u/nightowlhooha

I’m a 27 year old female and I still struggle with consistent acne. I’ve struggled with acne my entire life, it used to be really bad cystic acne starting from the time I was 11 and lasted all the way up until I was 18. I still struggle with acne regularly now, but I don’t get cystic acne as bad as I used to although it still does happen from time to time. I didn’t have health insurance for a really long time so I’ve never seen a dermatologist about it. Aside from the acne, I also have a ton of acne scars and huge pore spots from when my cystic acne was at its worst when I was younger. I want a good skincare routine, not only to keep my acne at bay, but something that will also maybe give anti-aging benefits.

For context, I have oily skin that will also occasionally get dry but for the most part, I struggle with oil. I constantly find myself having to dab my face throughout the day with tissue paper because my skin gets so oily that it constantly looks like I’m sweating. I heard witch hazel is good for decreasing oil but haven’t researched reviews on it yet so I have yet to try it.

My current skincare routine:
I wash my face every morning and night with the orange Neutrogena face wash
Cleanse with toner (The one I’m using right now is the Dr. Perricone intensive pore minimizer)
Moisturize. (The moisturizer I’ve been using is the COSRX Hyaluronic Acid intensive cream but I go back and forth between that and the Cetaphil moisturizing cream)

I’ve heard La Roche Posay is extremely popular and loved, but I haven’t researched whether or not it would be a good fit for my skin. I’m willing to spend a little extra money on pricier face washes or moisturizer if they work really well. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I’m one of the style TL’s (there’s 2 style TL’s at my store. Myself and another girl who my ETL is trying to get rid of because she doesn’t do anything except zone and walk around all day) Our store is extremely short-staffed at the moment, so I’ve been spread extremely thin and help out everywhere and do literally everything. We no longer have a specialty sales TL so I do all job duties of the specialty TL AND my actual jobs duties on top of that (style TL) with that being said, one of the big issues we have right now is we have nobody to do style prices changes every week, (we usually get about 3,000 of them that drop every week) so me and my ETL do it because we have nobody else but because me and my ETL are both so busy doing a million other things, other leaders also have to help out with price changes if they see it’s still not done by the end of the week.

This last Saturday, I came into work and price change was only at 65%. I ended up doing price changes my entire shift but it was EXTREMELY busy in the store (it was literally the day before mother’s day) so I kept having to stop to help guests (bc we’re so short staffed) so by the time my shift was over, price change was at 96%. not completely finished, but totally manageable for one of the closing leaders to finish. The other style TL was the closing lead that night, and she had 3 other leaders closing with her. I let the other leaders know that price change needed to be wrapped up by someone else that night because I was leaving for the day.

Yesterday when I came into work, the other style TL pulled me aside and literally told me that I’m not a good leader because I didn’t “figure out a way to finish price changes.” I told her I did what I could and I asked for help from the other leaders when I left. She told me I should’ve stayed late to finish it…I told her I couldn’t. She then proceeds to say that price change never got finished and we got dinged for it bc they were never done, so now our SD is gonna be mad. I asked her why she or another leader didn’t finish them and she said “I didn’t know they weren’t done” she was literally the closing lead and didn’t check?? Odd. Then she tells me that because of ME, our SD is gonna yell at HER since she was the closing lead lol.

I told her as a closing lead, she should have checked to make sure it was done. She knows price change in our store right now is a whole team effort bc we are short staffed. Every other closing leader makes sure they’re done before Sunday but because she was too lazy to check, it’s on me. She went on for another 10 minutes about how I’m not a good leader and as a leader I should be “figuring shit out” (mind you, the night she was closing lead, pulls were only at 40% by the end of the night. she also failed to check up on that)

I genuinely don’t think I was in the wrong. I busted my ass on Saturday and left for the day with price change in a decent spot for someone else to finish AND I let the leaders know that I was unable to stay late to finish it. I genuinely just think that because she forgot to check it before the end of the night, she took it out on me because now she’s gonna get in trouble for not following up with pulls and price change.

I’m not even trying to be sarcastic or rude. Every single time I see an ETL, they’re literally just walking around the sales floor aimlessly with their phone in their hand or sitting in their office (except for my current direct ETL) this new ETL just transferred to our store about a month ago and I have never had so much support from an ETL as I do with him. This man works HARD and is never seen sitting on his ass.

