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Apr. 24th, 2012 02:58 pm Today at work they announced a new policy they were enacting. Since I'm one of the Target employees whose shift begins outside of regular store hours, I get a shift differential bonus for coming into work at dark thirty in the morning. That bonus applied to all of the hours I worked, but starting in a few weeks that won't be case.
At the end of the month, the shift differential will only apply to hours before the store opens. But since this will adversely affect my take home pay, they adjusted my base pay, giving me a twenty seven cent raise to make up the difference. Plus this was just a few days after I got the annual review, so in the end I will be getting sixty three cents more an hour. I will still be getting the shift differential for the early morning hours, this just makes up the difference for the hours after store opening I'll lose that bonus. Of course during the holiday period when we work overnights it will make for some very nice paychecks.
So why the hell are they doing this? Mostly this is a cost saving measure for new hires who won't be getting these perks for being here so long. And this is the second time I've seen them adjust the shift differential for the flow team. Though last time they just cut it back by fifty cents, but gave everyone a 50 cent increase to make up the difference.
At the end of the month, the shift differential will only apply to hours before the store opens. But since this will adversely affect my take home pay, they adjusted my base pay, giving me a twenty seven cent raise to make up the difference. Plus this was just a few days after I got the annual review, so in the end I will be getting sixty three cents more an hour. I will still be getting the shift differential for the early morning hours, this just makes up the difference for the hours after store opening I'll lose that bonus. Of course during the holiday period when we work overnights it will make for some very nice paychecks.
So why the hell are they doing this? Mostly this is a cost saving measure for new hires who won't be getting these perks for being here so long. And this is the second time I've seen them adjust the shift differential for the flow team. Though last time they just cut it back by fifty cents, but gave everyone a 50 cent increase to make up the difference.
