Just need to get this out where someone else can give feedback, snide remarks, feel better about their day and maybe get some sleep afterward.
Note: this is basic background
9+ years ago
Receiver quit. I applied and got the offer.
Went out to train and on the second day was called back to home store because they had to have a receiver. Had the basics of checking in vendors. Never got to finish "formal" training.
Also never got the grasp of going to your TL when you have a question still don't because they don't know how to do the position
Started teaching myself how to do what a receiver is supposed to do, based on the ever loved Workbench
ETL-LOG quit before being asked to leave.
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New ETL-LOG comes in. Still not sure if I was doing things right or wrong, but I got told as long as I kept up with the information on Workbench I would be ok.
Continued doing what I thought receivers did, called out other tms for not following "best practices" and often heard "we don't do it that way here, we do it the Txxx way". Kept living and enjoying life while also finding out a little more about some health problems that I have.
I think I am doing okay.
ETL-LOG - goes elsewhere.
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Third ETL-LOG comes in,they have been with Bullseye and give me a couple of pointers but in general, I was left to my own devices.
Get told that I need to start communicating more with my TL and less with the execs. (the execs were the only ones that I really communicated with before, heck I didn't know better)
ETL-LOG is sent to another store (honestly think the STL did not like the person)
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Two more ETL-LOG come through, fresh out of Target college.
Things start going weird because suddenly I'm not doing "it" right.
The area isn't perfect, MIRs aren't being done right. Questions start getting asked about how I've been in the position so long and I don't seem to know how to do things right.
Of course
both of those ETL-LOGs are gone.
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Current day -
Sixth ETL-LOG comes in, in not so many words tells me that the store I work in is broken because we don't do things right.
Get counseling about the fact that area isn't to standard on cleanliness along with my lack of performance. Get told that the desk is too cluttered and I need to get it to planogram. (never have seen one)
Side note: some of the health issues have been figured out ADHD, Extreme anxiety and of course the ever popular depression that makes up the combination have been diagnosed etc
Now we are to this past week
Go to walk with the ETL-LOG before leaving.....
Get told that they have been working 85+ hours every week since they came to this store, doesn't understand why I can't get things done like the rest of the district receivers (because the ETL-LOG had been to a meeting recently and I was the only one that couldn't get stuff done right) and why wasn't everything done even though I was out sick.
Folks, I am nowhere near perfect, and have never claimed to be.
But darn it don't make it my fault that you came to this store and you are unhappy.
Yes, the store is broken when it comes to process. Don't fuss at me because I can't fix it. I can only fix me. Show me the right way to do things so that I can get it right and make you look all perfect again.
Telling me to just fix it doesn't work. Tearing a team member to pieces at the end of the day doesn't make it better.
Sit down and talk TO me, not at me, explain how it should be done because in the end when you educate a tm they have a better understanding as to why these things are so important to you and take a better look at the big picture.
Now that I have that out of the way...
* tosses the soap box in the corner and walks away*
Folks, I had to get this out of my mind so that I can hopefully get some restful sleep. My nights have been filled with bad dreams and upset stomach