Aside from him though, every other ETL I’ve ever worked with has just either sat at their desk all day or walked around the sales floor in circles trying to look busy and I genuinely have no idea what they do all day and am so curious as to what their job duties actually are. If their only job is to make schedules and walk around all day to make sure things are running smoothly, that sounds like a pretty good gig to me..Especially because most of the time they don’t even do a full 8 hour shift. They’ll do a 8-2:30 or 9-4 and call it a day. Idk how much ETL’s make but I’m sure whatever it is, it’s well worth it 😭

I’m a young woman in my 20s with chronic pain and kratom literally saved me when no doctor wanted to help me. I had a spinal fusion surgery which left me with 2 rods and 23 screws in my back. 10 years after surgery, I now suffer from a bulging disc in my back, degenerative disc disease, arthritis, and sciatica. I’ve been to loads of doctors who don’t want to help me or prescribe anything because “I’m too young to start medication.” so I’ve lived every day in misery until I discovered kratom.

It doesn’t completely eliminate the pain, but it makes it manageable enough to the point where I can work my full-time retail job where I’m on my feet for 8+ hours straight, 40 hours a week. I’ve been hearing about the kratom bans across the US and every day I pray to GOD that my state doesn’t start considering it. (I don’t think they will, but who knows)

I’m so tired of opening tiktok or any social media and seeing people call kratom users junkies and every other name under the sun. I’m truly so tired of it. Because I guarantee I’d get called the same thing if I was getting prescribed opiates for the pain. God forbid chronic pain patients want to have quality of life and live pain-free. God forbid I don’t want to spend the best years of my life lying in bed and crying. There wasn’t a huge point to the post, just wanted to vent and am glad I found this sub 🫶🏻

i’ve only been with the company for a year, got promoted to team lead within 8 months of being hired so i’m still trying to adjust to certain things but the main thing is my potty mouth that I’m REALLYYYY trying to fix now that I’m a leader 😭

I was a team lead at my previous job and there was no “rules” to the culture, in fact the culture was so good because everyone was just chill even though it was an extremely fast-paced/stressful environment.

I said damn one time the other day and literally thought I was gonna go to jail. target is strictttttt with it!! (maybe it’s just my store) but it’s definitely been quite the adjustment. (i’m also from philly so it’s in my blood to curse even in extremely happy/exciting situations) i’m really really really trying my best but still feeling like a failure 🙂

I didn’t hate it when we actually had staff. i’m the style TL and we used to have a pretty nice team. we had a total of like 20 TM’s in style. we’re literally down to 5 people total now, and they have very limited availability. nobody that applies wants to work in style. they run when the idea is presented to them (the style department at my store isn’t even bad. I think they just fear it’ll be too much work)

i’m just juggling too much at once. it’s literally just me and my ETL against the world rn 😭 we’re trying our best but on days he isn’t here, i’m drowning. we have 14 palettes of repacks in the basement and 4 palettes of case packs. I’m constantly getting called for fulfillment INF’s, to unlock fitting rooms, etc bc we literally have nobody

I loved this job the first 2 months of being in it. i’m about 4 months in and i’m slowly starting to hate it and it’s taking a toll on me mentally. oh and we also lost our VM too (she got fired) so im also doing VM work and trying to maintain visual standards while also doing my job. we’re literally just short staffed everywhere and we have the hours to hire people, the problem is just that nobody is really applying and when they do, they have EXTREMELY limited availability.

that’s just my vent post of the day. hope yall are having a fantastic day 🫶🏻

I’ve been on and off methylprednisolone steroid packs for the last year due to chronic pain. I have degenerative disc disease, a bulging disc, and sciatica. Occasionally I’ll get really bad flare-ups and the only thing that helps (other than opiates which are literally almost impossible to get prescribed anymore) are the steroid packs. I’ve tried muscle relaxers and everything else under the sun. The only 2 things that take even the slightest edge off are opiates or steroids.

Since no doctor in my area will prescribe opiates unless your head is hanging off your shoulders and you’re bleeding out, I just ask for steroid packs for every flare-up now…Until the pharmacists started having an issue with it.

Any time I get prescribed a steroid pack now, a lot of the time the pharmacists won’t want to fill it because long term steroid use is bad and blah blah blah. I tell my doctors this and their response is usually something like “they’re not your doctor, I am.” and then they have to call and fight with the pharmacist to fill it. I eventually end up getting it filled, but I am just so tired of the dirty looks and judgement from the pharmacists. I’m over it.

I read a bunch of reviews for TelyRX and a lot of people on reddit say it’s legit. I see that they offer the same steroid packs that I use on their website and am thinking about ordering it. Is there anything I need to know or be cautious about?

I’m a 27 year old female and randomly developed chronic pain when I turned 26. Ever since then, I have been severely depressed every single day of my life because I have limitations on what I can do, gained 35 pounds, and can’t engage in any of the activities I used to.

