Employee calls out Target for shutting off air conditioner on hot days to save money

The heatwaves are affecting many regions of the world and as a result, a lot of individuals are facing health concerns. While fans and air conditioners give us temporary solace from the heat, some unfortunate Target employees are not getting these privileges either. Easton (@www.easton.com on TikTok), who is a young Target employee, shared a single picture slide with the community that made a loud and clear plea.

“Target please stop doing AC energy conservations during the hottest times of the day before someone passes out,” he wrote in the text overlay of the video as he stood in the background with his work uniform on. He further wrote in the comments, replying to fellow TikTok users, that "they turn off the air conditioner for saving money and at the same time to make employees and customers suffer." "So it’s 'guests first' until it comes down to something like paying for AC so our team members and guests can have a good shopping experience," Easton added in yet another comment.

Other service and retail industry workers popped in the comment section to share their tales of misery with the community as well. @oddgirlout18 wrote, "I work at McDonald’s. The kitchen has been 79 degrees almost 80 degrees what makes it worse is I have diabetes the heat affects me differently than someone without diabetes." @ohjasmindarling presented a scenario, "Picking batches at 6 AM with 40% AC or unloading a truck with no AC in the musty backroom."

Easton responded to it and wrote, "Exactly! It’s actually going to become dangerous at one point! I am delivering drive-ups when it’s hot outside and I come inside to the heat. It’s okay to dim the lights but not the AC." @imsofedup shared, "Hey so this is actually from your energy utility. EC (energy company) tells Target if you can save a certain amount of kilowatts. Like we'll give you a few thousand dollars and they do it." But Easton argued that it's still not right since Target is doing this during the hottest times of the day while the workers are constantly going in and out of the sun.

Turns out, it's not just Target that has been paying little to no attention to the well-being of their workers. In another instance, a woman named Savannah Dunn (@savvdunn on TikTok) shared a video on the platform to point out how pathetic her work condition was during the winters in America. Dunn and one of her co-workers had to tread through slippery snow to reach their workplace because they were not allowed to take a leave during the snowstorm. The 18-year-old who worked as a server, had to show up at the restaurant despite battling their way through a blizzard and the frozen landscape.

"Our hike into work because we aren't allowed to call in to save our lives," the text overlay on Dunn's video read. The duo were filmed climbing up a ramp as the stairs next to it were covered in ice and could've been slippery. With a little bit of exaggerated stomping, Dunn called their walk to the workplace a "hike" to emphasize how hard it was to go out while it was heavily snowing. "The restaurant could've survived with one server the whole night," Dunn pointed out in the caption. The video gained over 2.6 million views.