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Here is the best thread.
http://www.thebreakroom.org/showthread.php/380
http://www.thebreakroom.org/showthread.php/380
I also wanted to ask if anyone knows if the research batches are timed?
Im also told baffles arent really your fault. they are caused by the other team member before you but than you get blamed!
Must be nice. We can't even get pulls done. My Target isn't 24hr, and they only schedule 1 person in backroom in evenings. They just now put me as mid-backroom and we still barely get everything pulled, pushed and backstocked if at all. Date checks, L&P, manual audits, what are those. We have to climb through our cooler and freezer most of the time just to pull one or two items(no really, crawl over tubs and carts, otherwise it takes 15 minutes to pull everything out to get to a couple pulls). And no, I've been working backroom for about 4 years. Management completely replaced. Nothing changes. What needs changed? More workers, more time to get work done. Will that ever happen? Nope. Stock has gotta go up, right? Where else to get it from other than the engine that feeds it.I'm curious how other backroom tm's workload and daily schedule compare to mine! Does anyone want to share a typical day?
I go in at 5am
help with autofills (when team is not overnights)
tie POGS for that day of the week that TL's or whoever have planned on a list my TL gives me every monday for that week workload
drop a batch, pull them, label them and stage them in designated spots
then I work on the location audit and the date audit
on monday I print and put up the MPG labels
on tuesday I do the merge report and help TL pulls the MIRs
If there is a sweep, I help with that
on wednesday I fix/audit/maintain our ever messed up bike wall (my TL helps because for some reason its always awful)
on thursday I work on "My" backroom asiles (aLL tm's are assigned some) week one of month i do date checks, week two detail report, week three empty locs, week four of month I pull dcode... not always in that order i guess
I also help with any backstock from the truck, do constant clean up, moving trash, picking up after flow, sweep, make a bail whatever needs done in the mornings.... i do it.
As the morning goes on I pull outs and research as they drop into the gun, thoes random autofill in meat, dairy ect that drop in around 7:30 and pull the 11, 12 and 1 caf pulls
With recieving being short handed, I help out where i can there, especially when our TM goes to lunch. I am not fully trained and there never seems to be time for me to learn everything back there! Our goofball ETL's are always dropping EXF batches and then call back to me in a urgent manner... i pull the stuff, let them know and then it sits untouched all day..... why they won't let instocks do their job is beyond me.....
home at 1:30
Im tired!! Sometimes I feel like we have other BR TM who get paid the same as me and do squat spot!! ..... oh and I have broken arm right now.... so i'm doing the best i can, but I can't help be a little disappointed that some of the backroom team can't step up and be a little faster or care just a little to help me out..... but no, they know i'll do it, so they take all the sweet time they like to pull batches and let me be the top puller while i'm injured.... which is pretty sad..... whatever, i do like my job and I like knowing I rock my little stockroom. I would never want to go back to salesfloor!
So Anyone having trouble every now and then, getting pulls done within the hours during this crazy holiday season? I know this is a big no no, but there was a lapse in coverage for an hour (aka I was the only one doing the 1 o'clocks), and I called for back up twice, and no one answered (yeah I answer your guests requests, but when I need help, I get nothing). So needless to say some batches bled over, which hurts our scores (that I think amount to a hill of beans). The only thing makes me bust my butt on the pulls is not getting chewed out by my ETL-LOG.
Im also told baffles arent really your fault. they are caused by the other team member before you but than you get blamed!
My store's pretty similar, although our new BRTL is actually doing a pretty good job lately. I refused to pull a freezer batch once because of how many vehicles were in there.They just now put me as mid-backroom and we still barely get everything pulled, pushed and backstocked if at all. Date checks, L&P, manual audits, what are those. We have to climb through our cooler and freezer most of the time just to pull one or two items(no really, crawl over tubs and carts, otherwise it takes 15 minutes to pull everything out to get to a couple pulls).
