and shift swap abilities.
Cons
- Retail which means standard retail pay though the overnight does not have to come face-to-face with customers. - Half the employees must make up for the slack of the other half who either call in or no-show frequently or when present simply do not perform. You're rushing around while others take forever, shuffling their feet without a care in the world. You take 5 minutes to walk a single aisle ... Why do they still have a job?!? - Training is extremely non-structured and varies from trainer to trainer. If you want to learn you can but you must specifically request it from the TLs and ETL. If you do your job then you'll be trained. If not, you'll be stuck on the wave. That's a pro though, right? - Food events are *extremely* unhealthy. Cakes, pies, doughnuts, salty soups, pizza, etc. It seems to fit the night-employee demographic (very unhealthy eating habits). I've yet to see healthy alternatives offered such as salads, fruits and veggies, etc. - You're expected to go straight from unloading the truck or another strenuous receiving function to a post-unload function. If you stop to wipe your brow or grab a needed glass of water even for 1 minute, then you're pushed. The TLs are probably pushed into this behavior. - The nightly huddle often feels "kindergarten" in nature. "John Doe helped me open the door! Yay!" - applause. Really??
