Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

Midoninger said:
we get 180~200hrs a week, and its never enough. between call outs or the flow TL thinking he can take the market TMs for their needs, which then has audacity to get mad when theyre caught doing that .... its hard to get what we have to get done done. on and LODs with their own agendas too ...



get ready as now youll do POG, Instocks, Backroom, and Flow! all for the same rate of pay! but only for what pertains to market ... at first it seems well. it works ... but then they slash hours and then look confused when shit isnt done.



he's speaking the truth you know!



oh they wont DARE do anything to me! they know! im called megatron for a reason! remember "bad PA"? that piece of trash? yeah! i showed them, why you dont mess with me! each time bad PA was gone, in the most brand leader pleasing fashion, i change things in pFresh to piss of bad PA. it was the best way to get to them. remerch, CULL, you know, THEIR job but done better than they. YES. and i *MADE* sure they KNEW it was me who had pissed excellence all over that pfresh dept. they tweeted that shit! it burned bad PA so hard! muhahahahaha!

so NO, my desk is secure.
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I get told regular I'm mean and people don't want to work with me because of it. They still stole pens off the desk, eat muy candy and leave the drawers open after searching through them. And it's not my ap. Been thinking of ordering a spare set of keys since the tls don't have any left to lock drawers with.
 
signingminion said:
I get told regular I'm mean and people don't want to work with me because of it. They still stole pens off the desk, eat muy candy and leave the drawers open after searching through them. And it's not my ap. Been thinking of ordering a spare set of keys since the tls don't have any left to lock drawers with.
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signingminion said:
I get told regular I'm mean and people don't want to work with me because of it. They still stole pens off the desk, eat muy candy and leave the drawers open after searching through them. And it's not my ap. Been thinking of ordering a spare set of keys since the tls don't have any left to lock drawers with.
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Same. I'm mean, difficult to work with, independent(not a team player) and never answer my walkie.

Uh hello, I'm schedule alone in my dept everyday with routine pa tasks on top of receiving a truck daily and then get questioned when I don't come clean. Meanwhile the stl is funneling all of our hours into the backroom to capacity fill. Only problem is our store stopped doing revisions in July 16' so the capacity fills are for ghost locations and 70% of what's pulled comes back. So dumb
 
Produceprincess said:
Same. I'm mean, difficult to work with, independent(not a team player) and never answer my walkie.

Uh hello, I'm schedule alone in my dept everyday with routine pa tasks on top of receiving a truck daily and then get questioned when I don't come clean. Meanwhile the stl is funneling all of our hours into the backroom to capacity fill. Only problem is our store stopped doing revisions in July 16' so the capacity fills are for ghost locations and 70% of what's pulled comes back. So dumb
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They say mean they mean assertive. If you don't jump, click your heels as say yes you have a bad attitude, lol.
 
haha yeah im "mean" too! or as the team puts it ... a savage.

so at todays huddle they announced me as the FA and my TL as the food TL
then .... omg!
POG TL is now BR/instocks TL
GSTL is now POG
softlines TL is now ALL of SFTL
hired new GSTL (sucker!)
something about VMA TL as i spaced ...

so i go up to GSTL now POG TL, "how happy are you?" they replied "you cant even imagine! :D"

today was also first day that FTL was back in market. i think they got overwhelmed, but they openly said they need to improve as pulling our own batches, and doing our own push. but i felt they spend too much time on zoning, granted our endcaps looked shitty AF so it wasnt a bad thing just ... what FTL doesnt know is how ETL LOG and Flow TL like to be in our business when it comes to our push and backstock. theyll learn soon enough! back when they did market they could spend 1~2 hours culling and stuff. now? you better have that done in 45min!
 
Forgot to bring it home, but I got a packet on the Market Team rollout thing. R100 is rolling out sometime mid April, and we're going to try to get ahead of it by changing some routines and doing training with those that we want to take over to the team as we have hours.

