Imagine being at target for 10 years. Store manager hires his neighbors kid. That kid gets promoted to a better position 1 month later. Imagine that being a "good" thing.

@aldenbarnes2179

Жыл бұрын

I’ve watched it happen more than once (as a current target employee)

@Mrfinch9999

8 ай бұрын

Sadly, most people are just sheep so they would just rationalize you as a lazy bum and the kid as a hard worker who earned it.

@smoker6683

7 ай бұрын

Nepotism > hard work

@commycasty

Ай бұрын

I was just telling dumb and fuck here, if you stupid ass corporate slaves all banned together and quit on the spot for better wages and formed a union. Target would implode and likely yield. In fact if like idk, 20 of Target's s staff walked out all at once and formed a union things would actually change for the betterment of the employees! Hahaha oh Steve, Americans don't have the spine for that. It's 2019, being a good corporate slave is all we know now. Anyways, gotta get back to getting fucked.

@KubanKevin

27 күн бұрын

And you think a union fixes that? I got news for you - it doesn’t.

this just makes me want to organize more

I bet these actors are union members

@austinnorton7518

5 жыл бұрын

They are

@HighSkiez

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. They are in unions.

@josh24441

5 жыл бұрын

They are. Target got busted for it too

@Infantry9

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't mean anything. Actors work for money and their union executives still got their paychecks. It is all business.

@Infantry9

4 жыл бұрын

They are crappy actors so of course they are. The better actors do not need a union.

Funny how Target hired an actor who is apart of a Union to discuss how Unions are "bad" or "not needed". Even the actor proclaimed he's glad he's in a Union. How can you listen to two people who don't actually even work for the company?

@resistgoogleplusfascists5922

7 жыл бұрын

Good point. Any union actor with integrity would turn down a sleazy gig like this. Wonder who those actors are.

@Timbrock1000

6 жыл бұрын

J Allen That's why it's called "acting".

@cpp1

6 ай бұрын

The actors are fucking sellout assholes to do this shit. They’re in a union, of course, telling low income workers not to unionize like they did for decent benefits and pay like they have!

At 2:27, she says "(unions) are a business with no products to sell ..." Ok, true they don't sell products, but they do sell a service. A service that represents members, and negotiates with the employer to offer better pay and working environments.

@mrfoodskater

Жыл бұрын

LOL

“Open door policy” equals “there is an open door, so get out!”

@dw4101

3 жыл бұрын

One of the biggest red flag terms you could hear at any company

@DietrichGarbo

3 жыл бұрын

@@dw4101 Yep. It means that they want to "negotiate" one on one. Translation, they will strongly imply that you should find another job, and put you on the fast track to the want ads ASAP.

They really think their workers are stupid, if unions were useless they wouldn't being so anti- union.

@sacbeme

2 жыл бұрын

I mean... there is a bit of stupidity when it comes to the american worker's class consciousness. So much so these retail companies have staved off unionizing for a few decades now.

@luther1546

10 ай бұрын

@@sacbeme Commie ! Commie! Traitor to our country!

I just got fired from Target over a small incident with an angry customer and hours they gave me that I was not aware of. I was a quiet and kind worker with everyone and they didn't appreciate it. If a union did exist I would of not been fired after just barely a week. Bunch of corporate scumbags.

@MyDestinyDear

3 жыл бұрын

I got fired from target the day after I returned from surgery hahahaha because I had to have surgery

@ricksanchezsflask8794

2 жыл бұрын

Nah you probably would have still been fired even with a union. They're not going to protect you unless they have reason to do so.

@fallen4life080

Жыл бұрын

@@ricksanchezsflask8794 I worked for a Union ata grocery store in Washington and the Union saves my job. Cause i had an altercation with a rude customer. I was in school and didn't have time to look for other jobs and interview.

@woundernugget

Жыл бұрын

@@ricksanchezsflask8794 you dont know what your talking about. Unions in the private sector have more leverage than those in the public sector. Which means you wont loose your job over something small like that.

