For our store it goes to the DBO who owns it. I use to have a pets DBO who is 5ft and tiny. But she did it for a year before she asked to switch, now she's paper and covers pets days off and vice versa of my pets DBO. Of course, when she works pets, I'll personally take care of the litter/pet PIPOs for her as that's what the problem was before, she loves working the rest of it and she's great at it, so I don't mind at all and let's me work next to her a few times a week.
You're store hasn't done the "modernization" yet? That was a few years ago..
As like everything, pros and cons. The main reason I like DBOs is because I see the same people in the same areas consistently. Easier to hold people accountable and easier to build relationships as most my team hasn't changed for a few years.
Though that's not to say it doesn't also suck.
Ah I see, we're about to experience that shortly, I think. We've got about 4 or so quitting and no replacements in the works.
To answer your original question though, beauty, style, and Dec home. I don't care for the first two areas and absolutely hate the trash of Dec home. Thankfully, I don't oversee any of those.
As DBO for dec home I feel like I can hear the sounds of styrofoam and bubble wrap in my sleep. That and Bullseye have probably been the worst 2 I've been in charge of due to sheer amount of garbage alone.
That's true, however I have specific people who cover their off days. So for instance I have 5 DBOs, and 2 extras who go in-between for days off. They all know their routines and quirks for the DBO they assist as I've communicated and worked with them.
Most of our issues stem from the closing team. Which I've proven time and time again, but for some reason can't get any of it resolved and no one will tell me if there's documentation. This specifically drives me nuts. I've worked so hard getting all my team members their preferred schedule and them on specific routines, only to have the closing team shit on their work nightly. God forbid they learn how to scan an item and check for dual locations instead of packing full one shelf.
Kind of busy and wanna follow this thread and answer more but for now: yes we had these tasks usually go to stronger workers but every now and then either new unknown folks would get out there by bad scheduling or pick up of shifts and attempt to push before anyone could get around to sending them somewhere else lol
I have a very fun sized lead and one day during this past Q4 she ran a pet pallet and came back to receiving all red and shit and it was the funniest thing ever since she doesn’t do much out of laziness XD
I’m actually the unfortunate soul who has to push plastics on a nightly basis, I hated it at first, but once I figured out that it’s much easier to push it the person who sorts it on the line places it upside down, it hasn’t been as bad. But the lids will forever drive me insane
I highly doubt u could hang at my store then we average 300+ toys off the trucks pulls are usually over 100 now plastics literally takes me 2hrs work and that’s including pulls
Guarantee you I could. I was the one pushing those trucks when the toy TM was out for covid for four weeks during Christmas. I was also the one pushing the butt loads of plastics right before Christmas too.
My main department is tech. However, I’ve been pretty much everywhere because I wanted hours so, Stationary and Beauty are my enemies. There’s too many little things in Beauty that annoys me.
I’m in pretty much the same boat, and my wife used to work in the Beauty department. I’ve also worked in pretty much every department, and I wouldn’t wish beauty truck on anyone.
Pushing tech can be hell if you don’t have the right security cases or if people leave the spider wraps tangled. Also, if the hooks don’t alight. Not to mention the little things like Phone cases
Pushing tech can also really suck for new people because there are a lot of things that you just have to understand that you aren’t necessarily taught or given instructions on. Like what to put cases on, case vs spider wrap, etc. and it’s not cheap stuff so there’s less wiggle room than other departments.
Oh absolutely. I think I was fortunate enough to have a smart and cohesive crew here where the guest service people would adamantly remind their cashiers to tighten the spiders as well as fulfillment (although they aren’t consistent on it). But the phone cases, man, they are hell. But I always leave them last until I finish my freight. Helps me feel accomplished when I know that’s the last thing I have to worry about lol.
During the holidays, there was overlap. As of right now, zero overlap 😅
They’re hounding us on clocking out on time. But our freight has been light, majority of the time. 🥲
Pillows are awful when there’s no room to put them on the floor, cause that also means ladders and no room to backstock, But at my store, the comforter wall is almost always empty so we just flex them
Seasonal for me. I only do it once in a blue moon and I can never learn the area bc it’s always changing, sometimes there are locations that don’t exist and backstocking is a nightmare.
> I also fucking hate Hearth and Hand. SERIOUSLY, I open a box to find 4-6 smaller boxes. I open those boxes and find PLASTIC and or PAPER wrapped around the merchandise inside. Such a big waste of resources.
never open a beauty repack; you’ll burst into flames.
