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I've worked at Target for 10-plus years. I've seen a lot of good people come and go, also experienced many idiotic corporate Kool-Aid, practices, buzzwords, and so on, throughout the years.
When I first started I can honestly say, that management as far as a big box store retailers goes, it was probably one of the best around. Over the years with new "Target strategies" in place, slowly eroded any experience and common sense right out the door.
Let's fast forward to now! 99% of newer TL's and ETL's are now NEW hires, no previous experience with the company! Also for some insane reason, this is also some of there first jobs! In the past 4 years, my store has hired several ETL's that this would be there first job ever!
This creates a revolving door of new management constantly coming and going. As a TM, is almost impossible to create a rapport or regiment with any management. With the ever-evolving rules and guidelines of "modernization" have amplified all these problems tenfold!
With the guidelines of modernization, after 3 years which has never really been fully explain to anyone. My understanding is for management to have a completely hands-off approach when it comes to freight /plano/ you name it, delegating it ALL to DBO's! In a lot of cases it's only one or two people a shift responsible freight,pulls/ backstock, go backs, revisions, price change, reset, guest assistance, e pick, register backup, xcetera.
All with reduced time frame and hours to do so, and a detached by a unexperienced leadership that isn't even trained in half the things that most team members are trained in on day one! This is one of the big things that are extremely irritating anymore. Constantly shrinking the pool of team members and their hours, meanwhile consistently making new management positions eating up valuable hours available to the store!
On any given day I would say that management out numbers TM's 3 to 1. That is nuts, how much payroll are they wasting on management!? On a daily basis I witness a gaggle of TL's huddled around a U-boat on the line, slowly moving down to each one, discussing how long it should take to work said vehicle. Writing names and times on laminated signs plastered on each boat, spending about 5 to 10 minutes on each boat on the line. Only to do this ritual several times, with each iteration the goal times getting more and more ridiculous.
So, what's Target's strategy here? Sure there's still a very small amount I'm good managers out there that seem to get piled on with all the work. But in general all I see is basically almost zero workload/ responsibility, experienced from someone in a leadership position, with no knowledge how Target used to do things, and for that fact how jobs work in general.
So you're left with a bunch of inexperienced Napoleon's who march around in groups of 3 or more! It's there first job, so they follow the Target propaganda to a T, having no basis time frames on workload, because they have never done any of the work themselves! And consistently hiring new people with no Target experience, for more and more new management positions. Soon in the near future there will only be 4 team members per store, with 20 TL'S & 4 ETL's delegated to each team member lol.
Anyone else feeling this?
When I first started I can honestly say, that management as far as a big box store retailers goes, it was probably one of the best around. Over the years with new "Target strategies" in place, slowly eroded any experience and common sense right out the door.
Let's fast forward to now! 99% of newer TL's and ETL's are now NEW hires, no previous experience with the company! Also for some insane reason, this is also some of there first jobs! In the past 4 years, my store has hired several ETL's that this would be there first job ever!
This creates a revolving door of new management constantly coming and going. As a TM, is almost impossible to create a rapport or regiment with any management. With the ever-evolving rules and guidelines of "modernization" have amplified all these problems tenfold!
With the guidelines of modernization, after 3 years which has never really been fully explain to anyone. My understanding is for management to have a completely hands-off approach when it comes to freight /plano/ you name it, delegating it ALL to DBO's! In a lot of cases it's only one or two people a shift responsible freight,pulls/ backstock, go backs, revisions, price change, reset, guest assistance, e pick, register backup, xcetera.
All with reduced time frame and hours to do so, and a detached by a unexperienced leadership that isn't even trained in half the things that most team members are trained in on day one! This is one of the big things that are extremely irritating anymore. Constantly shrinking the pool of team members and their hours, meanwhile consistently making new management positions eating up valuable hours available to the store!
On any given day I would say that management out numbers TM's 3 to 1. That is nuts, how much payroll are they wasting on management!? On a daily basis I witness a gaggle of TL's huddled around a U-boat on the line, slowly moving down to each one, discussing how long it should take to work said vehicle. Writing names and times on laminated signs plastered on each boat, spending about 5 to 10 minutes on each boat on the line. Only to do this ritual several times, with each iteration the goal times getting more and more ridiculous.
So, what's Target's strategy here? Sure there's still a very small amount I'm good managers out there that seem to get piled on with all the work. But in general all I see is basically almost zero workload/ responsibility, experienced from someone in a leadership position, with no knowledge how Target used to do things, and for that fact how jobs work in general.
So you're left with a bunch of inexperienced Napoleon's who march around in groups of 3 or more! It's there first job, so they follow the Target propaganda to a T, having no basis time frames on workload, because they have never done any of the work themselves! And consistently hiring new people with no Target experience, for more and more new management positions. Soon in the near future there will only be 4 team members per store, with 20 TL'S & 4 ETL's delegated to each team member lol.
Anyone else feeling this?
