Skip this if you don't want deal with yet another Break Room rant.
I'm sure most of you have better ways to start your weekend.
To start with I'd like to question the sanity of the person who decided to have the garden/patio set and the vacuum cleaner wall reset in the same week.
I don't know about you folks but it didn't help that along with building a ten new vacuums they decided to flip the entire frelling wall.
So at the beginning of the week I had a sit down with the STL and in a calm, practical manner explained how the cuts in my hours was making it impossible to do my job.
I clearly laid out what my concerns were and she responded so much better than I could have hoped for, by promising to give me the hours I needed to do the work and even increased my hours this week.
I was amazed and pretty damned impressed.
Than the other shoe dropped.
Today I was threatened.
Told that if my workload was not accomplished each and every week, now that I had the hours (and it doesn't matter that there is quite a bit of stuff left over from the weeks they weren't giving me the time), I would be written up.
Except for the weeks after the hurricane when I was building stuff in the frelling dark I have always kept up my workload.
This is payback pure and simple.
Maybe I should have expected it, should have known that by asking to be treated like a grownup I would be kicked in the teeth but I have to admit it hurt.
I have always given 100% and have always done the best possible work.
Caring about your work and not just throwing drek at the wall to see what sticks isn't valued.
I'm just going to keep at it and prove them wrong but they have killed any respect I ever had for them.
/end rant
Thanks for listening.
I used to really care about the signing. Then, my PTL got moved. Then, the new PTL walked out. Then, my STL leaves. My new PTL is a nice guy but totally clueless. So, I give about 75% every day. Some days I work harder, like on the sun in rear, others not so much. I did get all the race outriggers put up. Target is really changing for the worse. Much worse. I wouldn't be surprised to see our store close within two years. Sigh ...
I hear you and Commie on this. Are you sure you don't work at my store, Buckwill? Frankly, I feel like the two of you more and more I read your posts on this board.
Commie, I'm so sorry they are treating you like this.
Start this now. Print out the signing adjacency hours as far back as you can and keep printing up every Monday. Keep this, just in case they do attempt to write you up. Having all your paperwork in hand should help.
Another thing. Building vacuums is built into the planogram persons hours, not yours. Nice to do it for them if we get ahead, but it is their job.
Dang, I HATE it when I hear of someone who obviously cares about their job being pushed around like this.
I was told that that was the job of the signing person, not the plano team. All the signing hours that I receive are part of the plano set (the transition planning tools), so therefore, I should do every. single. bit. of signing for the aisles. That includes displays. I said, what about the signing that's in the monthly signing update? Not to mention, breaking down/checking in/sorting/delivering the signing and supply pallets. Doing PPA Follow-ups and orders. Cleaning the fixture room. Ordering supplies. Fixing stuff because plano is too lazy to figure out how to do it (some days I wonder otherwise). Smart Huddles. Daily Walks and Audits of the store. And whatever other little projects they give me. If they want me to do all of that, they better give me 40 hours a week, plus an assistant.
I pride myself on working hard, getting the job done accurately, and quickly, and nothing I do is ever good enough for them. It sucks going from your old TL (who got pushed out) thinking you're a top performer (repeatedly) (along with the other TLs that also got pushed out/fired), to having new TLs/ETLs who think you are drek, want to change everything you do.
Am I the only signing person that feels like stepping down/transferring/quitting for another job? Somebody, please tell me it's better at a different store!
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