To that one Team Member I - ARCHIVED

[oath2order]

To my two trainers today, thanks so much for showing me the ropes and being easy to communicate with. Can't wait to complete my remaining days of training.

Watching someone get caught 'concealing' and being arrested was also an awesome experience.

I'M HARDLINES AND I LIVE FOR THIS STUFF OMG. I love watching apprehensions it's literally the best part of my night to see some crap go down it's so fun.

To the ETL-4AM: GOOD RIDDANCE. You used to be a great guy when you were ETL-Hardlines and everybody calling you a frat boy was initially a joke but you really are one. You throw little temper tantrums and kick boxes in the backroom, let the flow team get away with SO much shit that they aren't supposed to do, the whole drama that I mentioned in the dating thread, and basically you suck good riddance.

 

[InvisibleGirl]

TTOTM -- I'm sorry you're getting the short end of the stick when it comes to being trained. I felt my own training left much to be desired and I hoped that I could at least help you a little more. I feel bad because the GSTL is already hounding you and it was your first hour. I hope we have a few slow moments tomorrow so I can help you a little more. :/

 

[Owl]

To That One LOD: I know it's childish, but I honestly loved making you walk all the way from the backroom to clean up a tiny little blob of soap on the ground. I could tell you were pissed that I didn't just wipe it up, but you couldn't say anything since you were such a bitch that time I started cleaning up laundry detergent (there is a way to remind people of the rules without making them feel stupid, btw). Immensely satisfying.

 

[sher]

To that new tm with the full time day job, stop fucking complaining and telling us how you could never do the tasks we do for as long as we have. We've already reached a point where the actual work doesn't even bother us (we only complain about our lazy tl who has poor time management skills, the etl hr dude who used to make our schedule, the company, the robot who makes our schedules) and you bring our morale down when you talk about how you don't even need this job. If that's the case, quit so someone more positive can come in. Shit!

I swear I'm 98% more positive in the real world than I am here. I don't really worry about work or anything (my motto = "if they wanted it done well, we'd have more hours and more people"), but it took shrinks and meds to get me to this place lol, and I don't want a neg nancy bringing me down even if it is for a mere few hours. I'm fine having the few micro negative encounters with "guests" on a daily basis.

To the robot who makes the schedule, really? Really!? I have to work til the last possible hour I'm available every night?? And I have to work from 1:30 - 10 ON THE 4TH? IN AMERICA?? I can't even stop by a cookout for a burger!! I'm pissed. I know the robot knew I would've surely surely called out over a 4 hour shift, though, so good job on predicting that, robot. Before this job, I didn't even know retail establishments were open all day on such a staple grill, beach, firework holiday. Makes no sense. Wonder if Target Canada is open for Canada Day..

 

[mrknownothing]

Also, for anyone who catches this and didn't know it, you can dial 20 followed by the 4 digit store number to call them without looking up the phone number...but who really knows store numbers anyway

Can you do this from any phone? Or does it have to be Guest Service/fitting room/TSC (can dial outside line)?

Not sure, only tried it in the pharmacy. If I happen to run to the checklanes tomorrow I may have to try it to check!

I forgot that the pharmacy can dial out. I did it from Guest Service once, but I haven't had a chance to test any other phone yet.

Wonder if Target Canada is open for Canada Day..

I'm sure they are, but they barely get any business because about 99% of the population of Canada comes to my store on Canadian holidays.

 

[V 42]

Oh god, I would tell that LOD how it is so bad...

I'd like to tell her what I said in my post, but that would get me fired. If I had a nickel for every time I heard complaints about her not understanding what it's like to actually be out on the floor...not just from myself, either!...I'd be rich...

 

[NoRedCards]

TTOTM - I can honestly say I have mixed emotions about you getting your behind fired.....I'm not sure whether to cry tears of joy, or scream because I'm so happy you finally got what was coming to you....I will say when you wanted to work, you were good, but since you'd rather goof off 97% of the time......Happy Trails!

 

[mrknownothing]

To that one ETL who communicates effectively excessively: If no one is responding, it's probably because they turned their walkies off so they wouldn't have to hear you. (Not that I would ever do this, but I have been tempted to on many occasions.)

To the dunce who made the schedule: If you're not going to schedule the electronics closer to actually close, you should make sure someone who knows electronics is scheduled until closing. And if you want me to cover, then give me some training so I'm not completely useless back there.

 

[Retail Girl]

To my ETL (who was the one who called me in to work):

Me: sure, I'm happy to come in...this makes it interesting since I will now be closing 6 nights in a row.
ETL: I don't know how you do it.

Seriously? You don't know how I do it??? I don't have much choice! Because I am half guest centered and half not guest centered in my scheduling, that means you approve this damn crazy schedule! I do it simply because I prefer to remain gainfully employed. I don't choose to work this crazy schedule. You are the one who keeps scheduling me like this! I'm not the crazy one this time! You are! If you wouldn't work this schedule, then maybe, just maybe, you have no right giving it to me!

