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This is going to be a novel. Sorry but I'm using this to get it all out of my system.
Basically, last Friday was my last day after 5 1/2 years. I start my new job Monday. I already miss Spot.
Five and a half years ago I got hired as an instocks and backroom TM for a brand new store not even through with planorama yet. Over time I became close to just about everyone from TM to STL and the store was essentially a family. Most of the leadership looked out for us and they were the epitome of what a leader should be. I constantly took opportunities to support other workcenters, to learn as much as I could, and to take advantage of all the options available to me although I happily wanted to remain at a TM (and eventually captain) level. Over the years the leadership rotated and there were good ones, bad ones, just like anywhere else. When RFID rolled out my team lead owned the process with me as their captain.. I loved RFID. When other stores got the process they sent their teams and leadership to be trained by my TL and myself. My STL at the time would get phonecalls from other STLs looking for help with their cycle scans and would hand the call off to me to walk them through it. I took a lot of pride in my work and my leadership made me feel appreciated. I left RFID behind when they requested that my focus be entirely on our new SFS team. We had a great core fulfillment team with an amazing team lead, high pack and guest experience standards, and solid workload that increased moreso once we became a Target Restock store. I've never cared more about a job and as Flex captain I put everything I had into helping my TL run things smoothly.
That team lead left the company for a better opportunity.. a team lead with twelve years of experience and knowledge. Then our ETL Log left, and our STL left. We went through a few leadership changes and ended up with a TL without fulfillment or log experience and an ETL who had been with the company for roughly a year. Best practice dropped. Pick and pack standards, guest experience, etc. It all went down the drain. The store was a mess on every level, including lost equipment and keys. Our new fulfillment/gm tl couldn't keep their gm blocks under control without using the fulfillment team for that workload instead. Mysteriously our workload got decimated around that same time. Nothing but Target Restock, which wouldn't have been taken away as the only store in the area still participating in it.
Then the manipulative TL started to make comments. Soon enough they found problems with me and I became public enemy #1... leads huddled up in the TLO shooting me dirty looks. I was on the verge of tears constantly but felt there was nothing I could do but keep quiet. Until another team member, who was also keeping it to themselves, let slip to me that they were having problems too. I went to HR and called it a toxic work environment. From comments they made about the team, to the day that I spent my meal break hysterically crying in my car (and had to go home early because I couldn't stop shaking after). One day, after I snapped to another ETL, my TL pulled me into an office. I'm already nauseous because just their voice on the walkie was a trigger to me at that point. I requested another TL be in there with us, so of course mine twisted their story and lied about things they had previously said. Maybe an hour later, TL calls me back into an office.. this time with HR. Twists the story some more, says that I just can't handle change, etc. As they're sitting next to me lying and I am in tears again, I tell HR I want to be moved out of the department. That doesn't happen, so I just agree to whatever they're saying so that I can leave the office. Nothing is going to change. Over time I found out about more team members who were having problems. I know how the hotline works and nothing would change in my store. This toxicity surrounded me for months.
I've watched my store fall apart over the last year. I can't be there anymore, but at the same time it's heartbreaking. I almost couldn't bring myself to press that last End Work button. Over the last week I've disconnected from Target's workday server to connect to my new one. I've changed the work address on my gps to the new one. And all these stupid little things just upset me all over again. I genuinely love that store and I honestly never really intended on leaving anytime soon, despite viper or modernization or whatever it would have shown up as in the end.
I worry about the team I left behind with them.
Basically, last Friday was my last day after 5 1/2 years. I start my new job Monday. I already miss Spot.
Five and a half years ago I got hired as an instocks and backroom TM for a brand new store not even through with planorama yet. Over time I became close to just about everyone from TM to STL and the store was essentially a family. Most of the leadership looked out for us and they were the epitome of what a leader should be. I constantly took opportunities to support other workcenters, to learn as much as I could, and to take advantage of all the options available to me although I happily wanted to remain at a TM (and eventually captain) level. Over the years the leadership rotated and there were good ones, bad ones, just like anywhere else. When RFID rolled out my team lead owned the process with me as their captain.. I loved RFID. When other stores got the process they sent their teams and leadership to be trained by my TL and myself. My STL at the time would get phonecalls from other STLs looking for help with their cycle scans and would hand the call off to me to walk them through it. I took a lot of pride in my work and my leadership made me feel appreciated. I left RFID behind when they requested that my focus be entirely on our new SFS team. We had a great core fulfillment team with an amazing team lead, high pack and guest experience standards, and solid workload that increased moreso once we became a Target Restock store. I've never cared more about a job and as Flex captain I put everything I had into helping my TL run things smoothly.
That team lead left the company for a better opportunity.. a team lead with twelve years of experience and knowledge. Then our ETL Log left, and our STL left. We went through a few leadership changes and ended up with a TL without fulfillment or log experience and an ETL who had been with the company for roughly a year. Best practice dropped. Pick and pack standards, guest experience, etc. It all went down the drain. The store was a mess on every level, including lost equipment and keys. Our new fulfillment/gm tl couldn't keep their gm blocks under control without using the fulfillment team for that workload instead. Mysteriously our workload got decimated around that same time. Nothing but Target Restock, which wouldn't have been taken away as the only store in the area still participating in it.
Then the manipulative TL started to make comments. Soon enough they found problems with me and I became public enemy #1... leads huddled up in the TLO shooting me dirty looks. I was on the verge of tears constantly but felt there was nothing I could do but keep quiet. Until another team member, who was also keeping it to themselves, let slip to me that they were having problems too. I went to HR and called it a toxic work environment. From comments they made about the team, to the day that I spent my meal break hysterically crying in my car (and had to go home early because I couldn't stop shaking after). One day, after I snapped to another ETL, my TL pulled me into an office. I'm already nauseous because just their voice on the walkie was a trigger to me at that point. I requested another TL be in there with us, so of course mine twisted their story and lied about things they had previously said. Maybe an hour later, TL calls me back into an office.. this time with HR. Twists the story some more, says that I just can't handle change, etc. As they're sitting next to me lying and I am in tears again, I tell HR I want to be moved out of the department. That doesn't happen, so I just agree to whatever they're saying so that I can leave the office. Nothing is going to change. Over time I found out about more team members who were having problems. I know how the hotline works and nothing would change in my store. This toxicity surrounded me for months.
I've watched my store fall apart over the last year. I can't be there anymore, but at the same time it's heartbreaking. I almost couldn't bring myself to press that last End Work button. Over the last week I've disconnected from Target's workday server to connect to my new one. I've changed the work address on my gps to the new one. And all these stupid little things just upset me all over again. I genuinely love that store and I honestly never really intended on leaving anytime soon, despite viper or modernization or whatever it would have shown up as in the end.
I worry about the team I left behind with them.
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although I'm so nervous I feel sick.
