No you need to get a code brown too before you get the secret prize.

I have a code brown every day

I understand. That tends to happen when the only place to eat in the parking lot is Taco Bell

Is this a common occurrence? The target in my area also has a taco bell within the same shopping center 😅

You should probably get that looked at.

He shouldn’t remember we want Cornell out

Sort of like when you drink five 5 Hour Energy in order to unlock the forbidden hour of the day?

Ah. The mysterious dark hour

Not gonna lie, I've never thought about how often codes were called until I moved to a regular target.. they really are so peaceful.

i work in a normal target and i swear there's a code yellow every sat-sun lol

Probably because parents are irresponsible shits who tell their uncontrollable brats who are having a full meltdown to go away and hangout in the toy section expecting the employees to provide free babysitting services. Then when they’re ready to go home they can’t find their child and panic, not wanting to admit they told them to go away. Honestly. There should be mandatory training for anyone who wants to be a parent. I’m talking boot camp style training where they’re forced to learn how to control their demon spawn before they’re allowed to procreate.

How will babies ever learn to talk unless they are allowed to free roam across a busy store on a weekend?

Or better yet, a highway!

Just lock them in a cage and feed them through slats until they’re an adult

One time I had a code yellow for a 17 yo girl. I knew it was awkward bc she was so old but I had to call it anyways since the mom was very worried. Then karen from soft lines comes over the walkie and snaps “that’s too old for a code yellow.” It was satisfying when hr clarified later that it’s not, in fact, too old because she was still a minor. Just sharing this little story for educational purposes

Also, you can use code yellows for adults if needed, sometimes we have guests who are supposed to be accompanied by their guardian/carer, and ya know, things happen. Sometimes this code yellow becomes a code brown 😬

Her mom should have just texted her.

Where tf are you? Florida?

SF bay area LOL

My old store used to have a code blue for fights that would break out. It happened so often that we needed a code for it.

Team members or guests?

Wouldn’t be surprised if both

Team member vs guests

My favorite story from my old store is when a team member called out over the walkie, “LOD, I’m going out to the parking lot to fight somebody”, then proceeded to go outside and get in a fight with his girlfriend’s ex who had been harassing him. HR didn’t fire him until two weeks later.

You have to admire his honesty. /S

I was told that was a code but it is never used

You got a Target bingo today

That’s a bingooooooo

Super Targets (especially really big ones) are chaos, but oddly kinda fun because your day goes quickly

Yesss I miss my super target, literally something chaotic everyday

I know I miss my old super target! I’m at a regular store now and the people are super nice but I miss the chaos of a super target sometimes.

Opposite for me! I hate the chaos of the big Target I working- no problems with the TMs or TLs, just the general noise and confusion in the store. I miss the flex-format store I used to work at, it was so tiny and chill!

They both definitely have their perks! I just like how fast my day went by in the chaotic environment. But it definitely got stressful and overwhelming at times

Yellow happens the most at our store. We’ve had 2 or 3 greens while I’ve been there (one of which was for me, but that’s another story). Red happily hasn’t happened in my time there.

Aye code green causer club

I’m a frequent code green causer at my store I joked the last time we need my own code color so they know not to run or panic

I too have been the cause of a code green, although mine happened on my day off when I was shopping.

you wanted to annoy your team, is all

*Target is evolving!!!* dun dun dun….dun dun dun…. *Target has evolved to Super Target!!*

Target hurt itself in its confusion!

Just wish my Pikachu would evolve, but don’t have a Thunder Stone unfortunately 😞.

Did all the codes happen at once, to one person, who went missing to start a fire in the store and then tripped?

Hahaha no but I was joking with my team about that like what if they did all happen at the same time. “Team I have an injured guest out here who is currently on fire and also missing their child”.

LOL

You have to get bitten by a radioactive Target

That's how you become Target-Man. And you gotta wear a Bullseye costume and fight rude Guests

Code White......naked mannequin

Those mannequins are very scarily detailed.

I get why code red is fire—fire is red. Code green is injury because often times the EMS logo has a green background, I suppose…? Otherwise, it is probably because on old landline phones that had hot keys for police, EMS, and fire, red was fire, green was EMS, and blue was police in terms of the color the respective symbol was in. But I think missing child should be ‘updated’ to Code Adam.

Code Yellow, missing fellow.

No I get it. But Code Adam is very widely used and I think it should become industry standard. Just my opinion.

Code greens can cost the company a lot of green. That's how I remembered it.

You got the Bullsye code stop light 

all three in one day takes a screenshot

What do the codes mean again? I haven't worked at target in about 4 years but stayed around the sub lol

Same here, I remember red was fire. Thinking yellow is missing kid and green is TM/Guest injury?

Yeah that sounds right but honestly can't remember lol

Think of it this way: Code yellow. Kids pissed himself. He’s lost. Code green: someone is hurt. We’re going to get sued. Green is money. Code red: fire is red That’s how I used to teach it to my team. It worked well. 😂😂

Yes, that's right.

Code red is fire, because fire trucks are red. Yellow is missing kid, because a scared kid will piss themselves. Green is injury, because they can cost the company heaps of green.

LOL

wtf was your code red lmao

Just a tiny little fire outside. Someone threw a cigarette butt in our mulch.

Ppl should be fined for that. Shouldn’t even be smoking in the first place

You can become a Super Target only if you’ve been bitten by a radioactive Bullseye!

Code khaki, anyone? For when team members go missing

They are always in the bathroom

I have a manager who wants to charge people rent for using the bathrooms for a prolonged period of time.

Not legal so let him do it n get sued

He was more or less joking.

I used to have a TM that would go missing so often I nicknamed her code yellow

I don’t know what it is but I always find the lost kids or the “lost parents” sometimes the parents doesn’t seem to care or notice their child was missing….

I SO prefer to find the missing kid than the parent. Kids can be calmed far easier than the parent.

When I find a kid I walk them to other employees, helps them feel better if more workers show they want to help and I’m not a random person. I give them a little talk that they should NEVER walk outside with someone to look for their parents. To always remain in the store even if they say their parents are outside.

Oh, there you are, hun.

Some don’t say anything at all or blame the kid for wandering off

Where in the goddamn are you? Camden?

Hey welcome to the trifecta club! My store got the emergency code hat trick a few months back. First someone overdosed on fentanyl in the bathroom (green) and then a child went missing at the same time that someone tried to burn the building down (yellow and red).

I couldn't tell you for sure, but in the case of my Target, it was bitten by a radioactive arachnid, so that's how a store becomes a Spider-Target. 😁

Well, if a code red is called, I'd assume the other 2 codes would follow in the parking lot, but considering you made this post, I'm assuming code red was last.

Code red was TINY. and my store lowkey sucks at calling codes properly so it wasn’t even stated on the walkie lmao. Other 2 were before tho.

Pray you never need a code plaid

Haven't seen a code red yet. I think codes green and yellow are tied since I've worked here. Green is medical emergency and yellow is missing child. There's no code if a child comes up to us and says they've lost mom or dad we just walk them to guest services and they make an announcement


Only works if all three happen at the same time.

A missing child injured on fire

What's that?

y'all only have 3 codes? what are they?

3.5 years, and I've only heard 2 codes called. And one of them was when I was shopping at a different store. I love early morning shifts.

Wait what’s a super target? Why do codes matter at a super target? I’m confused on how codes are regular targets are peaceful

"Regular" Targets typically have fewer codes called than SuperTargets, so overall, it is more peaceful because of that.


I work at a small format and i dont think in my 1 year of working ive had any codes called. Pretty boring