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TTOG making a Target run with your toddler: Good for you, Mom! Seriously, making grocery shopping a fun learning time for your young son is so great to see, instead of a kid mesmerized by your phone or playing "let's drop Goldfish crackers on the floor." By using his interest in getting some...

Is the *request* because of a change in the store's needs? For instance, when our truck days changed, a bunch of us where "asked," meaning "expected," to change our schedules to match. However, when we had the DBO model and two long-term DBO TMs who'd hired in for work that didn't require...

These posts make me apprehensive about the remodel starting in a few weeks. I'm not part of the overnight team, so won't be so directly affected. But when they can't send regular ISM on time, how are they going to manage sending remodel fixtures on time?

Don't know what it was, but I heard a conversation over walkie recently between an ETL and the SD about some metric being a problem multiple days in a row and the ETL said they knew it had been resolved the day before. Yet it was showing up again as being red. That makes me think there might be...

I do pick up a zebra and an extra battery on my way upstairs to the break room. My zebra's battery never lasts the whole shift and it's usually running low by the time I take lunch. Leaving the extra battery in my locker and then dropping off the depleted one on my way back from lunch works...

So I guess completing the training when it was overdue wasn't such a big deal.

When I was the equivalent of a TL at a bookstore a long time ago, I found that actually working alongside my team, one at a time, was effective at demonstrating the way things should be done. Plus it gave me an opportunity to get to know them because we could chat a little while working. Then...

Wow, that must have been a lot of extra weight because it seems like those shelves are pretty heavy duty. :(

Anyone else thinking all those new outrigger signs make for a cluttered look? Maybe it just takes a while to get used to them, but I think it makes the store look like a warehouse store.

Yeah, I wish Target was more like what it was when I started. Or when we had DBO. These days, it's not fun at all. Not sure how widespread the boycott is (over DEI), but my store seems to have been hit pretty hard. Some days, there's a fairly full parking lot, but other days, it's pretty dead...

Very common occurrence at my store that a TM comes up the stairs, clocks in and then takes care of coat/lunch/filling water bottle/chitchat/whatever. Reverse upon clocking out: collect belongings then clock out. Same for lunches. My orientation was a lot of years ago but I'm still old school...

I think it's good to keep in mind that intelligence and ability to understand and communicate are different things. Brad may very well be of average or even above intelligence, but is hampered by his inability to pick up on social cues and use language the way most of us do. Also, there are...

Not sure it was ever against the rules at my store. (Last remodel, Food Ave went away and we didn't get anything to replace it - the area is used now to keep OPU orders ready to go.) But other than not having to trudge up the stairs to the break room, it wasn't a very nice place for breaks - the...

Much more flexible in my state. There's one TM who helps with ad on Sundays; she takes her lunch really early and then takes her break later. I think she goes to a nearby McDonald's on her lunch to pick up food, then zaps what's left in the microwave and eats it on her break. I typically take...

These are hilarious. Is this task back state-side again? Seems like when it was farmed out (to India?), some of the shelf labels were just bizarre. These aren't exactly correct, at least from the vendor's point of view, but at least they're funny.