For context, I found out I had scoliosis when I was 12. It was too advanced for a back brace to cure so I had to get a full spinal fusion surgery when I was 13. I was fully recovered in a year and all was good. I never had any pain after I fully recovered from the surgery. I literally had no complications and continued to live my life as normal for the next 13 years.

Fast forward to when I turned 26. I was at work one day at my retail job, dropped a roll of tape, bent over to pick it up and was met with the most excruciating radiating pain from my lower back all the way down into my leg. It was unlike anything I ever felt before and I spent the rest of my day limping around, thinking I probably just pulled a muscle. I went home, iced it, and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, I started screaming from pain as soon as I opened my eyes. I couldn’t talk, walk, or even move a muscle without seeing stars and nearly passing out.

My boyfriend had to stay with me to take care of me because I literally could not move. This episode lasted 5 days before I could walk again. By the third day, I could no longer handle the pain anymore. I went to the hospital, they fully examined me, and ultimately diagnosed me with sciatica and sent me home. I figured this was a one and done kind of situation. Perhaps I moved the wrong way and just tweaked something in my back. Boy was I wrong!

After that flare-up went away by the 5th day, I was back to normal. No pain and I could walk again. This convinced me even more that I just tweaked something by accident and was totally fine. I was normal again for about 7 months until it happened again but this time I didn’t have a warning. I didn’t bend, lift, or do anything that could have caused this next flare-up. I literally went to bed one night and woke up paralyzed again with the same radiating pain in my lower left back down my leg except this time my entire foot was numb. This episode lasted 7 days. Same situation. Couldn’t walk, screaming in pain all day, nearly fainting from how bad it was. I go to the ER again.

They examine me, do x-rays and collect notes on my symptoms. Was told it was sciatica again and sent home. The flare-up was gone after 7 days, however, I wasn’t fully back to normal after this one. In fact, I’m in in debilitating pain every single day since that last flare-up happened. It never fully went away, it just calmed down a bit and allowed me to be able to walk again but I’m still in tears daily. About a month after that flare-up, I decided to make an appointment with a specialist, an orthopedic surgeon.

He diagnosed me with a bulging disc in my back (which is causing the sciatica flare-ups) degenerative disc disease, and early signs of arthritis. I explained to him that i’m in DEBILITATING pain every single day of my life and don’t know what to do. He said the only treatment for the conditions I have would be physical therapy and if that doesn’t work then I’d have to get into pain management.

I did 6 weeks of physical therapy and it didn’t help. At all. So my only option now is pain management. However, the specialist told me that most pain management clinics prefer to try other methods such as shots before they prescribe medication. I told him I’m not comfortable getting any needle put into my back because of the 2 rods and 23 screws in my spine. (The surgeon who did my spinal fusion said he wouldn’t recommend doing shots of any kind in the back.) i’m afraid if I go to a pain management doctor and tell them this, they’re gonna label me as drug-seeking and not want to help me.

Furthermore, I’m afraid my age is going to be a huge issue when it comes to prescribing medicine for pain relief. Whenever I’d see a doctor for my pain, I’d always get told “you’re young so i’m hesitant to prescribe medication” I had 2 different ER doctors tell me that as I was vomitting, screaming, and crying in pain unable to speak. I’ve heard horror stories from people in pain management being called junkies and accused of horrible things by doctors that they went to for help. Pain management as a whole is just a very scary situation for me.

I also don’t even know how to go about getting into pain management. Do I need a referral or do I just call up and tell them the situation and give them my files from the specialist who diagnosed me? Sorry if this post was all over the place. I get so anxious and stressed every time I have to think about all of this. Thanks for listening to my rant if you’re still here ❤️

I’m a 27 year old female and randomly developed chronic pain when I turned 26. Ever since then, I have been severely depressed every single day of my life because I have limitations on what I can do, gained 35 pounds, and can’t engage in any of the activities I used to.

For context, I found out I had scoliosis when I was 12. It was too advanced for a back brace to cure so I had to get a full spinal fusion surgery when I was 13. I was fully recovered in a year and all was good. I never had any pain after I fully recovered from the surgery. I literally had no complications and continued to live my life as normal for the next 13 years.

Fast forward to when I turned 26. I was at work one day at my retail job, dropped a roll of tape, bent over to pick it up and was met with the most excruciating radiating pain from my lower back all the way down into my leg. It was unlike anything I ever felt before and I spent the rest of my day limping around, thinking I probably just pulled a muscle. I went home, iced it, and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, I started screaming from pain as soon as I opened my eyes. I couldn’t talk, walk, or even move a muscle without seeing stars and nearly passing out.

