MEGATHREAD 2018-2019 Store Modernization Megathread

[can't touch this]

Coming from another small woman: Bales are actually super easy, though. I avoided it for years because the guys always acted like it was hell on earth to make but it takes like 5 minutes, doesn't actually require much strength, allows me to shit-talk the dudes and my receiver always says my bales are the best. 😊

Not to mention in any situation where actual lifting of a bale would be needed (like if it were to miss the pallet while being ejected from the baler and tip onto the floor) then not even 4 hulking male bodybuilders could lift it. Those things weigh well over a ton.

 

[MavDog]

Does anyone know who the presentation experts report to? Is there no TL ? Do they report directly to an ETL?

One of the GM leaders focuses on inbound and the other does transitions.

 

[Frontlanegirl]

While I have stated I think this is a smart business move, let me give you a snapshot of my night last night:

Covered GS breaks/meal as no one else GS trained was scheduled
Ran drive-ups out when everyone showed up at once and the team was overwhelmed
Jumped into OPU/DU picks when they were dropping so fast the one TM scheduled couldn't keep up
Got everyone to their breaks on time
Overrode alcohol sales for one minor cashier at LEAST 20 times
Realized another minor was scheduled as my closer and fixed the issue; otherwise I would have had SCO only (and yes, we are told by our Leads/Leaders not to get on register unless one of them is up there to run the front. The second you do, you're called to GS, and you can't exactly abandon your line)
Went to GS more times than I could count to type in my auth code/answer questions/bring down the line (my closing GSTM is fairly new to that role)
Assisted guests with photo because (shocker) no one else was photo trained at all
Solved blinker issues by my very own self, only calling once to verify a price because it was over $20 discrepancy; all was accomplished via walkie
Called CSC re: broken register
Did all the things aforementioned newbie GSTM didn't after close so today's opener wouldn't come in to a disaster
Filled big baskets at the front of the store
Printed my breakout for tomorrow and realized there is no one to cover my meal tonight. Figured I'll have to punch out and eat at Starbucks so the SCO attendant can walk over and ask me questions (which they will do, at least a gazillion times; I've only been at this store for five months and wonder who TH, if anyone, trained them because I'm shocked at all they don't know vs. my old store)
Oh, and speedwove so I only had to call for backup once

If my store still had a jewelry boat, I'd have collapsed on it, given time. Alas.

Pretty much how my day goes when I am covering for the front end. Having the GSA to help with GS is needed. I was also assisting cashiers trying to find a price of an item a couple of times. Are all cashiers going to have a MyDevice with them? I swear minor are magnets to the people who are purchasing alcohol.

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

There are times I am really glad I am a small woman, because I know I won't be asked to do heavy lifting/bales. Dealing with bales is one of those times...

Actually everyone is expected to know and DO everything under modernization. If you are unable to do some of these tasks you may be replaced or let go I should say. If your the last to fill the bale and it needs one you better make the bale. If you have to constantly pull other team members from there tasks it's not really fair to them either.

We are to be jack of all trades and master of all trades.

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

For those who have asked

Got anymore? I need more details and info

 

[Frontlanegirl]

Could you imagine what the backroom must look like 🤪

I thought the same thing. Boxes all along one side of the store and then all along the other side. All the sales they are missing because of product sitting in those boxes.

 

[gsa4lyfe]

If it was always supposed to be flow doing it, why is it listed under "What's Different"? That implies a change, not a continuation of an existing standard.

Most likely to reiterate it because they’re aware it’s not flow who does it in every store.

 

[unknown]

Actually everyone is expected to know and DO everything under modernization. If you are unable to do some of these tasks you may be replaced or let go I should say. If your the last to fill the bale and it needs one you better make the bale. If you have to constantly pull other team members from there tasks it's not really fair to them either.

We are to be jack of all trades and master of all trades.

Cool. Cool. So, today Jean, instead of cashiering, we need you to throw the truck. What? You didn't apply for that. Um, modernization. We don't care that you are 75. Get on the truck or quit. But Target cares about individuals of all abilities. Lol. Now get on the truck.

 

[GreasyGary]

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I wonder how many more years they will keep sending signing and packages with "signing specialist" still written on it. I guess all that stuff can just be tossed as soon as it comes on now. You'd think that with Moderniization they could get that right after ten years.

Return to Sender - Moved, left no forwarding address.

 

[band_rules16]

Coming from another small woman: Bales are actually super easy, though. I avoided it for years because the guys always acted like it was hell on earth to make but it takes like 5 minutes, doesn't actually require much strength, allows me to shit-talk the dudes and my receiver always says my bales are the best. 😊

I always pair with the backroom or a market TM if I can, it's just easier to go with two. Plus I'm always worried that I haven't tied the cables right. That and you can have someone clear a path for you because the backroom is always a mess...

Don’t apologize for things beyond your control. It only serves to reinforce that it is the tms fault, not the fact hours are not there to do everything expected of them.

My TLs realize this. Maybe I'm just conditioned now to expect to be yelled at for not completing tasks. 😫 But they know that I'm a good worker and reassure me that I do a good job.

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Cool. Cool. So, today Jean, instead of cashiering, we need you to throw the truck. What? You didn't apply for that. Um, modernization. We don't care that you are 75. Get on the truck or quit. But Target cares about individuals of all abilities. Lol. Now get on the truck.