 

[roger1roger]

To my ETL: Please stop micro-managing me. We just had a "what motivates YOU" meeting of ETLs/TLs and apparently you missed my answer of "autonomy". I manage to get my team's work done when you're not here ... I get less done when you're dogging my steps.

 

[3LetterDevil]

To that amazing pharmacy tech in Kansas, you saved my life and I hope you read this bc I threw out the paper I wrote your store number and name on...
My agency pharmacist, instead of calling a neighboring Target for help, dialed a random target in Kansas (like halfway across the country from us) and got you on the phone. Thanks so much for spending 10 minutes of your day helping guests and a team you've never met! A zillion virtual great team cards to you, sir!!!!

I wonder if this is something "new" they're being told....we had one call us about an inventory issue last week??? They couldn't get their invoices to apply & called us out of the blue. It was another store in our district, but nowhere NEAR us....

Floaters I've worked with have said I could call their home store any time I had a question and their team would help me, maybe it was something like that? Or someone there trained at your store? I think it would be really weird to annoy a random team with weird questions especially if not time sensitive...
I've just called the store I trained at with random annoying questions, which is what I intended to do, so I asked her to "dial 20 + store#" and get someone on the phone while I was with a guest... Instead of dialing the store number I gave her, she chose a random 4 digit number...... why.

Also, for anyone who catches this and didn't know it, you can dial 20 followed by the 4 digit store number to call them without looking up the phone number...but who really knows store numbers anyway

Tried this from our phones yesterday....it didn't work??? Then again, our phones haven't been working right lately (we can only answer 1 line on 1, we can answer all lines on another, and it's hit or miss on which lines work on the last one). I did it from the "hit or miss" one, I'll try it on the "good" one today and report back

 

[3LetterDevil]

To my ETL (who was the one who called me in to work):

Me: sure, I'm happy to come in...this makes it interesting since I will now be closing 6 nights in a row.
ETL: I don't know how you do it.

Seriously? You don't know how I do it??? I don't have much choice! Because I am half guest centered and half not guest centered in my scheduling, that means you approve this damn crazy schedule! I do it simply because I prefer to remain gainfully employed. I don't choose to work this crazy schedule. You are the one who keeps scheduling me like this! I'm not the crazy one this time! You are! If you wouldn't work this schedule, then maybe, just maybe, you have no right giving it to me!

I feel for you....I'M the one who's not a "team player", but who's the one who comes in almost EVERY time other TMs (who ARE considered "team players") calls off? ME!!!

 

[oath2order]

To that amazing pharmacy tech in Kansas, you saved my life and I hope you read this bc I threw out the paper I wrote your store number and name on...
My agency pharmacist, instead of calling a neighboring Target for help, dialed a random target in Kansas (like halfway across the country from us) and got you on the phone. Thanks so much for spending 10 minutes of your day helping guests and a team you've never met! A zillion virtual great team cards to you, sir!!!!

I wonder if this is something "new" they're being told....we had one call us about an inventory issue last week??? They couldn't get their invoices to apply & called us out of the blue. It was another store in our district, but nowhere NEAR us....

Floaters I've worked with have said I could call their home store any time I had a question and their team would help me, maybe it was something like that? Or someone there trained at your store? I think it would be really weird to annoy a random team with weird questions especially if not time sensitive...
I've just called the store I trained at with random annoying questions, which is what I intended to do, so I asked her to "dial 20 + store#" and get someone on the phone while I was with a guest... Instead of dialing the store number I gave her, she chose a random 4 digit number...... why.

Also, for anyone who catches this and didn't know it, you can dial 20 followed by the 4 digit store number to call them without looking up the phone number...but who really knows store numbers anyway

Tried this from our phones yesterday....it didn't work??? Then again, our phones haven't been working right lately (we can only answer 1 line on 1, we can answer all lines on another, and it's hit or miss on which lines work on the last one). I did it from the "hit or miss" one, I'll try it on the "good" one today and report back

Note to self try this

 

[PinkButterfly]

Ttotl....I realize you are the new TL for my team and although you are not my fave person, I do respect you. I do know how to do my job and I do not need to be micromanaged.

Ttotm...Who flips out every single time they realize I have worked 5 hours without a lunch. I know I have to take it before 6 hours so there is no need to remind me. If i go to lunch at 5 1/2 hours I am fine.

Ttosrtl....who takes forever to get up front to open the door in the morning..Do you think you could speed it up some? Or better yet stay up front around the time people will be coming in?? I know it annoys you when we ring the bell, but we wouldn't have to if you were there to let us in sooner. I really dont appreciate being 5 or ten or even 15 min late clocking in when I was there in plenty of time to make it to time clock on time.

Ttotm.....Would you stop gossiping all damn day and actually do something? I am surprised you still have a job bc you waste so much time.

 

[MissionStarlight]

Ttotm: Sorry trainee! I had no idea you were scheduled and I really hope you come back. Today was not a good day to train with me. Hell, it wasn't a good day to train with anyone. But you were great and did a great job and I hope the people I had to hand you off to did a good job showing you more of the ropes.