My boyfriend had to stay with me to take care of me because I literally could not move. This episode lasted 5 days before I could walk again. By the third day, I could no longer handle the pain anymore. I went to the hospital, they fully examined me, and ultimately diagnosed me with sciatica and sent me home. I figured this was a one and done kind of situation. Perhaps I moved the wrong way and just tweaked something in my back. Boy was I wrong!

After that flare-up went away by the 5th day, I was back to normal. No pain and I could walk again. This convinced me even more that I just tweaked something by accident and was totally fine. I was normal again for about 7 months until it happened again but this time I didn’t have a warning. I didn’t bend, lift, or do anything that could have caused this next flare-up. I literally went to bed one night and woke up paralyzed again with the same radiating pain in my lower left back down my leg except this time my entire foot was numb. This episode lasted 7 days. Same situation. Couldn’t walk, screaming in pain all day, nearly fainting from how bad it was. I go to the ER again.

They examine me, do x-rays and collect notes on my symptoms. Was told it was sciatica again and sent home. The flare-up was gone after 7 days, however, I wasn’t fully back to normal after this one. In fact, I’m in in debilitating pain every single day since that last flare-up happened. It never fully went away, it just calmed down a bit and allowed me to be able to walk again but I’m still in tears daily. About a month after that flare-up, I decided to make an appointment with a specialist, an orthopedic surgeon.

He diagnosed me with a bulging disc in my back (which is causing the sciatica flare-ups) degenerative disc disease, and early signs of arthritis. I explained to him that i’m in DEBILITATING pain every single day of my life and don’t know what to do. He said the only treatment for the conditions I have would be physical therapy and if that doesn’t work then I’d have to get into pain management.

I did 6 weeks of physical therapy and it didn’t help. At all. So my only option now is pain management. However, the specialist told me that most pain management clinics prefer to try other methods such as shots before they prescribe medication. I told him I’m not comfortable getting any needle put into my back because of the 2 rods and 23 screws in my spine. (The surgeon who did my spinal fusion said he wouldn’t recommend doing shots of any kind in the back.) i’m afraid if I go to a pain management doctor and tell them this, they’re gonna label me as drug-seeking and not want to help me.

Furthermore, I’m afraid my age is going to be a huge issue when it comes to prescribing medicine for pain relief. Whenever I’d see a doctor for my pain, I’d always get told “you’re young so i’m hesitant to prescribe medication” I had 2 different ER doctors tell me that as I was vomitting, screaming, and crying in pain unable to speak. I’ve heard horror stories from people in pain management being called junkies and accused of horrible things by doctors that they went to for help. Pain management as a whole is just a very scary situation for me.

I also don’t even know how to go about getting into pain management. Do I need a referral or do I just call up and tell them the situation and give them my files from the specialist who diagnosed me? Sorry if this post was all over the place. I get so anxious and stressed every time I have to think about all of this. Thanks for listening to my rant if you’re still here ❤️

This is gonna be a looooong rant and I apologize but PLEASEEEE let me know if any of y’all are trying to fix a dysfunctional ass store like me bc this shit is not for the weak.

I’m the specialty sales TL and we have 2 style TL’s. One works mornings, one works nights. However, our morning style TL resigned a couple of weeks ago with no notice so I’ve been juggling being the specialty TL and filling in as the style TL. As of right now, I am currently doing all responsibilities of both a style TL and specialty TL until we get this all sorted out. We recently got a brand new ETL who I absolutely love. From day 1 of him arriving at our store 2 months ago, he has made COUNTLESS positive changes to the team and the store and is always SO supportive to his leaders and is always working hands-on to help. He recently suggested changing my role permanently to style TL because he think I would be the best fit for that position and then he would find someone else to move into specialty TL. All good, no big deal to me because I was a style TM before I was promoted so I know the processes and what work needs to be done.

So now that I’m filling in as the style TL and will eventually shift over to that role permanently, I’ve been spending most of my time in style and my biggest issue is with the closing style TL. I get NO help from her. Our old SD who ended up getting fired 2 years ago is the one that promoted her. Nobody knows how she even got a promotion and every other leader in the building also has a problem with her because she does no work and is BEYOND lazy. The old SD literally made up this position to coordinate with her limited availability to promote her. No other store in my district has a “closing style TL lead” position.

Her only responsibility is to zone. That is literally it. She receives team lead pay to do regular TM work and zone from 3-11. She has 0 leadership responsibility. All of the actual work falls on me and the leaders that work during the day such as truck, style pogs/sets, inventory audits, out of stocks, etc. Theres been a couple of times I’ve asked her to set a few pogs that I wasn’t able to get to during the day but then when I come in the next morning they’re not done. When I ask why she wasn’t able to do them I get the same answer every time. “The zone was really really bad, I had to help the team zone all night because it was just so bad” sureeeee..