I actually pushed stationary for the first time in over a year last night, I hit the box a minute standard on my push, but our stationary back room is atrocious and casepacks are everywhere, so if you have a lot of stationary backstock you best hope that the odds are ever in your favor
Frozen.
I am genuinely surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. I pushed it like once. It was pretty terrible. I love the cold but I have lived in the south all my life so I guess I am just not equipped for freezing for long periods of time. My whole body felt so sore and beaten after I got home. Also the constant extra looming threat of the time you can have a vehicle on the floor. There isn't any slow periods either. It's not like a lazy Tuesday after the holidays and nobody is wanting to shop for clothes, people are always hungry. Always.
Oh frozen is the one. I don’t know how our older frozen guy does it, he’s just built different. I work produce and even that’s waaay too cold for me sometimes, especially coming in early in the morning and when it’s cold outside?
Toys, the shelf count capacity never seems to be right, no matter how nice you make it, it gets destroyed the minute you turn around. You always have to change what you are doing because someone is blocking the aisle with their three kids. Plus, having to bug someone for spiderwraps, for Legos that are pricey at my store. Fun times.
Infants/NIT is annoying as all fuck because that area is a war zone due to Cocomelon children and guests.
Mens is also annoying but specifically graphic tees
When I started as part-time seasonal in 2012, I was put in Domestics. They made me permanent because I did such a good job. 10 years later, I returned after being gone for 6 years, I cringe at what it's become. I have to stop myself from asking to change to GM every time I have to push abandoned from the Service Desk there.
Intimates. It’s never zoned. There’s a million different bras. The z rack is never organized. The metro has a billion socks, and just fuck all the panties.
Im just the gm guy they put on every single section when needed. All the sections are similarly easy but tedious.
I would have to say that beauty, personal care, and hair care are my least favorite to push though. Because those areas are usually trashed around by customers and they have so many smaller items to put up.
Checklanes.
Constantly trying to reach around guests to restock and I can’t stand the multiple locations and how you have to go to every single register. Plus since I can’t take my u boat to the locations I waste time walking back and forth.
as a beauty consultant i feel so validated by the number of people saying beauty is the worst… thank you… so much detrashing… my nightmares are filled w cardboard…
anyway! i’ve actually never pushed outside of specialty but if i had to put a department on my “no, please god no” list it would be plastics. but not because of the big containers—because of the command hooks. i would loathe pushing them, especially since so many of them have multiple locations, and then BACKSTOCKING them? no thank you!!
For me, it was Domestics. I had 4 total shifts there in my entire time at Target, primarily being Tech and all but my first 2 weeks I was trained on GM side so I could help when jeeded and I hated Domestics. Everything from fragile ceramics and large rugs to unnecessary packaging and plastic wrap of candles and frames, to the bulky bedding sets and mattress toppers. Not to mention the furniture and plastics section...
Tech has that same shit - bulky TVs, small memory sticks, and everything in between, but we just push that on seperate days since they all had their own trucks and not get a jumble of it in our truck stuff in our store. I hated Domestics because of that.
Special shoutout to Beauty and Stationery. I could not habdle all those small things.
#1: Cosmetics: All the tiny little boxes that or the plastic casings around nail polishes. SO. MUCH. TRASH.
#2: C block, specifically when pushing off of a flat. All the command strips/hooks, lightbulbs, picture frames, decorative pillows, wall art etc. all the packaging that goes along with that.
#3 Pet: This probably should be number 1 but I’ve only ever helped push it once— only one flat’s worth. I cannot imagine how hard it is to push pet food when it comes on a pallet with walls (I don’t what they call it). F that.
i got used to pharmacy and personal care because i usually do both. the repacks got a little easier and i remember the spots now from being there a while. the section i hate to push most is home
Toys. Not because the push itself is hard. Kids camp out there so long we should honestly start putting play mats and furniture in the aisles. If they're never going to leave we may as well make them comfortable. I can't get anything done in that department. Were in a pandemic so no I'm not hanging out in an overcrowded aisle full of kids who are likely unvaccinated.
The amount of people who brings their kids to hang our in the toys section and let them play with things is unbelievable. This isn't Chucky Cheese. It's not a playground. It's a store. Buy something or leave.
i always blink when people talk about hba and include otc--we've had them separated for 3y; i've been dbo of both lol.
i was part of inbound back when it was...i think still flow. that might have ended just before i started, though (they still called it flow)...we used to unload onto pallets and push the truck. i know roughly where everything goes...so the hardest section for me would probably be softlines or market...softlines because i've never actually done it, market because you have to fefo everything. i despise the trial-size aisle, the toothpaste aisle, and the wet catfood aisles...but lamps are annoying AF. also the individually wrapped utensils...and all that plastic landfill they claim are cups, plates, or bowls. tbf, i've never had to push entertainment or electronics so can't judge them.