Same, they actually threw someone back there that works. But he has to run around like its the Olympics to get anything done. The first time they moved me to backroom evenings, they would just jampack the freezer, no one cared to make it better, and there were many ways to do so, but they basically did everything they could to screw it up, so I refused to pull. Coached. Things got worse. Moved back to mornings, someone else replaced me. That person just climbed over the stuff and burned pulls. He can get it done, what was my problem. He quits because it's bs(not just the freezer, that's only a small piece of the pie), so they put me back there again. I should have said no, but I needed the hours. Backroom TL did everything they could to throw me under the bus for things that weren't my fault. I requested to be moved. Worked plano and hardlines a bit, then they needed me for midbackroom. I just can't say no, call me a sadist. Though things go way smoother with a mid, and I can get most things done now, things are still screwed up, and it's still too much being holiday season. Things get backed up because there aren't enough people. There should NEVER be only one person in the backroom, at ANY time. It's not even safe... but I couldn't even win with that argument. I just get punished when I open my mouth, so I learned to just take it in the rear and hope for the best.My store's pretty similar, although our new BRTL is actually doing a pretty good job lately. I refused to pull a freezer batch once because of how many vehicles were in there.
Yeah, we've had electronics crap sitting in two carts like all week that I've been trying to push out when I can afford the time, and it's futile. I'll get a couple games pushed within an hour, the rest is spent being dragged around the floor like a ragdoll. Should just quit target and offer to be personal shopping helper. Who knows, with the tips I'd maybe be able to afford to heat my house in the winter. One would think that would be included in the whole "cost of living" thing. It's cool I got this, I'll just sleep in the rafters and hug my pipes to keep them from freezing at night.During the rest of the year, our store only has 2 BR TM's (usually one 11-7, the other 12-5:30). But during 4th quarter, we have 4-5 BR Day TM's. And pulls STILL can't get completed...all thanks to P-Fresh and Seasonal!
Actually, I wish they could make cooler/freezer strictly manCAFs and have someone pull them at the end of the night. Mixing cooler/freezer with other pulls just slows things down a lot, and you have to get it out immediately, so it kind of interferes with the push process pretty often.
I usually do that if I can, but a lot of times there's no room at all for any extra carts to leave in there. If it's one or two things, I'll try taking it with me. If it's too much, I'll try leaving it on top of something where I'll [hopefully] remember to grab it later. Dunno, it's just dumb imo, it should just pull all at once. Chances are, anything freezer/cooler isn't time sensitive pulls. Most of the time it's just pushing one thing in a location that holds several of the item.At my store, SFTMs push the CAFs, and they leave all the cooler/freezer stuff in there until after the last CAFs are pulled, so they don't have to drag the cart out so many times.
Other things that are ridiculous imo, for example, is when it wants you to pull one pack of gum every hour for the checklanes. Checklanes should have their own stockroom. They only push it to half the registers and then dump it on the backroom and it takes 2 hours to backstock it all. Then, once it's backstocked, CAFs have us pull it all back out again because OOPS it should have all gone out. Same for dollarspot/buckspot/chineseslavelabourproducts, should be a separate stockroom and maintained by front end. I hate to impose upon them something that will cut into their talk-time, but I don't appreciate having to work more just so they can have enough time to complain about being bored when there are lulls.
I feel like sharing something, even though I probably shouldn't. But maybe someone out there would feel my pain.
Granted, my freezer doesn't always look like that, but way more often than it ever should. When it's like that, I have only a couple minutes(as in like 2) to pull everything, so there's no time to pull everything out. So that means climbing over everything. Gets interesting when you have to pull from a bin below tub level. I'd like to add TL's added a "Why We Work Safe" billboard in the breakroom where they want you to post pictures of your family or such. Backroom is excluded from it, but it's okay, we're used to being excluded from most things. Like the whole "team" thing.
The cooler generally always looks like this, actually it's usually worse tbh. However decided to have the entrance to the freezer at the back of the cooler needs to be locked in there for a few hours.
That is INSANE!!!! Your TL should definitely assign one person to backstock cooler and freezer until everything goes smooth again. Leaving everything runs the risk of reordering, which for the food trucks would be terrible. Also why are the dates written with a marker? Print Barcodes section has "UPC plus Date".
Lol the picture even shows that the UPC's they're printing have the dates on them. Sooo why the extra work of manually writing it? We used to write the expiration date on the packages but that practice became extinct.
Or know how to use printer. Train that guy, please!I guess someone didn't trust the printer. 😀
On the STO/SUBT subject anyone who says SUBT9999 has no place in the backroom has clearly never pulled CAF batches before.