My closing weekday is Wednesday, so every Wednesday night when we close together, I’m running around like a maniac helping guests and making sure that everything in style is up to par before the end of the night. Meanwhile, she will be hiding out in the office for 4+ hours on the computer. I think she forgets that I’m also a team lead and know for a fact that there’s NO REASON you need to be spending 4+ hours on the computer every day. Her lazy ass hides out in that office ALLLL NIGHT. The team doesn’t even go to her for questions or help anymore because she’s never around. The team literally only calls for me on walkie when they need a leader and fulfillment also only comes to me for style INF’s because she’s always nowhere to be found so people just stopped trying to reach her.

She DESTROYS the style stockroom every night when I’m not there. There’s been several times that I came in at 8 AM and spent hours auditing/cleaning my stockroom. By the time my shift is over at 4 PM, the stockroom would be IMMACULATE. Literally pristine. When I come back the next morning, it’s a disaster and I have to clean it all over again. Full 3 tiers of random apparel all over the place, boxes all over the floor that are just FULL of salvage apparel that she packs up but never actually takes to the salvage area, drinks/food everywhere, etc. I got so fed up with it that I started taking pictures of the clean stockroom at the end of my shift every single day and then a picture of how it looks when I come in the morning after she closes so I can have documentation for my ETL.

My new ETL actually clocked this whole situation right away within 2 weeks of being at our store. He came to me and flat out asked what responsibilities she has because he’s never heard of a “closing style TL” and I was honest and told him that none of the TL duties fall on her. He asked what she typically does during a shift and I said she zones and does price change sometimes. That’s it. A few weeks later, we found out that corporate is starting to make some stores eliminate certain TL positions that are unnecessary in our district. Guess which one is getting put on the chopping block at our store? You guessed it!

Our new DM told our SD that the position is entirely made up and not only is it not a real position, it also isn’t fair. No other TL is allowed to have such limited availability (such as only being able to open or close) The DM agrees that our store still needs 2 style team leads, however, they both have to be able to work mornings AND nights (just like every other leader.) that way all of the responsibility isn’t only falling on one person.

My ETL went to the closing style TL about this and ultimately let her know that her position was being eliminated and he’s gonna have to shift her to a different TL role in the building so essentially, she would be swapping roles with another TL. She goes to a different department as TL and whoever the existing TL is of that department would be shifted into the second style TL position alongside me and then they would either promote someone into specialty or transfer someone from another store to take it.

She was NOT happy. At all. She said she can’t work mornings because she has another job that she signed a contract with and can’t resign or change her availability for another year (first I’m ever hearing about this.) My ETL told her if she wants to remain a TL she has to give us SOMETHING more than strictly closing shifts, perhaps a couple of mid shifts like 10-6, 11-7, or 12-8. She said she doesn’t wanna move to another department and my ETL told her remaining as a style TL isn’t an option for her anymore. The conversation ended with her basically saying she’ll think about it and let him know.

Ever since my ETL had that conversation with her, her energy towards me shifted entirely. When she comes in at 3 to start her shift, Im usually on my way out the door not too long after so I always meet up with her before I leave to chat about what went on during the day, what tasks got done, what needs to be worked on, etc just so she stays in the loop on our workload. Yesterday when I tried to do that she completely ignored me and didn’t say a word and then complained about me to our HR ETL because she’s “tired of me not making assignment sheets for the closing style team” bitch you are LITERALLY the closing style TL why the hell would I make an assignment sheet when you’re gonna be here all night with them??? are you also incapable of delegating tasks??? be so fr.

anyway that’s my rant and all the BS that’s going on in my store. thanks for listening 🫶🏻

I’m a team lead and have been using the time between now and July 1 to start preparing my team for the new dress code requirements so they can start getting used to the idea of it. My SD told all of the leaders that if someone chooses to shows up out of dress code on July 1 after they were given months to prepare for this, we need to have a documented conversation and send them home immediately so I’m really trying my best to ensure my team is prepared.

I’ve been reading through this sub and think it’s interesting that different stores are kind of making their own rules following this new policy. I saw a couple posts from leaders saying vests are no longer allowed at their store starting July 1 but my SD just ordered a bunch of vests yesterday so our team won’t have to spend more money buying a bunch of Target red shirts. Also saw people saying red flannels are no longer allowed at their store but my SD said red flannels are still acceptable. Now I’m curious, is your store banning vests and flannels come July 1?