Recent content by FlowTeamChick

Okay, so this is going to sound awful. My store has one GM TM out on a medical leave and another who will be in the next few weeks. The TL who oversees truck push doesn't plan to bring on anyone new, just shift some of us around and extend short shifts to a little longer. The awful-sounding part...

This strikes me as one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" things. I always try to do a liability pull right after I set a transition POG - figure it's good to free up back room space, get the product out on the sales floor and let it sell down. Definitely not all things sell down (like...

Just heard something new about how clearance is going to be handled at my store. Instead of having Clearance on a nearby end cap and getting it out of the back, anything that doesn't fit in the home location (like just before transitions) will be left in the back room and salvaged from the back...

My store has a new SD and I've noticed that we don't seem to be using those called off hours as much. Used to be that TLs were allowed to over-schedule, with the idea that there are always call-offs so it balanced out and sometimes still didn't use all the allotted hours. Not anymore. Which...

My store is much smaller, but yesterday's truck made me think this again. Just one example: got 9 cans of a foot care product, didn't really need any at all. But I happened to notice that it's made overseas and it made me think that Target has been hauling in everything they can that already...

The only time I can remember anything positive resulting from the survey was years ago when we had an HR ETL who brought in an intern she knew from their college days. The intern was awful - "too good" to push truck for example. There was a lot of negative feedback that year. This was when we...

Haven't done the survey yet. Was the question about store leadership (some do at my store, but I don't think the new SD does except for how it reflects on them) or corporate leadership (yeah, right).

We have a back end cap between Personal Care and Paper that's been clearance for forever at my store. Chems, OTC, Personal Care, and Paper all use it and it's almost always pretty full. Guests know to check it out. I have a back end cap in OTC that never has a sales planner for it, so I use it...

What @Rarejem said. Just today asked my TL about the schedule just posted because one truck day has really short hours. Thought it was just me because I didn't take time to look for other TMs who push truck, but it's about half of us. Was told that hours for May are really tight.

Unless their shift starts first thing, our Fulfillment TMs announce when they're on the floor: "Hey, this is (name), I'm here for the day." Usually, their TL will ask them to hop into OPU or SFS, maybe packing. If not, they'll ask where they should start.

Thanks for the explanation - I never watched South Park, so had no clue.

No, but it says something if the meeting takes place. Not sure what it says, but something.

Same here. Got 5% again this year. Plus, I just like knowing that I'm doing the best job I can with the hours I get.

How does reducing automation lead to lower head count? Seems like it would take more hands to do the work the machine isn't? (Can you tell I don't work at a DC? But I am curious.)

On the DEI question, anyone think that the organizations that are starting to stand up to Trump's bullying might turn the tide? Harvard kind of kicked it off, but other universities are joining in, some even after their boards caved but faculty, alumni, and students are making their fury about...