Recent content by DratiniMaster

Right now my store has one Closing expert who comes in at around 4/5, and then one GM DBO will work a later shift (1-9) to do their routine and then help the closer with zone. Our store closes at 10. All the rest of GM is gone by 6.

You may want to speak to your ETL and SD about why they would bench you but not give you placement for positions that fall under your skill set. If you've been on the bench one year and your desired lead position has opened up twice then it seems like 2 things to me 1. Your executive team wants...

Seems to be the case for my district as well. My stores' top ETL has been there since the store opened, but the young guns seem to always move stores/departments.

Honestly if your SD is ready for you to start running the department then you need to start applying for leadership positions in the store or district. Best thing is to partner with your ETL about development and see where things go, they might start putting you in charge of some projects or...

Yes, the comment I replied to was asking if there were any other terms used for zoning in particular.

Our new Group VP sent out an expectations email the other week and referred to it as "zoning". I'm under the impression zoning is THE term if you're using Target vocabulary

At my store we call it abandoned. I worked at another store in town and they call it reshop/stray.

Not sure if we were a testing area, but last summer when org changes were made, all smaller volume stores in my district that had HR TLs had the position eliminated and replaced with an HR ETL. From my understanding the HRTL experiment proved not to work since that work center is SO high volume...

Hours for my district were really bad for the first week of March.

This is perfect, thank you so much for your time!

Hello all! For the past 7-8 months I have been developing for a TL position and have been in the "pipeline" at my store. After the holidays my SD and HR ETL said they wanted to get me on our store's bench for future placement, and my first interview is at the end of this month. I'm a little...