@mrfoodskater

Жыл бұрын

If a union existed you would’ve lost hundreds and ur job

‘You all must avoid those evil unions, they want to take your hard-earned money for themselves as profit. Now anyway we’re going to have to cut all of your paychecks so our investors can have bonuses’

I applied at target when I was 19 and interviewed and I didn't get the job. It was a blessing in disguise because when I got the call that I got rejected I was sad but then I applied, and interviewed, and got a heavy machinery job for the city I'm living in. I started out as a digger, then traffic controller, and eventually I got that heavy machinery operator job... And today I make great money great benefits doing easy working and I'm a heavy machinery teacher and tester... And I'm also part of a union, so thanks target. :)

@Ben-iv2fd

2 жыл бұрын

Truly a blessings in the skies

They left out "LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"

@orion3706

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@Phil_Melone

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@ecoRfan

Жыл бұрын

John Oliver’s outro segment on Union Busting is almost a direct parody of this

Everything they're pitching just makes the case for Unions more and more lmao. "You want protection laws, UNIONS got them passed. Why would you want them AGAIN LOL"

being flexible? flexible enough to cut your hours. pay less, work you just under the hours that get you benefits

@resistgoogleplusfascists5922

7 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

IF you mean Target without a union, SO TRUE, minimum wage, no benefits or healthcare! #unionstrong

@KatieBoogie777

5 жыл бұрын

Trader Joes did the same thing, as far as hours and benefits.

@tapehead3832

5 жыл бұрын

As a employee I have found that they almost always make me work 5 hours and 45 minutes or less if they can because if they have me work 6 or more they have to give me another 15 minute break and a unpaid 30 minute break.

@Infantry9

4 жыл бұрын

@@ervincopacapelian5384 #unionssuck Just work at a place with an ESOP.

When I got hired at Target in 2008, they showed me this exact video at orientation.

"Unions are no longer necessary because everything they fought for already is law" Has the same vibe as "Once traveling at 60 miles per hour, your engine is just dead weight and should be thrown overboard"

Unions pay living wages and allow overtime !!!!

One of the crappiest jobs I ever had... And to think I was actually kind of excited when I got hired there!! LOL Somebody should have warned me!!

@Th33Vultur3

7 жыл бұрын

Same with Home Depot

@suziesiamese

6 жыл бұрын

every single person i know who has worked in a Target has told me not to apply there. They dont even let you tip the baristas @ the starbucks counter.

@cruyffssoul2397

3 жыл бұрын

EpiDemic117 All big companies are

I really wish I could meet someone that buys this crap

@tim..indeed

6 жыл бұрын

psgamemaster Just walk into the next grocery store

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

I worked at Target and I don’t but their anti-union crap anymore! #unionstrong!

@tapehead3832

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck finding one that isn't a higher up.

@josh24441

5 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised....

I work for Target, and all I can say is that unions are NEEDED for the open door policy to even EXIST! Not to mention not having a union hurts the team!

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

Very contradicting statements. Do you need them or not(you absolutely do!) #unionstrong

@mrrrmcleod

4 жыл бұрын

Organize!

Target doesn't put the best qualified people in the right positions. A lot of my supervisors were complete morons. Some were cool, but a lot of them were really dumb. Especially my last few.

Yeah all the good things union did are all past. I find it really hard to believe that people actually believe this stuff. How is it they are able to convince people that unions are bad. The chart should also show real wages have declined dramatically. Unions don't make rules for the store the union members do that. A union is only as strong as its members. Yeah because seniority means let's get rid of the ones who make the most and hire new workers for lower wages.

@resistgoogleplusfascists5922

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

Wow you are a sucker if you believe your employer. What you’ll their motivation be to not get you to join if it’s so bad!? #unionstrong

As a current employee of target I can tell you that things haven't changed, there strategy now it's to just not talk to there employees about what a union is. I've been working there for about a year and I have not heard a single person talk about unions ever, and they certainly don't show a video like this anymore. It's more don't talk about it and no one will bring it up.

@tylergust8881

9 ай бұрын

replying to an old comment... but its probably because they don't want to wake a sleeping bear. If they start talking anti-union, people are gonna see just where their priorities lie...

Out dated union punches. Corporate America has a lot to learn. Low hanging fruit arguments.

As a former employee of Target I can confirm that we were required to watch these videos multiple times a year

@ClarkeMarek

4 жыл бұрын

Oddly, I never saw this until about a decade ago. Although they did show us the anti EFCA one. Then again, the last year or so that I worked there, they'd sit me in front of the computer, show a 5 second training clip, and and make me sign a piece of paper saying that I saw the whole damn thing. Glad I left after over a decade and a half.

