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This is the worst month for sales forecast. Payroll is bare minimum cause sales are light. Happens every year.
Really 268k in sales this past Saturday February 9th is not light.This is the worst month for sales forecast. Payroll is bare minimum cause sales are light. Happens every year.
We are ULV with IGS, and we have opening GSA, SCO, and IGS. We get a cart attendant/cashier/drive up person around noon weekdays. Weekends it is the same time, but carts/drive up only (unless needed for backup).
Our sco is always the only registers open in the morning for the first hour or two no matter what time of year it is. And cart attendants only work at night. B volume, and highest volume of 3 stores in the area. 🤷🏽♀️Ok, so are hour cuts THAT bad? My store has slashed front end hours to the bone. The 1 GS TM is supposed to do the DriveUp orders and Bullseye's Playground. We're having only SCO open for at least the first hour of the day, including weekends. The seniors and soccer Moms aren't happy to have to both wait in line, and then scan and bag their purchases. And CAs don't come in until afternoon when we run out of carts by late morning.
I don't get it. My store comped up over 5% over last year.
Is this a company trend, or is my store syphoning front end hours to support elsewhere in the store.
I think I would quit if we went to IGS.IGS isn't so bad. I'd imagine being very bored (and isolated) in a traditional GS setting.
I think I would quit if we went to IGS.
To each their own 🙂
YesYou have TMs who started after Christmas?
I've seen AFTER Christmas. Maybe they were hired prior but sure didn't start prior AND they got preferred hours, many of which they threw on swap shift sheet because they really are only here for the discount (retirees and Moms with small children starting preschool, etc. who really don't WANT the hours to start with).After no. The week before Christmas? Yes. Man, they're bad. Who the fuck had time to train them then? Nobody and it shows. They keep getting hours though. Nevermind they can't figure out that if an item doesn't have a location on the floor in the Zebra, you probably shouldn't fucking put it out on the floor.
We are 2 weeks in to the new fiscal year and quarter.Literally they cut hours because it's the end of the fiscal quarter and they have to make up for the holidays. All those extra seasonal idiot's paychecks have to come from somewhere,
oof my bWe are 2 weeks in to the new fiscal year and quarter.
It's pretty tough to tell your TMs that their hours are cut because "it's slow" when their workloads haven't been cut, and they're still expected to get the same amount done with less hours. When now they're walking into backlog from days before, stocking shelves in areas that haven't been zoned in days, digging for pick items in mountainous RTS carts, etc. We have MORE POG/VMG workload than during the holidays, and not even enough hours to work the freight or help the guests.
It doesn't go over well when you tell TMs their hours are cut, their workload tripled, and then tell them what a great year we had at huddle, and how we're still comping up in sales right now.
I "get" why Target does it, but by not investing enough payroll to run the teams properly and keep TMs engaged with the job, they're really undercutting this whole "business owner" thing they're trying to roll out to the TMs, aren't they?
It's a big reason we're moving to middle of the day shifts, too, so we can continue to cut back hours.
We're not even on op model yet, and the last two weeks have been horrible.
No check lanes except self open until at least 10am, HL/SL TMs starting between 9am-noon and leaving before 9pm with only one closer.
Every single day has been nothing but early morning and late night calls for back up cashiers, and ETLs screaming when no one answers those or the call boxes without apparently realizing there's NO ONE in the building, including TLs. Well, except some Flow TMs that got moved to GM. Not a single one of which is cashier trained, and about half of which don't speak English.
I'm scheduled for 4 hours one day a week. Usually they end up doing Saturday of one week and Sunday of the following. I end up having about 2 weeks off in between shifts 🙁
Well, it sounds like you work at my store, and you probably don't, if that tells you anything.Ok, so are hour cuts THAT bad? My store has slashed front end hours to the bone. The 1 GS TM is supposed to do the DriveUp orders and Bullseye's Playground. We're having only SCO open for at least the first hour of the day, including weekends. The seniors and soccer Moms aren't happy to have to both wait in line, and then scan and bag their purchases. And CAs don't come in until afternoon when we run out of carts by late morning.
I don't get it. My store comped up over 5% over last year.
Is this a company trend, or is my store syphoning front end hours to support elsewhere in the store.
And may I add, those are the exact same team members that lose ZEBRAs or have them laying on the floor and a guest finds it and hands it over to me. That's why I never share my zebra with them. And when I do, I make sure I log out of all the apps, and remove the battery and restart.After no. The week before Christmas? Yes. Man, they're bad. Who the fuck had time to train them then? Nobody and it shows. They keep getting hours though. Nevermind they can't figure out that if an item doesn't have a location on the floor in the Zebra, you probably shouldn't fucking put it out on the floor.
I wish my store had that type of enforcement. Unfortunately at my store, these types walking around on their phone with earphones are getting developed into leads. 😠Yikes. Only one person on my team has 4 hours a week and that’s obviously because he’s always dicking around on his damn phone and works slow AF. To cut you to 4 hours a week without any performance issues is p hardcore fam.
I wish my store had that type of enforcement. Unfortunately at my store, these types walking around on their phone with earphones are getting developed into leads. 😠