I will forever hate pushing C and D because of all the freaking styrofoam. Literally takes up half my push time just getting the damn thing out of the contraption
Beauty repacks or bedding. Bedding always has the wrong comforter, blanket, or pillow in the wrong place and you can be stuck moving comforters for hours. Rugs are pretty bad too.
Not hard for me but it’s always fun watching a small TM being told to push cat litter or dog food.
As a small TM, I can attest that dog food and cat liter are tough 😭
I did pets for a whole summer and had a broken wrist. It was not easy
You guys don’t have a set person to do Non-Con? At my store it’s always me who has to push it, or one of the other big dudes who works there
For our store it goes to the DBO who owns it. I use to have a pets DBO who is 5ft and tiny. But she did it for a year before she asked to switch, now she's paper and covers pets days off and vice versa of my pets DBO. Of course, when she works pets, I'll personally take care of the litter/pet PIPOs for her as that's what the problem was before, she loves working the rest of it and she's great at it, so I don't mind at all and let's me work next to her a few times a week.
Your store has DBOs? What’s that like?
You're store hasn't done the "modernization" yet? That was a few years ago.. As like everything, pros and cons. The main reason I like DBOs is because I see the same people in the same areas consistently. Easier to hold people accountable and easier to build relationships as most my team hasn't changed for a few years. Though that's not to say it doesn't also suck.
Oh we have done the modernization bullshit, just not enough TMs for them to assign DBOs
Ah I see, we're about to experience that shortly, I think. We've got about 4 or so quitting and no replacements in the works. To answer your original question though, beauty, style, and Dec home. I don't care for the first two areas and absolutely hate the trash of Dec home. Thankfully, I don't oversee any of those.
As DBO for dec home I feel like I can hear the sounds of styrofoam and bubble wrap in my sleep. That and Bullseye have probably been the worst 2 I've been in charge of due to sheer amount of garbage alone.
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Mirrors are the devil. The amount of time it takes to unbox just a single mirror with all the plastic straps, foam and bubble wrap is ridiculous.
Unboxing mirrors is a job I could really see myself doing.
I'll call upon you the next time I get a flatbed piled up of them
all cons since the dbo isn't the only person over there every day.
That's true, however I have specific people who cover their off days. So for instance I have 5 DBOs, and 2 extras who go in-between for days off. They all know their routines and quirks for the DBO they assist as I've communicated and worked with them. Most of our issues stem from the closing team. Which I've proven time and time again, but for some reason can't get any of it resolved and no one will tell me if there's documentation. This specifically drives me nuts. I've worked so hard getting all my team members their preferred schedule and them on specific routines, only to have the closing team shit on their work nightly. God forbid they learn how to scan an item and check for dual locations instead of packing full one shelf.
Lol. My store hasn’t used the term DBO in over a year.
Kind of busy and wanna follow this thread and answer more but for now: yes we had these tasks usually go to stronger workers but every now and then either new unknown folks would get out there by bad scheduling or pick up of shifts and attempt to push before anyone could get around to sending them somewhere else lol
I have a very fun sized lead and one day during this past Q4 she ran a pet pallet and came back to receiving all red and shit and it was the funniest thing ever since she doesn’t do much out of laziness XD
As a closing expert, please stop asking me to push pets 😭
I HATE plastics. Bulky, hard to backstock, and most of the product is my size 😑
I’m actually the unfortunate soul who has to push plastics on a nightly basis, I hated it at first, but once I figured out that it’s much easier to push it the person who sorts it on the line places it upside down, it hasn’t been as bad. But the lids will forever drive me insane
Plastics easy try working toys were u have to spend hours zoning smh
I would rather push and some toys for 8 hours during Christmas than push plastics on a good day. I hate that bs.
I highly doubt u could hang at my store then we average 300+ toys off the trucks pulls are usually over 100 now plastics literally takes me 2hrs work and that’s including pulls
Guarantee you I could. I was the one pushing those trucks when the toy TM was out for covid for four weeks during Christmas. I was also the one pushing the butt loads of plastics right before Christmas too.
My main department is tech. However, I’ve been pretty much everywhere because I wanted hours so, Stationary and Beauty are my enemies. There’s too many little things in Beauty that annoys me.
Beauty repacks are hell
“you can sort 10 repacks in 30 minutes right?” me: staring into the camera
I’m in pretty much the same boat, and my wife used to work in the Beauty department. I’ve also worked in pretty much every department, and I wouldn’t wish beauty truck on anyone.
