we have on PA who does this all the time at my store. like i get it guest first, i was hardlines before, but market is totally different from hardlines. he will go up there anytime they call and it's like dude no you have shit on the floor.I RARELY GO UP.for those reasons. But other TM's will go willy nilly when they have a huge vehicle and spend half their shift up there.
i think that's where our problem is. we are a non-stop store. even on non c&s days we're constantly busy with our GM truck. the past couple of days have been pretty chill and slow but it's picking up again to where we cannot back up. our TL has actually mentioned to us that it's fine if we dont respond we have other priorities now, but the ETL-GE is always kind of on our ass as well as our TLs in hardlines. it's whatever, we do as we're told.
Images from a new flex format. Its really rather nice looking. Of course how outta stocked will make or break it....
They look nice when set up & full but look terrible when poorly stocked.
its pull autofills
Beauty blowout?
It is a flex format store. Installed into an old grocery store shell. Space wise its a full pfresh, it's just more on the tables for produce than traditional footage allows for. Frozen, dairy, etc is about the same. Dry grocery is smaller as are every other department. We can't tell if they have a seasonal section, although they must... right?
You first lost me when you said "hired on pregnant women". Working at Target will never be a walk in the park. Trust me, I'm 55 years old and receive a literal TON of food daily. I work pallet jacks, the Wave and manage to work till exhaustion every day. But, here is the thing. That is my job. My body aches, but until I find something better- understand that this is what my job duties entail. Your STL, ETL's and LOD's are given instructions to make things happen. This is Corporate Retail. If it's too rough, move on. Try Amazon.... sorry for being honest and candid.
On Sunday, my opener called out. I came in at noon and no one had touched P Fresh. Since I had loads of outs, I had to push my fast movers. Got called out the next day by my ETL for not spending the time scanning the table and changing the chalkboards.
I know my feelings are negative and misdirected and I'm working on it. My main problem is that my TL is unable to plan for these women's absences and it makes me angry. What I mean to do is to call out my TL for (unintentionally, I hope) sabotaging our department. When both women have an overlap in their LOA, she needs to make sure that HR knows that we still need to hire another person. Then there's the fact that NOT ONE ETL knows how to work the slicers. I refuse to be essentially on-call and I refuse to stay late every time they need me to because they can't be bothered to scrape up the training hours (which do exist! I've seen them used properly!) to cross-train even one TM in all the Deli tasks for closing.
Pregnant people, young kids with no work ethic, older people without the ability to lift 40lbs or move fast... she's not meaning to single them out. But when we hire people who aren't able to do the job and with planned loa that will effectively leave the work center empty its enough to make you scream and run for the degreaser. I've got several we let hang on and they make me nuts every time I have to compensate.
