Archived New Paygrades

[HRZone]

Both. Who do you think backs up the GSA/GSTL positions? Who do you think runs the SD, usually alone, and has to multi-task many different jobs up front? Who do you think is often the person to solve a guest problem?

I hate to say it but if guest service is minimum wage now you can bet it's not going to be a specialty position.

 

[HRZone]

Pleaese tell me this is a joke. Absolutely no one in my store has a clue about receiving process

The sarcasm italics didn't give that away?

 

[PM2NO]

The sarcasm italics didn't give that away?

I was about to say. I know Spot be crazy sometimes but that would be a whole new level of crazy.

 

[Frontlanegirl]

I hate to say it but if guest service is minimum wage now you can bet it's not going to be a specialty position.

You are probably correct.

 

[Backroom88]

I was about to say. I know Spot be crazy sometimes but that would be a whole new level of crazy.

It honestly wouldnt surprise me

 

[Redzee]

They had BETTER be specialty or the next time we have a call-out I'll be asking the LOD who they're pulling from the floor/lanes to cover since we're not considered 'specialty'.
Do they really want cafe food prepared by TMs without food safety training?

Because what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Corrin]

They had BETTER be specialty or the next time we have a call-out I'll be asking the LOD who they're pulling from the floor/lanes to cover since we're not considered 'specialty'.
Do they really want cafe food prepared by TMs without food safety training?

I can't say how many times I've come back from my breaks to find they've sent an untrained TM over there to cover me. Literal hot mess.

 

[HardlinesGuy]

Regardless of what happens, APTM's are still not paid enough for the shit we're putting up with. *grumble*

Genuinely intrested to see how this develops, though!

 

[Hazza43]

Cash office was speciality at one point... let's hope

 

[TargetLounger]

I don't really understand how experience pay works but I conversed a little about it during my offer process. These new pay grades are interesting!

 

[Times Up]

I can't say how many times I've come back from my breaks to find they've sent an untrained TM over there to cover me. Literal hot mess.

Especially when they would send over someone like me. I could serve a coffee or a pastry, anything else, come back in 15.

 

[Cooliobum]

Don't you mean GSA? I doubt GSTM would be considered specialty now if it wasn't before.

GSTM was a small pay bump, but, at least in California, a lot of the small pay bumps speciality positions (GS, SFS, Flow, Food Ave) went away.

 

[Frontlanegirl]

GSTM was a small pay bump, but, at least in California, a lot of the small pay bumps speciality positions (GS, SFS, Flow, Food Ave) went away.

No small pay bumps for us at GS.

 

[signingminion]

No small pay bumps for us at GS.

I don't believe we do either, just the promise of more regular shifts and more hours.

 

[glo]

Yeah, I don't think Guest Service Team Member is on any different paygrade.

 

[SFSFun]

When I was the Receiving Specialist or TM as its now called, the defective process was listed in Best Practice for a number of years that the Flow team was actually responsible for processing defectives and then sorting it to the appropriate place but have yet to see it being implemented in the stores I've been in and I tried to call it out during my time but my TL was a hard ass that it was just better to do it myself. I'm out of that area now and in a different store. Our poor Receiving guy has to work freight on the floor plus clean up his area and he hardly ever gets to defectives, its usually scattered throughout Receiving. I think stores that have been Receivers now might have it grandfathered in but will likely be phased out as our Receiver still works over there but he doesn't work all his 40 hours over there. My question on that process is who would be responsible for sweep, donations, CRC, and making sure ESIM is being implemented properly?

Pleaese tell me this is a joke. Absolutely no one in my store has a clue about receiving process

Yeah I was definitely kidding. There are a million and one things the receiver is supposed to know and they are responsible for the daily deliveries of thousands of dollars in merch. Target may be dumb, but not THAT dumb.

 

[balthrop]

Yeah I was definitely kidding. There are a million and one things the receiver is supposed to know and they are responsible for the daily deliveries of thousands of dollars in merch. Target may be dumb, but not THAT dumb.

challenge accepted.

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emphasis added for an attempt at humor

 

[PM2NO]

Yeah I was definitely kidding. There are a million and one things the receiver is supposed to know and they are responsible for the daily deliveries of thousands of dollars in merch. Target may be dumb, but not THAT dumb.

That was a good one though. Though I see some stores that demand more of their Receivers to work the truck in addition to what they do. Hours may shrink in time but I don’t think it would ever be truly eliminated

 

[Kompa]

SFS captain had better be a specialist position. Unless Target wants a brand new employee to order supplies, troubleshoot broken equipment, be the go-to person when anything goes wrong, train new TMs, (and ETLs from other stores), draw brackets on what time TMs should work during Christmas, switch out pallets with the forklift, organize the supplies in the area, etc...

Nope. The BRTL should be doing all that

 

[Kompa]

Also where does Backroom even fall into this? I know everyone is supposed to their own shit but e2e has been a failures

What do pre brtm get scheduled as now

 

[BoxCutter]

challenge accepted

We all know this would be a crazy thing to implement in stores, but, when has that ever stopped corporate?

 

[RhettB]

This may just be their way of telling tenured TMs that they are not capped out and are just out of luck with the new pay schedule. I get that they need to up the ante to hire people, but giving the middle finger to those dedicated ones is just wrong.

 

[RhettB]

We can barely get the teams in each area to do their own signing as technically that is E2E too.

With usually only one TM in hardlines, it's a struggle to get salesplans, PTM/MPG/D-Code, and clearance done, all while taking an hour out of their time to cover Electronics meals, another hour to cover Beauty, plus their own meals. That's 3 hours right there not in their area. Let's throw signing onto the bonfire while we are at it.

 

[IcePeasant]

With usually only one TM in hardlines, it's a struggle to get salesplans, PTM/MPG/D-Code, and clearance done, all while taking an hour out of their time to cover Electronics meals, another hour to cover Beauty, plus their own meals. That's 3 hours right there not in their area. Let's throw signing onto the bonfire while we are at it.

We never cover beauty here.
*call box goes off* “Beauty is on lunch can someone grab that?” *radio silence*

 

[graffiti]

I wonder what the difference between Entry and Specialty pay will be. I mean, it's already long past time for me to leave Spot but if I hear that those idiots at my store that I watch spend after closing throwing shoes at each other for 15 minutes and then "not having time to finish the zone" are getting $3 more an hour than I get unloading, pushing, backstocking, zoning, scanning, and helping guests in my area....

And I feel like not letting the entry level plebs pick up "specialty" shifts is just gonna result in a lot of unfilled shifts from swap requests/call-outs, too. They took great effort in getting their TMs crosstrained across the store, and now they won't allow that experience to be put to use even though -- lbr -- the responsibilities of the job haven't changed at all.

All of this recent pay news just seems geared toward pushing out veteran workers, which is dumb when it just means they'll just end up paying more for untrained labor.