 

[Retail Girl]

To my entire damn store: the serious lack of communication is not cute or funny. If someone could just pass on communication just once, that would be great. I am tired of looking like an ass because no one fucking tells me anything. You can all suck it.

 

[BullseyeBabe]

To my entire damn store: the serious lack of communication is not cute or funny. If someone could just pass on communication just once, that would be great. I am tired of looking like an ass because no one fucking tells me anything. You can all suck it.

I just want to say I wish everyone in your store would realize how lucky they are to have you. That is all.

 

[salesfloor10]

To that one ETL: thanks for making yourself sound like the d**k you really are when I was trying to do the right thing for my team. I hope you are gone by 4th quarter.

To that one TM: I am at the end of my rope with you. You need to step up or ship out!

 

[mrknownothing]

To that one STL: I haven't met you yet or worked with you, but I hope you're one of the good ones.

To the Benefits Center: Why do you insist on wasting all that paper and postage (FOUR forever stamps?) to send me a benefits packet? I'm not even fucking eligible for anything.

 

[researchr]

TTOTM:

Since the Price Accuracy Pilot started you have not worked a single 11-4 shift like the rest of us.. you've been scheduled late evenings and earlier shifts like 830.. and full 8 hour shifts at that. How can you sit there and complain that we are leaving you the "hard" things when all you have to do is pretty much the backroom pull and push it when you come in.. YOU HAVE IT EASY... I'm breaking my back to try and finish in 5 hours the days I'm scheduled.. but God forbid you get a short shift.. the world will end! You have the nerve to come after me like you're the one mistreated.. when you're the one who's getting babied..

When my kids were little, my PATL would let me work 5:30pm to 11pm in the backroom doing any backroom clearance during the summer so I could be home during the day. It worked well because the rest of the team focused only on the floor. Maybe your team member who needs to work late could do that?

 

[ClearanceMaster]

TTOTM:

Since the Price Accuracy Pilot started you have not worked a single 11-4 shift like the rest of us.. you've been scheduled late evenings and earlier shifts like 830.. and full 8 hour shifts at that. How can you sit there and complain that we are leaving you the "hard" things when all you have to do is pretty much the backroom pull and push it when you come in.. YOU HAVE IT EASY... I'm breaking my back to try and finish in 5 hours the days I'm scheduled.. but God forbid you get a short shift.. the world will end! You have the nerve to come after me like you're the one mistreated.. when you're the one who's getting babied..

When my kids were little, my PATL would let me work 5:30pm to 11pm in the backroom doing any backroom clearance during the summer so I could be home during the day. It worked well because the rest of the team focused only on the floor. Maybe your team member who needs to work late could do that?

@researchr That is basically what my PATL is doing.. and this has been the ideal way for the rest of the team not to feel inferior.. but she goes to school and has a bf who is a GSTL. They drive an hour away to get to work and they insist on getting the same shifts so they can carpool. There is no way to please her so my TL only scheduled her twice next week and divided her extra shift she would give her between us who want to work.

Her availability is only 7a-330p. But she has to work those exact hours
And 230-1030 the whole shift only.
She can only work the 230-1030 if its her day off of school and her boyfriend is also working. And if all that wasnt bad enough she wants 32 hours a week now that its summer. Sometimes pricing only gets 60 hours a week and theres 3 of us.

I have open availability and "want" 40 hours but dont "expect" 40 hours. If shes gets 8 hour shifts every day she works that leaves me like 5 hour shift.. OF COURSE SHES GONNA GET A LOT OF WORK IF SHES WORKING THE MAJORITY OF THE HOURS... grr. So my TL trys to be fair and schedule her in POG to do revisions and whatnot and she complains because she is not in pricing. I tell my TL ill do the revisions to shut her up but she needs my availability in pricing for the Pilot... it is just so tiring dealing with it everyday.

There was a point my ETL actually talked with her and she walked out in the middle of her shift.. then was let back.. no corrective action or anything because "its hard on them because they drive an hour to work each day and we should be more caring of that" if anyone reads all of this you are a saint. And if you can come up with a way to fix it you are my savior.

 

[Noiinteam]

My head is spinning just reading this. One of them needs to go, or she needs to just shut up and take whatever hrs she gets.

 

[ClearanceMaster]

My head is spinning just reading this. One of them needs to go, or she needs to just shut up and take whatever hrs she gets.

Thank you for reading that. I think that is the only solution but my ETL doesnt back my TL up.. she was only given 16 hours on the new schedule but my ETL keyed her into salesfloor. (I will be hearing about that next time we work together) but I am happy me and the other tm got extra hours..

 

[Noiinteam]

Hopefully all will be well, especially if your ETL stays out of it and let's your TL run the show

 

[ClearanceMaster]

Yeah. I just dont see how someone with limited availability can demand hours that a TL is getting and get away with it.. when I have open availability and would work doubles/clopenings no questions asked and get 5 hour shifts (granted I usually pick up hours to get to 40)