The guy in the background at 5:24 is so color coded, some amazing camouflage right there

@algomaone121

Жыл бұрын

LOL!!! 😮 It’s like he goes invisible against the video shelves....the military needs him! 😂

Hahaha. This is hilariously not as bad as their video from a few years before that had literal sad violin music, a CGI desolate wasteland with thunderstorm and families huddled in rags as an example of the future if you join a union. Still, I like the contrast between the common complaint that millennials don't or can't keep long term careers with this video literally saying seniority is worthless. Also, am I the only union worker who can go straight to their manager with issues? Probably not. And all the changes workers might want unions to make are already laws today, which is why retail workers notoriously have no issues with their jobs! Finally, I like their ending rebuttal that even if Target had a union, corporate would be too greedy to accept any compromise so why bother?

The 2 people in this video are UNION actors....LOL Nicky Buggs is the girl...lol

@React2Quick

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Joyce it's so ironic

@Humphr3y_

4 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it's Nicky Buggs? It's hilarious if so target pays actor and actress for anti Union ad.

The union membership decline chart they show nicely correlates with the purchasing power of an employee over the past few decades. Interesting.

I worked for the target distribution center. Seeing a union get in there would have been so awesome

All workers problems like child labor were solved a long time ago? How about indexing minimum wage to inflation or COL? How about capping health insurance costs or providing affordable health care for everyone? How about improving safety instead of ignoring it? How about giving workers fair hearings against manager's gripes? There are an overwhelming number of growing problems that need to be solved by unions

We had a similar bullshit propaganda campaign when I worked at Michaels. I was surprised it was legal for them to wage such campaigns.

@ecoRfan

Жыл бұрын

Saw crap like this at Staples too. All the major retailers are against unions.

@ryanhoward3383

3 ай бұрын

I used to work at Michaels until last April. I remember when first getting hired, they showed me a video about that.

Wow so they admit unions did amazing shit, and they could do so much more. Unionize always, never let the employer have the power.

I love how they even admit how they are taking business from small grocery store owners. Every anti union my place of employment has shown me, I'm glad that I'm a IWW member.

4:11 Funny thing about that scenario; I used to work in a big box home improvement store in the Electrical Department. My Department Manager had told me to stock shelves after my break. On the way back from break, I was stopped by a customer in Plumbing who needed help finding something. I helped her, she bought the product she was looking for, and went away happy. It took about 3 minutes. When I got back to my department, my manager told me I was late from break. I explained that I was helping a customer in plumbing. He told me that I work in Electrical, not Plumbing, and threatened to "write me up" (whatever that means) if it happened again.

@nicm1524

7 ай бұрын

what home improvement store was this?

@joeweatlu5169

7 ай бұрын

@@nicm1524 Rather not say. But think about it...there are only a handful of Big Box home improvement stores. I enjoyed working there, just had a crummy dept. manager who thought everyone was out to screw the company. I was new at the time and the manager didn't know about my work ethic.

Working at Target sucked. Knowing you just be fired at any moment for being unable to meet unrealistic quotas was just not worth the stress. I feel sorry for the people that still work there. I work a union job now.

This video makes me wanna join a union

I don't work for Target but another company. Before the union was brought in I maybe got a 50 cent raise every few years. Since the Union came in I've had $3.00 raise in 2 years. Yeah, they charge 1.5x an hourly wage every 2 weeks. But this video has convinced me to tell the union to take a hike. I'll just go back to 8.75/hr instead of $12.35/hr. Who needs 'em. They didn't mention it here but the union also gets $500/employee from the company. I doubt they were thrilled about that. That's just my company. I don't about anywhere else.

Your team members and leaders are there to help you. Calls on the walkie for a team lift no one shows up. 😑

Never worked at Target, but have been in a retail position before, and I can safely say it is not fun helping in departments you do not work in. Often I did not have the training or experience to work in that department, customers were less than understanding when I couldn't answer their question instantly, and it was more responsibilities thrown upon me for the same pay. It is not fun having to singlehandedly run multiple departments and sometimes that is what associates are expected to do. I would vote for a union just for that alone, just as John Oliver said.

@ecoRfan

Жыл бұрын

The outro segment on his Union Busting episode is almost a direct parody of this

But what I wanna know is, did Target ever achieve their vision of being the best company ever?

