Target is/was pretty bad about this. As of ~2007 daytime backroom staff had to pick n items within a 2 hour window, every 2 hours, 3-4 times per shift. There'd

Target is/was pretty bad about this. As of ~2007 daytime backroom staff had to pick n items within a 2 hour window, every 2 hours, 3-4 times per shift. There'd be ad hoc forklift requests for toilet paper or patio furniture from the rafters which interrupted scheduled work, but in general it was doable by the 1 person they'd schedule back there. If you got done early, you were supposed to backstock items that didn't fit on the sales floor. Cutting every corner and being uninterrupted one person could do 2.5 hours of projected work in 1.75 (and have 15 minutes to spare). At some point after 2007 they changed it to a series of 1-hour batches. In addition to ad hoc requests you also had to wait for a manager to let you into the electronics cage, the pharmacy cage, and the overflow shipping containers out back during summer/winter-- every hour. The time targets were physically impossible to keep up with since you now had to cover the same amount of ground twice as often. Pissing in bottles wouldn't even have helped; there was plenty of time to use an actual toilet while waiting on keyholders to show up. So where once employees were afforded leeway to manage enough time to get a task done, corporate shortened the window arbitrarily (which also generated additional backstock every hour instead of every 2), ran everyone ragged and made it impossible to meet goals, ever. Seeing that my chances of getting merit raises beyond that point were tanked, I fucked off. Insidious indeed.