Yeah unfortunately... If you been reading this thread long enough some leaders have even said they have been told to weed out old, slow and fat people. That's because in order for modernization to actually work you need people to bust their arses at extreme pace to achieve the goals of this process which is to basically do everything and do it in a 4 hour shift. They are also under the impression that if they fire a slow or bad team member the next one that comes in the door will be amazing because the eventuality of getting $15 an hour.

 

[Black Sheep 214]

We are to be jack of all trades and master of all trades.

Corporate apparently thinks MacGyver works for (the dangling carrot of) $15 an hour...

 

[BackroomOG14]

Got anymore? I need more details and info

Nah, pulled from reddit

 

[BackroomOG14]

Adding team lead to hr? Strange

Some stores dont have ETL HR

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Corporate apparently thinks MacGyver works for (the dangling carrot of) $15 an hour...

The worst part is we are to do all that work of $15 with out even being $15 yet.

 

[Send me a sign]

Coming from another small woman: Bales are actually super easy, though. I avoided it for years because the guys always acted like it was hell on earth to make but it takes like 5 minutes, doesn't actually require much strength, allows me to shit-talk the dudes and my receiver always says my bales are the best. 😊

The tm that trained me on bales, told me she worked somewhere else where someone didn’t tie the cable right and it flew into their eye. Thanks to that motivational speech, I’ve never touched a bale again.

 

[unknown]

Yeah unfortunately... If you been reading this thread long enough some leaders have even said they have been told to weed out old, slow and fat people. That's because in order for modernization to actually work you need people to bust their arses at extreme pace to achieve the goals of this process which is to basically do everything and do it in a 4 hour shift. They are also under the impression that if they fire a slow or bad team member the next one that comes in the door will be amazing because the eventuality of getting $15 an hour.

Does anyone else find Target hypocritical? We value differences. Pictures of people in wheelchairs. But in ths real world, Target doesn't want those people. Clearly, someone in a wheelchair isnt unloading a truck.

 

[can't touch this]

So I’m seeing a lot of concerns regarding schedules conflicting with their childcare availability. When my store mgr at Michaels tried to explain to the district mgr I couldn’t switch to the new schedule because of my young kids, the dmgr responded in an email “If she wants to feed her kids, she needs to change her schedule”. 😡 I had 3 new offers the next week and the dm found herself in a “family way” shortly after with no baby daddy in sight, so she moved back out of state. Sweet, sweet Karma. I think this is why I come off so bitter about Targets new path, I’ve been down that lane before.

Someone I know was a former hourly team leader at a certain apparel retailer (duty-wise, essentially ETL/LOD/VM/GSTL in one). He enjoyed the job at first and it kept his pockets stuffed with that paper. His old district manager was a competent, easygoing guy who would show up, find something wrong and say, "So, what's going on here?" giving you a chance to explain before flipping out. Most of the time he'd reply "Oh okay gotcha, carry on then." He actually gave my friend his cell number and told him to send him a text anytime he needed something, 24/7. Well then said DM got snatched up by yet another retailer who offered him more paper for essentially the same job, he accepted and left. His replacement was a petty asshole who's probably a DTL at Target now. He visited a lot to bitch out my friend the manager for every goddamn thing, and made him do a bunch of arbitrary changes that he said were corporate's. And he cut payroll and tried to get the remaining team members to do three times the amount of work with less hours. Lots of people quit, etc and everybody was losing their fucking minds. Then he quit. You know, familiar story.

In my friend's case he just told me last week that his old DM called him and is trying to recruit him into a job at the company he's at now, and it's going to be phat bread if he accepts and he probably will. So I guess it worked out in the end.

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Does anyone else find Target hypocritical? We value differences. Pictures of people in wheelchairs. But in ths real world, Target doesn't want those people. Clearly, someone in a wheelchair isnt unloading a truck.

Walmart got in hot water recently telling door greeters there job description is changing and they had to do alot more lifting, walking and standing. Tons of them are elderly or disabled. Word got out to the media that lots of disabled people were gonna lose their jobs and low and behold Walmart magically found a job for them at self checkout. Alot of those people were and are there 5 to 10 plus years. I feel Target is toeing this line very closely if not already over it.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

The tm that trained me on bales, told me she worked somewhere else where someone didn’t tie the cable right and it flew into their eye. Thanks to that motivational speech, I’ve never touched a bale again.

Yikes!

I assume they lost the eye??

 

[busyzoningtoys]

Yikes!

I assume they lost the eye??

You are required to wear gloves and safety glasses when making a bale.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

You are required to wear gloves and safety glasses when making a bale.

I've never seen anyone do either of these things while making a cardboard bale

 

[ntauctions]

You are required to wear gloves and safety glasses when making a bale.

Aren't you also required to have two people clean up every spill? One to redirect guests and another wearing goggles, apron and gloves?

 

[POGBRO2000]

POG BRO HERE. POG BRO CONCERNED. POG BRO WANT MORE INFO.

So, am I to believe there is only one "presentation expert," or are there multiple presentation experts that are split by area? How and who is responsible for something like the seasonal sets getting done?

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Aren't you also required to have two people clean up every spill? One to redirect guests and another wearing goggles, apron and gloves?

Also not supposed to block fire exits with unfinished freight. Not supposed to make normal team members clean up chemical or human waste spills. Ect. Target doesn't care till someone gets hurt than they blame the team member for not doing it correctly even if instructed by a leader to do so.

Most of the time if it's like our baler there is never gloves or glasses by the baler no matter who you inform.