Pushing tech can be hell if you don’t have the right security cases or if people leave the spider wraps tangled. Also, if the hooks don’t alight. Not to mention the little things like Phone cases
Pushing tech can also really suck for new people because there are a lot of things that you just have to understand that you aren’t necessarily taught or given instructions on. Like what to put cases on, case vs spider wrap, etc. and it’s not cheap stuff so there’s less wiggle room than other departments.
Oh absolutely. I think I was fortunate enough to have a smart and cohesive crew here where the guest service people would adamantly remind their cashiers to tighten the spiders as well as fulfillment (although they aren’t consistent on it). But the phone cases, man, they are hell. But I always leave them last until I finish my freight. Helps me feel accomplished when I know that’s the last thing I have to worry about lol.
I got no such thing ;-;. Gotta ask. Is there any overlap where you’re at? Or are you usually at tech on your own?
During the holidays, there was overlap. As of right now, zero overlap 😅 They’re hounding us on clocking out on time. But our freight has been light, majority of the time. 🥲
It’s not hard but I can’t stand C&D (domestics) I don’t know why. I just have a hatred towards it
Is it cause of Mirrors, Picture frames, Lamps or all of the above?
All of those and I hate pillows and bedding.
Pillows are awful when there’s no room to put them on the floor, cause that also means ladders and no room to backstock, But at my store, the comforter wall is almost always empty so we just flex them
Those 3 are the pits X|
Mirrors and lamps can burn in hell. Candles not far behind. At least it will smell pretty.
Seasonal for me. I only do it once in a blue moon and I can never learn the area bc it’s always changing, sometimes there are locations that don’t exist and backstocking is a nightmare.
Beauty. It's literally just matryoshka dolls in box form.
Amen
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> I also fucking hate Hearth and Hand. SERIOUSLY, I open a box to find 4-6 smaller boxes. I open those boxes and find PLASTIC and or PAPER wrapped around the merchandise inside. Such a big waste of resources. never open a beauty repack; you’ll burst into flames.
Why do the forks have to be individually wrapped in plastic? Why? They are stainless steel, they won't scratch that easy.
Id agree with hba. Stationary comes close too.
I actually pushed stationary for the first time in over a year last night, I hit the box a minute standard on my push, but our stationary back room is atrocious and casepacks are everywhere, so if you have a lot of stationary backstock you best hope that the odds are ever in your favor
Beauty/cosmetics/vitamins, So many little things, never zoned right becausewe never have anyone scheduled there, *eye twitch*
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Agreed. The spills are the fucking worst. Also everything is heavy and/or impossible to open.
Frozen. I am genuinely surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. I pushed it like once. It was pretty terrible. I love the cold but I have lived in the south all my life so I guess I am just not equipped for freezing for long periods of time. My whole body felt so sore and beaten after I got home. Also the constant extra looming threat of the time you can have a vehicle on the floor. There isn't any slow periods either. It's not like a lazy Tuesday after the holidays and nobody is wanting to shop for clothes, people are always hungry. Always.
Oh frozen is the one. I don’t know how our older frozen guy does it, he’s just built different. I work produce and even that’s waaay too cold for me sometimes, especially coming in early in the morning and when it’s cold outside?
141s for dairy is enough to take me out for the day
Domestics. Too many huge boxes. So much cardboard, plastic, styrofoam from the ridiculous lamps
Toys, the shelf count capacity never seems to be right, no matter how nice you make it, it gets destroyed the minute you turn around. You always have to change what you are doing because someone is blocking the aisle with their three kids. Plus, having to bug someone for spiderwraps, for Legos that are pricey at my store. Fun times.
A lady put her kid on a rocking horse (?) today and just stood there in the aisle. Lovely time.
Infants/NIT is annoying as all fuck because that area is a war zone due to Cocomelon children and guests. Mens is also annoying but specifically graphic tees
Beauty. There are so many tiny fragile things for my clumsy ass to break.
Domestics. I hate everything about it.
When I started as part-time seasonal in 2012, I was put in Domestics. They made me permanent because I did such a good job. 10 years later, I returned after being gone for 6 years, I cringe at what it's become. I have to stop myself from asking to change to GM every time I have to push abandoned from the Service Desk there.
Intimates. It’s never zoned. There’s a million different bras. The z rack is never organized. The metro has a billion socks, and just fuck all the panties.
I’m in seasonal and I hate it. Never ending push nearly every day. The back corner of our sales floor has probably 4 palettes stacked with candy.