This... has to be a parody video right? Right down to the unsmiling robotic corporate villain dude who chimes in to tell people why unions are bad.

Oh boy within the first minute and a half they talk about they pride themselves on their open door policy. As if I haven't heard that before in any other training video I've watched. Do these companies all follow the same script for their training videos? Or have the same people make these videos for them?

The best part is anti union video made with union actors. They should have thought this one through better.

The big lie here is that the extra profit is passed on to the workers

4:30 "If a customer outside your department asked you a question, you would be legally required to tell them to go fuck themselves. And, if they asked you a followup question, you'd have to slap them with an open hand. Everyone gets hurt, except the union."

Targets like an abusive narcissistic boyfriend they try to convince you they are not evil.

Ask Jim Rowader how much he makes compared to an average worker?

@Phil_Melone

Жыл бұрын

Exactly I just googled him n I think he's left target and working for a city now as a lawyer

Open Door Policy: They toss your ass when you ask for a raise.

“Recognize excellent performance”

4:12 - ... buh? Worked at Target for a few years and this wasn't the policy. In fact, the hypothetical "Union" policy was closer to the real policy. Workers were split between 4 divisions; Softlines (Clothing), Hardlines (Everything else), Cashier, and Specialty (Electronics, Jewelry, Customer Service). You were assigned a division/section at the start of your shift. And weren't allowed to leave the section unless the Team Lead (Manager) said so. You could tell the customer were to locate an item or assist them in your section, but needed to call a Team Lead if they needed help outside of your section. To say that associates had no say in virtually any decision is an understatement.

The only thing missing from this is flashing subliminal signs during the video. Every few seconds, the word " submit" flashes between the frames of film.

4:28 Wow! I guess Target finally unionized because this is the exact type of service I get there now

Wait, if rigid union rules mean lost business.... and unions depend on stores being successful to make profit.... wouldn't it benefit the union to make sure their rules benefit the store as much as possible? Oh no! I'm using logic! 😂

We need competition but we need to take away business away from grocery stores.

I thought this was a parody for a second

I work for the drywall union and lemme tell ya, non union we had to fight for 2 dollars, while the owners kid just got hired on as a superintendent and gets a brand new truck. Unions are the only way to make a guaranteed nice living as an employee. My union dues are 35 dollars a month but I also make 50 dollars an hour, compared to 25 dollars an hour I used to make . 1 hour a month covers my dues.. I don’t even feel it .

Thank god mark dayton took the corporate suits out back and beat them behind the woodshed. Now they start out at $13 an hour nationwide

Non union actors are unintentionally hilarious.

Delta once put up signs about how a union will cost the worker 700 a year. What they didn’t say is unions increase pay significantly and would raise wages 700 a month. So even with dues you are still profiting. 😂

Can anyone hook me up with the music that starts when it goes black and white around 4.30?

3:16 - laws are often repealed or changed because of big corporations. Organizations that protects the interests of their members is important.

This is true in Australia tbh, the problem is that some unions are businesses and some actually care.

7:01... If Bert from Sesame Street was an HR representative. 😅

So stupid....they seem to know all about the unions but don’t mention the higher pay, low cost or free health care, retirement pensions, a voice to not be treated unfairly or taken advantage of......I’ve work union, 99 UFCW & now Teamsters, way better that what a non union Target store will ever offer me

10:42 - target have high payed managers making all decisions and store policies. You literally cannot change the position of a cereal, it's decided by the people at the top, so no point in suggesting anything. But good try lol

I love it! If I train to work in more than one department, I can get more hours! The union would destroy that opportunity by making sure I get full time hours.

Don't these actors belong to a union?

7:07 I thought that was Patrick Fischler for a second lol

how old is this? I remember the one from 2011-12 ish where the dude in a flannel shirt was walking around with a clipboard telling people to join the union

@React2Quick

6 жыл бұрын

C Miller he's part of actors union which makes this video both ironic and sort hypocritical

@ecoRfan

3 жыл бұрын

Was from 2003 kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaSNlpWKc5bJqpM.html

American Unions are weird. I work in a store in Australia, and we can work in any department we want. Not to mention they're still on the closed shop system

@ryanburkes96

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not true lmao

Retail is a joke, man. I'll never do it again, but I would work at Costco

Unions do suck, but they fail to tell you the real reasons why. If they succeed in forcing the company to pay higher wages, those losses of profit will be pushed onto the customer in the form of price rises. They could even fire the staff and replace them with robots in the future.

