I May Be Pissed Off

But I don't know for sure yet.

At my store, I asked if I could work in the pharmacy. Makes sense because I'm in school to be a pharmacist. So the LOD tells me that I could start shadowing over there "to see if I like it." It's not a matter of me liking it, it's going to be my career. Like everything with Target, the LOD gave me no start date. All of our professors say that working in a pharmacy helps immensely with school work, and so I'm kinda wanting to get into one soon. When I transferred, they had told me there were no openings in the pharmacy and that's why I think they first went to the "shadowing" thing. I was under the assumption, because they told me, that as soon as there was an opening, I could work over there.

Thus bringing me to my problem. I'm sitting in class and I hear some classmates talking about starting to work at Target. I listen in and notice they are filling out an internship application for the state it's in (We're on the border of 2 states). I'm thinking, 'Oh fucking really? They tell me there's no openings, I have no idea when I can start shadowing, and they're taking applications!?' What the fuck!? Granted, my hours aren't the greatest, because I have awkward class hours that don't mesh well with a daytime pharmacy, but at least they could have told me that, instead of keeping my hopes dragging along.

I have finally reached that point at work where I've realized that I'm too old to work at Target doing basic things. I'm damn good at them, but I'm the only college-aged person at the front end. Every other cashier is still in high school or elderly. I literally have no one to relate to. I'm starting to feel ridiculous cashiering because I feel I'm wasting my potential. My old store was different because there weren't as many places to work so the Target in town was 'the' place to work. A vast majority of the whole store was college-aged people. They're weren't as many minors, I would say at most 20% of the cashiers. Even then, I still hated cashiering because, and I'm not trying to come off as cocky, but I'm above that.

So I went and applied at a different pharmacy as an assistant aka tech, and I got the job. Someone obviously thinks I'm good enough to work for them and I'm excited to start. So I changed my availability at Target to make sure the pharmacy has priority. Yes, I'm still gonna work there for now. I still love Target as a whole, but there are areas for improvement.

Another thing is that if my classmates get the job in the pharmacy at the store I work at, they'll get to see me doing a piddly job. I don't much care what they think of me, it's just that I have a problem with someone coming into a business fresh and is already higher up on the chain. Especially when I have almost 5 YEARS of experience with the company. I should have preference when it comes to moving into the pharmacy. After all, it would take less to train me because I already know how the store operates, how the computer system works, how to work with the type of guests that we get, etc. It's gonna take a lot more to train a new person in than it is to move a current employee.

I was willing to continue my employment with Target because I wanted to work in this pharmacy. It was the only reason I stayed at my old store. I was ready to quit back in June. I still want to work for Target, but I don't know if I can without working in the pharmacy now, or maybe way down the line as a pharmacist.

I applied at the different pharmacy because I was sick of waiting. They told me that I could shadow without a mention of when. It has been 3+ weeks since I had originally asked. No one has said a word to me about it since, and they waited too long. So now I will be an asset to another pharmacy and I'm sorry to say that they won't get the chance to see how great I could be.

We'll see how it goes from here, but I don't know how long I can hold out.

So Boring

I apologize for not being around much, but it's because there isn't much happening in the store. It's literally dead for most of the day, nowhere NEAR what it was like at my old store.

Even at Guest Service people aren't that bitchy. The only things are returns from wedding/baby showers which are a complete disaster.

But, my first guest yesterday was a Canadian, and it made me glad that I don't see them often. She (along with her fanny pack, like usual) asked what the exchange rate was. I tell her it was 1.18 and she asks what that means. Ok, you fucking retard, you are exchanging money, YOU should know. Well of course she goes for her Canadian cash and so I tell her that we don't exchange money, but we take it at the registers. Apparently they're still too fucking retarded to exchange their money before they come down. She then asks how much she would get for $1 Canadian. I tell her, using simple math, it's 88 cents. Insert bitchy Canadian tirade yet again here. She yells at me because their money is "worth more" than ours now. My favorite part is being civil yet mean back when I get rude people. I say, "That's the rate our bank set." She asks if we take Visa or Interac(sp?) (their debit system) and I tell her we do take Visa and that some Interac cards work and some don't, and we don't know unless we try them. She starts blabbing about how she's just going to use her Visa because ... actually I stopped listening. Oh, and I forgot she was not even close to the counter when any of this conversation took place, which is normal for Canadians. Stand at least 5 feet away and just yell. Must be another thing they teach in Canada in the 'How to be completely oblivious to the world around you' program.

I still don't understand how so many canadians can come down during the week to shop so much. Does everyone have jobs? Or school? I bet the days they are down here is when they teach them how to be polite.

That is all.