Looks like it's going to be fun.
 
yeah at first its good ... but you know spot ... oh! the amount of hours im giving you is enough to complete the task at hand! so as a result, were going to cut your team in half and slash your hours by 75% and then seem clueless as to why you cant accomplish your goals.

after we walked market, and i expressed everything i did last week and into this week, remerching, CLEANING, updating the cool labels, couponing, talking to the vendors about shit, the ETL SF told my FTL they were glad they listened to the FTL, as they were impressed that i actually got shit done. a lot of shit too. but now im off 2 days in a row s its all going back to pot :p
 
I just found a new sign for my avacodos tho the price should be lower.

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qmosqueen said:
I just found a new sign for my avacodos tho the price should be lower.

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Speaking of the ugly fruit... we're we allowed to pitch that shipper that looks like a guac bowl? My ctl put that piece of garbage in my fixture room...
 
so what is the deal with the Food TL thing? they also moved someone else who is on the TL bench who has never worked in Market over to Market and apparently they are now a PA? I don't really understand what the deal is.
 
My Food TL started on Monday. I was told that I would be his Food Assistant with the other PA's being demoted due to our organization chart. He seems to want to show his authority by starting to coach me on things that he feels immediately need addressing. He has never worked in a grocery department before. It is also annoying, that he told me, I need to respond to my wakie and back up more even though, I have a C&S delivery to finish by myself.
 
Sounds like a lot of wrongs things are happening other PAs being demoted that's not going to go over well they will just quit

Respond on the walkie that you have a temperature sensitive pull on the floor and it will be 15 minutes before you can get to the check lanes so can someone else go up.
 
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My team is struggling. We got a few more hours on the new schedules, but I am a little worried to see what kind of hours we'll get (plus how many more people) when the roll out officially happens. I'm hoping my HR will actually let me change my schedule to something that makes sense so I can actually see my team, meet with vendors, and work in market without being pulled away all the time.

Sometimes it feels like I'm fighting a losing battle and no matter how hard I try it doesn't matter. I hate letting my team down and not being able to get all the puzzle pieces together to make things work with what we have (even though I know it's really not possible with what they want/what they give us). I really hate leaving work at the end of the day feeling like I let people down and like I can't do my job properly. Sorry, had to vent somewhere with people who actually understand market because no other leadership at my store does. :(
 
indigo25 said:
My team is struggling. We got a few more hours on the new schedules, but I am a little worried to see what kind of hours we'll get (plus how many more people) when the roll out officially happens. I'm hoping my HR will actually let me change my schedule to something that makes sense so I can actually see my team, meet with vendors, and work in market without being pulled away all the time.

Sometimes it feels like I'm fighting a losing battle and no matter how hard I try it doesn't matter. I hate letting my team down and not being able to get all the puzzle pieces together to make things work with what we have (even though I know it's really not possible with what they want/what they give us). I really hate leaving work at the end of the day feeling like I let people down and like I can't do my job properly. Sorry, had to vent somewhere with people who actually understand market because no other leadership at my store does. :(
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You know you're not letting anyone down. Target is letting you and everyone else down. Don't let that dampen your personal life or even your work life -- do what you can do, the best way you can and be done.
 
Does anyone know the order number for the 7x11 holders for the bunkers? Plano changed my bunker and threw them away :(
 
Our receiver mentioned a couple weeks ago about McLane (the vendor who delivers our candy) would be switching over to the GM truck, anyone else hear this?
 
SrTLall said:
Our receiver mentioned a couple weeks ago about McLane (the vendor who delivers our candy) would be switching over to the GM truck, anyone else hear this?
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I also heard that, but no details or timeline.
 
SrTLall said:
Our receiver mentioned a couple weeks ago about McLane (the vendor who delivers our candy) would be switching over to the GM truck, anyone else hear this?
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yes its been that way for about 2 weeks now. The overnight flow has to push candy. Some days it gets done and other it sits for 3 days.
 

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