Change in the Assignments Duties

       Whatsoever, the time was running and couple of weeks after, I was assigned by the management of the store to work in fitting rooms. In this new area, I had to perform duties such as  clean the floor, the desk, metal rack and to move the clothes and to hang them, as well as I was responsible as operator to receive the customer calls and transfer them through the different departments. The worst part of this was that the Target’s Management in the store never provided me any safety conditions to work during my pregnancy. I worked several hours without a chair, I was picking up from the floor the mess of the clothes, in the fitting rooms and they pushed me to keep everything clean including the floor and under the counter desk. Honestly, I was suffering because I had problems during my high risk pregnancy to stay stand up for over one hour because the pain killed my lower back, my legs, my calves were destroyed, and I felt dizzy a lot of times. The Department Manager really enjoyed it, and the Store Management always knew about this situation, but they never showed any interest to stop the situation. After this harsh environment in my workplace, I requested to one of my coworkers to give me a small barstool located closer to the fitting rooms. I used it to sit there and rest in short periods, but every day I was gaining weight and my baby was growing too.

The ETL Softlines every time when she walked around of Softlines Department and the Fitting Rooms, she approached watches me and knobbing her head and your face showed angry expressions and hate against me because I sat on the barstool. Also, as any pregnant woman…we need to drink water…maybe more than anyone. In fact, I remembered on several times when I bought a bottle of water due to the thirsty killed me every day, I used to hide my water under the counter where anyone cannot see that, but the Manager just waited the precise moment when I was attended a customer or when I took my 15 minutes break time, to take my bottle of water and dumped to the trash can. Why she did it? I never understand it, but I used to buy another bottle of water to keep me hydrated for my baby.