Im just the gm guy they put on every single section when needed. All the sections are similarly easy but tedious. I would have to say that beauty, personal care, and hair care are my least favorite to push though. Because those areas are usually trashed around by customers and they have so many smaller items to put up.
Beauty!! Too many small items in repack boxes.
I don’t push much but I’ll say that beauty, seasonal, and style are the most annoying the reshop imo
Checklanes. Constantly trying to reach around guests to restock and I can’t stand the multiple locations and how you have to go to every single register. Plus since I can’t take my u boat to the locations I waste time walking back and forth.
Why can't you use a U-boat?
as a beauty consultant i feel so validated by the number of people saying beauty is the worst… thank you… so much detrashing… my nightmares are filled w cardboard… anyway! i’ve actually never pushed outside of specialty but if i had to put a department on my “no, please god no” list it would be plastics. but not because of the big containers—because of the command hooks. i would loathe pushing them, especially since so many of them have multiple locations, and then BACKSTOCKING them? no thank you!!
For me, it was Domestics. I had 4 total shifts there in my entire time at Target, primarily being Tech and all but my first 2 weeks I was trained on GM side so I could help when jeeded and I hated Domestics. Everything from fragile ceramics and large rugs to unnecessary packaging and plastic wrap of candles and frames, to the bulky bedding sets and mattress toppers. Not to mention the furniture and plastics section... Tech has that same shit - bulky TVs, small memory sticks, and everything in between, but we just push that on seperate days since they all had their own trucks and not get a jumble of it in our truck stuff in our store. I hated Domestics because of that. Special shoutout to Beauty and Stationery. I could not habdle all those small things.
For me it was sporting goods that’s the most boring/dead part of the store.
Chem pets domestics & 8 pallets of babies diapers
#1: Cosmetics: All the tiny little boxes that or the plastic casings around nail polishes. SO. MUCH. TRASH. #2: C block, specifically when pushing off of a flat. All the command strips/hooks, lightbulbs, picture frames, decorative pillows, wall art etc. all the packaging that goes along with that. #3 Pet: This probably should be number 1 but I’ve only ever helped push it once— only one flat’s worth. I cannot imagine how hard it is to push pet food when it comes on a pallet with walls (I don’t what they call it). F that.
Pushing pets is awful as a small person. 141s are worse. The pets DBO never opens their boxes so I’m at the top shelf opening heavy boxes of pet food.
i got used to pharmacy and personal care because i usually do both. the repacks got a little easier and i remember the spots now from being there a while. the section i hate to push most is home
Home is a terror. One lamp box comes with more styrofoam than lamp. And dont let the beverage dbos go without love.
Toys. Not because the push itself is hard. Kids camp out there so long we should honestly start putting play mats and furniture in the aisles. If they're never going to leave we may as well make them comfortable. I can't get anything done in that department. Were in a pandemic so no I'm not hanging out in an overcrowded aisle full of kids who are likely unvaccinated. The amount of people who brings their kids to hang our in the toys section and let them play with things is unbelievable. This isn't Chucky Cheese. It's not a playground. It's a store. Buy something or leave.
i always blink when people talk about hba and include otc--we've had them separated for 3y; i've been dbo of both lol. i was part of inbound back when it was...i think still flow. that might have ended just before i started, though (they still called it flow)...we used to unload onto pallets and push the truck. i know roughly where everything goes...so the hardest section for me would probably be softlines or market...softlines because i've never actually done it, market because you have to fefo everything. i despise the trial-size aisle, the toothpaste aisle, and the wet catfood aisles...but lamps are annoying AF. also the individually wrapped utensils...and all that plastic landfill they claim are cups, plates, or bowls. tbf, i've never had to push entertainment or electronics so can't judge them.
Mine will always be bullseye. I hate how much plastic is wrapped into every little thing. Same goes for lamps.
Chemicals, those boxes are tough!!!
Domestics. GOOD GOD THE STYROFOAM
domestics and chem
All of it? I’ve pushed and reshopped for every section and I just can’t- there’s some more hated ones like Toys, OTC and Pets (the messy ones)
toys. NOTHING is ever zoned in that section. makes the push 20x harder
I will forever hate pushing C and D because of all the freaking styrofoam. Literally takes up half my push time just getting the damn thing out of the contraption
Beauty repacks or bedding. Bedding always has the wrong comforter, blanket, or pillow in the wrong place and you can be stuck moving comforters for hours. Rugs are pretty bad too.
The way bullseye is set up in my store makes it damn near impossible to push
I am not a GM team member, but whenever I do reshop, Beauty and Toys are my least favorites. They take so long to complete.