A union can look at the paperwork if you've been incarcerated, and get you back to work! I.E. Target, Edison, new jersey- the year 2000-only missed four days of work!

The corporate rigamarole is strong in this tape. Them trying to make the anti-union message human, makes it more inhuman.

They say everyone is cross trained but I'm not trained to do register. But my team lead says I need to be registered trained. And I keep telling them that I need to be registered trained. But they keep forgetting it or putting it off. I been there for almost 2 years of not being registered trained. And the open door policy does not work if it did I would be registered trained by now because I been open with them about training me for the register but it has not been done. Imo I think it's because the team leads have more things to worry about and they keep forgetting or whatever no it is.

And of course cross training means more pay right?

Proud union 174!!! On a side note majority these retail store and fast food restaurants suck ass. Worked at target hated every bit of it. Got my CDL joined a union job. Five years later my car is paid off, own a home. Love unions!!!

No worker wants to pay dues for rights they already have. So go back to selling cheap goods at Target that were made in East Asian sweatshops where they have not yet acquired those same rights. The fact that you have to work at Target into your eighties because all of the good union-backed manufacturing jobs are gone either to automation (invested in with the surplus value they scraped from the employees they replaced) or sent overseas to the very factories producing the substandard products that you now drag across a laser scanner for $7 an hour. Until your job is replaced by a self-checkout machine, that is.

Sickening.

I just want respect. Target listed a lot of reasons to have a union, but the only reason I want a union is so I can get respect. asset protection and the security manager work as professional intimidators. They tolerate no mistakes, use vulgar language and they discipline the employees so management won’t have to do anything. Target has the most effective method ever used in history to stomp out unions. Supervisors and Human Resources staff occasionally are demoted for a day to do entry level work when things get busy, so they have lunch with the regular small employees, they basically work as spies to stomp out any talk of a union. You can’t complain about supervisors because if you turn around you may see that their joining your lunch table. Everyone keeps to themselves and they hate new people. This job was so depressing I decided I’d rather go back to working at regular grocery stores where my co workers don’t want to snitch on me for a promotion.

have these clowns gone bust yet 😂

Thanks Marc Janus!

woah this is trippy

@7:00 Jim Rowander literally looks like a Bond villain…..

This looks like it was filmed before I was born. I worked at Target for two years, this is still hilarious

The fluff with lies in the early 2000s. They don't even try that anymore. Most place going to work is like working with your worst enemies.

Time to boycott Target.

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

Problem is I’ve been “boycotting” both target and WalMart for years unless I reeeeeealllly need something.

@ervincopacapelian5384

5 жыл бұрын

Really since online I look at all department stores as boycotts. I only go out to get groceries and since I can order groceries and Uber them..... well......

I would love to tell I guest that I don’t work in this department and just keep on walking!

I made my decision at 0:25 with that hand gesture.

@mrsynical8725

9 ай бұрын

and the dodgy stats at 3:08

I wonder if these actors were SAG actors

It’s always funny to hear someone who is trying to fuck you over it say “don’t go over there to those guys. They’re gonna fuck you over.”!!…..

I remember watching this

Unions are a business like the corporation but the union also negotiates wages benefits and standard work conditions that government doesnt set out. Corporations lime this here would probably pay minimum wage and 3hr shift to not pay for breaks. Pros and cons

A union is a business which is why private sector workers should be free to join one or form their own independent or non-cross-company ones. A labor union for private sector workers is part of free enterprise. The only troubles have to do with mismanaged unions such as the ones led by corrupt executives or incompetent ones who got into power through nepotism. Also, the members need to be more active in electing better leaders.

I wonder what they are up to now.

corporations will do anything to line the pockets of their shareholders

target employees should break the mold and join a union its corporate that has ruined our way of life

This is where the woke need to focus their attention, to labor issues.

The way they call them "guests" is so cringe oh my god I'm not shopping at target just because of this video.

@ndrew_B

8 ай бұрын

That's just what they call customers at Target

Unions are bad because they value seniority (which is discrimination!!) But don't worry! Anyone can be a store manager! If you just work hard and stick at it for the next two decades... anything is possible!