I quit… here’s why.

I walked out mid shift last week and submitted my resignation effective immediately in the parking lot. I had officially reached my breaking point and after taking a week to decompress, I have never felt better. I have no regrets at all. For some backstory, at my years in target I had worked in multiple departments; HR, Style, GM, and Inbound. So let’s get into why I left: - my leaders repeatedly talked shit behind my back and even asked one of my peers “do you think she’s close to quitting or do we HAVE to fire her?” - My team lead when I got back from my LOA after emergency life saving surgery said “I was kinda hoping you just wouldn’t come back you know… like maybe just die on the operating table or something…” - When I worked as an HRE, my ETL at the time sucked so bad that one day we got into a fight over a TM who hadn’t received her pay in 3 months and my ETL tried to blame me for it when I had already emailed her on how to get the tm paid from the FIRST WEEK and she told me “well… you know I can’t be expected to read ALL my emails” - Also while I was in HR I had an injury and was on crutches and a TL called an “all hands on deck” for reshop and came up to me to push a shopping cart worth of reshop… again I was ok crutches… and she told me “I’m a TL… I’m not asking… I’m telling.” And then sat in the HR office the entire time. - My TL told me to quit to my face when I wouldn’t give into her fighting and she also told me I was “too defensive to talk to when I pretend not to care”… she was bringing up my late ins from 2 months prior… no I did not care about my late ins that I had already been coached for ON THE SALES FLOOR - Speaking of coaching on the sales floor, I was passing out and not feeling good before my surgery and I knew something was wrong so I asked to go home early and she proceeded to coach me for asking to go home early on the sales floor in front of another team member (I ended up leaving early without her permission and took myself to the hospital… I was septic.) And after months of dealing with intimidation, getting yelled at, harassed… my final straw… - I watched an ETL get physically aggressive with a TM over “not calling out for more U-boats” while unloading the truck. The TM did call out and was ignored by the ETL. He got physical, pushed him back, and screamed in his face. It was scary and unacceptable. I went to the HR ETL immediately and he said “well… we can look into our options…” I called the hotline and the department of labor. The next day I came in and the ETL was still there and giving me dirty looks. I realized I can’t do this anymore, all the shit I’ve been through here… it’s not supposed to be this hard to come in and get a pay check. So I walked out. Moral of the story: it’s just target. They will never care about you and not that they have to but I want everyone to know that it’s okay to take care of yourself. Call off, call in late, take your vacations, go to the doctor appts… they do not give a shit about whether you live or die. I wish they would recognize that we are human but they won’t, at least not at my old store. Promoting myself to guest was the best decision I ever made and I hope everyone gets the opportunity to find something better and less toxic than Target.